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Video shows House speaker Mike Johnson attending PURITY ball with then-13-year-old daughter in 'prom-like' ritual where teenage girls vow to abstain from sex until marriage
The Daily Mail ^ | 23 Dec 2023 | Will Potter

Posted on 12/23/2023 9:30:45 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

House Speaker Mike Johnson was profiled in a German news segment attending a 'purity ball' with his teenage daughter, in a bizarre prom-like ritual where she was made to take a vow of abstinence.

Johnson, 51, and his then-13-year-old daughter, Hannah, were seen in unearthed n-tv news footage from 2015 preparing for the controversial dance, as a reporter remarks that it 'looks like a wedding.'

'But they are not bride and groom - rather father and... daughter,' the reporter adds, with Johnson seen in a black tuxedo and his young daughter in a white dress. The segment was first reported by ABC News.

The lawmaker's attendance at the religious event comes after he raised eyebrows following his surprise appointment as Speaker in October, as he has been forced to defend statements including calling same-sex marriage 'the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy.'

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To: JudyinCanada

The issue isn’t being smart about sexual activity and not even waiting until marriage.

Its the weird public virtue signaling ceremony.


121 posted on 12/23/2023 1:26:27 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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To: Fuzz

Perhaps they thought the ceremony would catch on, and many fathers would step up and organize similar gatherings, and it may even result in a movement to do things the way God intended to begin with! Maybe it’s not virtue signaling at all.


122 posted on 12/23/2023 1:29:18 PM PST by JudyinCanada (America's enemies want you to "trust the plan." Fight in reality, not the rabbit holes.)
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To: JudyinCanada

It’s one of the most virtue signaling thing I’ve ever heard of.


123 posted on 12/23/2023 1:31:17 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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To: JudyinCanada

If you read the article, we didn’t do this back in the day. This became popular with certain Christian denominations in the past few decades.


124 posted on 12/23/2023 1:44:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Perhaps it became popular out of a need.

Necessity is the mother of invention. I’m thinking that parents and church groups probably wanted to do something that would help young people get back to God’s ways.


125 posted on 12/23/2023 1:50:10 PM PST by JudyinCanada (America's enemies want you to "trust the plan." Fight in reality, not the rabbit holes.)
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To: JudyinCanada

This sort of virtue signaling ceremony isn’t the right way to do it.


126 posted on 12/23/2023 1:52:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Prince Caspian
"...in a bizarre prom-like ritual where she was made to take a vow of abstinence. Purity and vows of abstinence. Yes, very "bizarre" indeed. And she was "made" to take it, too. Obviously coerced."

Oh the horror! The utter horror that Mike's daughter won't likely grow up to be a c*m catching, STD plagued hoebag with four kids by twelve different guys, stuck on the dole forever. The horror!

127 posted on 12/23/2023 1:57:25 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

A prom like dance at 13 stops that how?


128 posted on 12/23/2023 2:02:00 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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To: Fuzz

I didn’t say it would. But I think folks who attend such events don’t do just that and nothing else to try to keep their kids on the straight and narrow. At least it’s some kind of pushback against the destructive, leftist filth being poured over young people in America from every angle.


129 posted on 12/23/2023 2:06:21 PM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Some of the worst things in the world find their roots in promiscuity. Poverty, broken relationships, broken homes, weak and/or non-existent marriages, fatherless homes, etc. which all also commonly lead to numerous other societal problems.


130 posted on 12/23/2023 2:08:52 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: MinorityRepublican

How do you know? Maybe it’s not what you would do, but how do you know what effect it has had? For all you know, there may be many of those young ladies who quietly honored that pledge. What’s wrong with that? You really have no right whatsoever to say it isn’t right. You only have the right to not partake if you don’t agree.


131 posted on 12/23/2023 2:09:15 PM PST by JudyinCanada (America's enemies want you to "trust the plan." Fight in reality, not the rabbit holes.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

AND????? SO????


132 posted on 12/23/2023 2:12:30 PM PST by ZULU (DUMP RONA ROMNEY MCDANIELS!!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Ut oh, they got him now. No way they will let this go. Smh

I feel bad for his daughter. Being used in a hit piece like this. Is that all they got?


133 posted on 12/23/2023 2:13:30 PM PST by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ll agree with you to this extent: These types of events are no replacement for not only knowing what to believe and told to believe - but teaching them making sure they know *why* to believe it. “checklist morals” are not an effective means of teaching morals.

To repeat what was said above: Some of the worst things in the world find their roots in promiscuity. Poverty, broken relationships, broken homes, weak and/or non-existent marriages, fatherless homes, etc. which all also commonly lead to numerous other societal problems.

And accepting some perversions which what has lead to the acceptance of others - if promiscuity was not first accepted, neither are other things we are now seeing as increasingly acceptable - such as taking toddlers and elementary age kids to strip shows and having them put money down the underwear of the strippers while the parents look on in amusement even filming and sharing it on their social media. We didn’t get there without going to the other places first.


134 posted on 12/23/2023 2:14:16 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: JudyinCanada

No right to say it isn’t right? That’s the majority of the posts on FR. 😁


135 posted on 12/23/2023 2:19:23 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
It might have been the first time it was called that but simalar things happened before then as well.

Look, we know that you hate the idea of men who are active fathers because then their daughters don't tend to drop their drawers for porn star sex and end up getting abortions. And dead babies are just the coolest but you are just going to have to live with the fact that some fathers are going to be involved dads.

Accept it and move on with your pathetic life eating crumbs that fall from your DemonRAT master's table.

136 posted on 12/23/2023 2:20:49 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
OMG Back in the early 70’s i had a girlfriend from my church(Lutheran)who told me early one she would remain pure till marriage. i gave her that respect.
137 posted on 12/23/2023 3:30:04 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can’t imagine anything more offensive to a pedophile than the thought of 13 year old girls pledging chastity until marriage. That explains the outrage of these lunatics to these father daughter dances.

BTW where is the Leftist outrage towards Palestinian/Muslim Fathers who have their daughter’s genitalia mutilated so that they CAN’T experience sexual pleasure? Why no stories about THAT?


138 posted on 12/23/2023 5:07:59 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

So, no pedophile evangelicals?


139 posted on 12/23/2023 5:12:15 PM PST by Fuzz (. )
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To: Fuzz

“A prom like dance at 13 stops that how?”

I’m guessing you don’t have any daughters. The dances let the daughters of these men know what is expected of them rather than the media messages normalizing promiscuity. I don’t know how effective this is but even if it is 10%, isn’t that a good thing?


140 posted on 12/23/2023 5:15:41 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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