Another anti-LGBTQ+ connection for House Speaker Mike Johnson has come to light: He's on the board of a right-wing Christian publishing house whose founder and CEO has called mpox a punishment for being gay, suggested Barack Obama could be the Antichrist, and lamented that condemning homosexuality is no longer socially acceptable.
Comfort, a minister and evangelist, has a history of radically anti-LGBTQ+ stances, as detailed in the Politico article. In narrating a Living Waters video on the mpox - formerly known as monkeypox - outbreak last year, he posited that it was a 'gay disease,' saying those who engage in gay sex will find 'in their own bodies the inevitable and appropriate penalty for their wrongdoing.'
Comfort has also expressed disappointment that condemning homosexuality is no longer socially acceptable. In a recent article on the Living Waters website, he wrote, 'There was a time in America when we could say these things without any real repercussions. But times have radically changed.' He has also suggested that Barack Obama could be the Antichrist and speculated on the connection between the Israel-Hamas war and the coming of the Antichrist.
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