It turns out that the Bible isn’t actually a clear guide to “any issue under the sun.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson says that when he’s asked what he thinks about an issue, he replies, “‘Well, go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it.’ That’s my worldview.”
That quote is less illuminating than many people think. The Bible says a great deal about a great number of subjects, but it is open to interpretation on many and silent on many more. I know Democrats who also root their political philosophy in the Bible. I’m a Never Trump evangelical conservative and I, too, look to Scripture to guide my mind and heart.Johnson and I have such similar religious convictions that we once worked together at the same Christian law firm.
Which brings us back to Johnson’s refusal to answer a question about the effort to overturn the 2020 election. There is a reason that effort is called the Big Lie. It was one of the most comprehensively and transparently dishonest political movements in American history. And Johnson was in the middle of it. He helped mobilize Republican support for Texas’ utterly frivolous lawsuit to overturn the Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin elections.
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