ABC News Wednesday published a hit piece against House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-LA, for encouraging his then-minor daughter to remain abstinent back in 2015.
“Years before Mike Johnson would ascend to No. 2 in the presidential line of succession, a German TV news outlet profiled the future speaker of the House and his then-teenage daughter,” wrote the controversial article’s author Will Steakin:
“This looks like a wedding,” a news reporter says in German in a 2015 n-tv news segment that was unearthed by ABC News. “But they are not bride and groom — but rather father and … daughter,” the reporter adds, referring to Johnson and his then-13-year-old daughter, Hannah.
Steakin used negative language to describe the “purity ball” that took place one year before the now-Speaker was first elected to Congress.
The ABC News reporter called the father-daughter dinner “a controversial formal dance event, popular among some conservative Christians, that gained notoriety in the early 2000s.”
He went on to claim that pro-purity events have garnered criticism “that the practice places too much of a burden on young women” and “accusations that the balls themselves objectify young girls.”
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