"House Speaker Mike Johnson's Controversial Past and Political Influence"

Before entering politics, House Speaker Mike Johnson collaborated with Exodus International, an anti-gay conversion therapy group, from 2006 to 2010. Johnson, who worked as an attorney for the Alliance Defense Fund (now Alliance Defending Freedom), provided legal advice and partnered with Exodus to organize an annual anti-gay event aimed at teenagers. The event, known as the "Day of Truth," sought to counter the "Day of Silence" and promote the idea that homosexuality could be changed through religious and counseling methods. Conversion therapy has been widely discredited and condemned by major medical institutions.