House Speaker Mike Johnson was once the dean of a Christian law school. It never opened its doors

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The Marriage and Conscience Act, which he sponsored as a freshman state representative in 2015, would have effectively blocked Louisiana from punishing business owners and workers who discriminated against gay couples, so long as it was for religious reasons -- similar to arguments invoked during the Civil Rights era against interracial marriage.
53% : They implemented policies that restricted academic freedoms, including the potential firing of instructors whose curriculum touched upon sexual morality or anything contradictory to the Bible.
46% : He also wrote a semi-regular guest column in the Shreveport Times, where his defenses of "religious liberty" included stridently anti-gay rhetoric, including a prediction that same-sex marriage would be a "dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.""If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group.
43% : In 2004, he represented the Louisiana Family Forum in opposing a case filed by gay rights supporters who sought to block a voter-approved state constitutional amendment that prohibited "civil unions" -- a legal precursor to same-sex marriage -- and codified marriage as between one man and one woman.
38% : In 2004, Johnson and the ADF filed suit, seeking to overturn a New Orleans law that allowed same-sex partners of city workers to receive health benefits, which a judge rejected.
22% : "Another column lamented the Supreme Court's decision in 2004 to overturn a Texas law that outlawed same-sex intimacy, which Johnson referred to as "deviate sexual intercourse.

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