Mike Johnson’s calling to serve as House Speaker reportedly came from the heavens.
Appearing as the keynote speaker during Tuesday night’s award fete for the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) at the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C., the newly appointed speaker from Louisiana opened up about his direct channel to God and how he was directed to become the next speaker after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was unceremoniously sacked.
“Look, I’m a Southern Baptist, I don’t wanna get too spooky on you,” he told attendees who apparently chuckled, according to Rolling Stone. “But, you know, the Lord speaks to your heart.”
Johnson explained how he was readying to prepare for his “Red Sea moment”.
Apparently he assumed that he was talking in an intimate, media-free setting at the NACL, an organization said to be aiming to push for right-wing fundamentalism to be adopted into law.
As Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson points out, he may have been oblivious that his speech was being recorded and streamed on the NACL Facebook page.
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