With his speakership already collapsing, Mike Johnson resorts to bashing gay high schoolers

With his speakership already collapsing, Mike Johnson resorts to bashing gay high schoolers

Briefly

"1 in 4 high school students identifies as something other than straight," Johnson frets in the email. "What are they being taught in school?"

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Mike Johnson says 'depraved' America deserves God's wrath. As supposed evidence, he cites the rise of LGBTQ youth - the fact, Johnson lamented, that "one-in-four high school students identifies as something other than straight."

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Johnson appears to be referencing 2021 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says 25.7% of high school students don't identify as straight. Of those, 3.2% identify as gay or lesbian, 11.9% identifier as bisexual and 9% identify as something else, or are questioning.

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