S/V Sundance: What exactly are “18th-century values”?

Friday, November 3, 2023

What exactly are “18th-century values”?

Faith,

It seems like every day, we learn more about MAGA GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson's extremist views.

And we recently got a term that ties a bunch of them together in a neat (and horrifying) little bow.

In 2013, in front of an anti-abortion rights group, Johnson said the Founding Fathers "told us that if we didn't maintain those 18th-century values, that the republic would not stand, and this is the condition we find ourselves in today."

Eighteenth-century values? Really? No wonder he's…

Blamed school shootings on an "amoral society" fostered in the 1960s and 1970s by "no-fault divorce laws," "radical feminism," and Roe v. Wade
Said abortion providers should be sentenced to hard labor now that Roe is gone
Called marriage equality a "dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic"
Claimed same-sex relationships are "unnatural" and "harmful" and teamed up with an anti-LGBTQ+ group providing so-called "conversion therapy"
Denied that the Constitution provides for the separation of church and state

Faith, this guy is way, way outside the mainstream. No wonder House Republicans picked him to represent them. But he clearly doesn't belong anywhere near any position of authority. So we've got to use our power in our democracy to speak out — and to vote them out.

Add your name to say you reject Speaker Mike Johnson's extremism and you're all-in to kick him and his fellow MAGA Republicans out of power.

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Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth