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Rolling Stone Blasted Over Report Mocking Mike Johnson for What He Did to Protect His Son From Porn

Since Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected speaker of the House, the left has demonized him as a religious extremist. His Christian faith has put him at odds with the Democratic Party’s positions on abortion, LGBTQ issues, gender, and other matters, irking the left. The media and liberal figures just don’t know what to do with Christians who actually live out their faith, as seen with their reaction to former VP Mike Pence for refusing to dine alone with a woman who is not his wife. The attempt to mock him for it lasted until The New York Times conducted a survey and found Americans actually agree with him.

So we shouldn’t be surprised to see the latest attack on Johnson for trying to protect his son from pornography and its harmful effects on adolescents.

The story revisited a clip of Johnson telling an audience at the Cypress Baptist Church in Louisiana that he and his son use Covenant Eyes, a subscription-based software program to hold each other accountable for content they view on the internet. 

In the piece misleadingly headlined, “Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video,” Rolling Stone complains of the "creepy Big Brother-ness of it all," and claims to be concerned about how his devices could be "compromised" by the app. The author then goes on to criticize him as a "faith-obsessed, election-denying, far-right Christian nationalist." 

Needless to say, X users blasted the story: