Speaker Johnson is Pro-Life Today After Being Born to Teenage Parents Who Chose Life
“I’m a living example of faithfulness. … They just trusted God.”
Over the last few weeks, the establishment media has given newly elected Republican Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson of Louisiana a shakedown.
However, he’s been well known for some time among pro-family, conservative circles, as recently noted by the Family Research Council’s Suzanne Bowdey.
As left-leaning Politico rightly reported, Johnson is “a social conservative’s conservative,” but Bowdey adds that “more than that, he’s a man who deeply loves God and this country.”
She notes that FRC President Tony Perkins met Johnson over twenty years ago when the latter was serving in the Louisiana state legislature and the pair collaborated on a significant bill that would become one of the nation’s first laws on abortion clinic regulation.
In an interview with Perkins a few years ago, Johnson expressed how the FRC head and others had influenced his pursuit of morality through governance because they “did it right and did it well, and they followed the Lord first.”
As he also touched upon during his House speech following his surprise election last month, Johnson gives credit for his career to his God-fearing parents.
“I was blessed,” he told Perkins at the time. “I was raised in a Christian household, and my parents — I was actually the conception of a teenage pregnancy my parents’ junior year in high school. And they dropped out, decided to have me, and keep me. And that’s why I’m so pro-life today. I’m a living example of faithfulness. … They just trusted God.”
His parents worked hard to support their children and Johnson does not have “any memory of not being a Christian.”
“I got baptized in a horse trough out behind our old country church in northwest Louisiana,” he continued. “And I was just raised to know and understand and believe that faith is very real. And it was just part of the fabric of our family, and who we are.”
Let us pray for our new speaker and lawmakers in the House and across the country, that they would fear the Lord in all their ways and that we would once again become a nation that trusts in Him and follows His ways.