Mike Johnson opposes same-sex marriage and has a long record of extreme, anti-gay rhetoric. “Society cannot give its stamp of approval to such a dangerous lifestyle. If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group,” he wrote in a 2004 editorial in support of a Louisiana amendment banning same-sex marriage. “Polygamists, polyamorists, pedophiles, and others will be next in line to claim equal protection. They already are. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet.” In a 2003 July op-ed, Johnson wrote that “States have many legitimate grounds to proscribe same-sex deviate sexual intercourse.” And in a 2004 column, Johnson predicted same-sex marriage might doom America. “Experts project that homosexual marriage is the dark harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy that could doom even the strongest republic.”