Rolling Stone tries to attack Speaker Johnson for his commitment against porn, but the joke's on mag: 'Normal Christian dad'

Rolling Stone is the latest media outlet to vilify House Speaker Mike Johnson for his Christian faith.

Over the weekend, the magazine published a story highlighting Johnson's commitment not to consume pornography, an ethical conviction rooted in his faith. The outlet focused on a clip of Johnson speaking at a church conference last year, where he explained that he and his son use Covenant Eyes, accountability software for people who do not want to consume pornography.

Johnson said he and his son — who at the time was 17 years old — are "accountability partners."

In the clip, Johnson explained:

It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it. It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He's 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.

The story, which generated viral attention on social media, caused people to mock Johnson as weird, creepy, and perverted.

Aside from Rolling Stone's framing of the story — claiming Johnson and his son "monitor each other's porn intake," which is false because the software's purpose is to hold each other accountable to avoid consuming pornographic material — this latest attempt to use Johnson's faith to attack him will "backfire," according to sociologist Samuel Perry.

"Of all the things Mike Johnson may promote, Christian antiporn accountability software may sound [fundamentalist] & weird to outsiders, but it's both mainstream & commonsense for folks who believe porn is cancer & addiction is rampant," Perry said.

He explained that "stuff like this backfires" because it "just makes Johnson look like [a] normal Christian dad, not [a] culture warring extremist."

After all, is it really a bad look that Johnson lives in accordance with the Christian ethics that he professes and holds his son to the same standard that he applies to himself?

No. Most cultures describe that type of man as a good father.

Indeed, Johnson helping mature his son into a man not handicapped by a pornography addiction is simply consistent with basic Christian ethics, according to Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor Andrew Walker.

"Rolling Stone discovers that Christians are to pursue holiness and purity and to encourage one another in good works through accountability and discipleship. Hard-hitting investigatory journalisming," Walker mocked.

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