Rep. Johnson promotes faith-based platform in Turkey Creek

TURKEY CREEK — If elected U.S. Congressman for Louisiana’s 4th Congressional District in November, Mike Johnson would want to bring religion and morality back to Washington D.C., and he would plan on doing that by standing up for the people’s constitutional rights.
The 4th Congressional District is made up of nine Louisiana parishes that stretch from Bossier Parish all the way to Evangeline. But, even with the cultural differences that exist between the northern most part of La. and its central area, Johnson is certain that the values are the same.
During a recent campaign stop the current Louisiana Representative for District 8 made to Turkey Creek, he said, “There is a big cultural divide between North Bossier and Ville Platte, but the neat thing about that is, the people’s values are the same. They believe in God, country, hard work, and their second amendment rights, and they all recognize that those things are in jeopardy right now. They want to send someone to Washington who knows that, and who will fight for those values, and that’s what I have been doing.”
Johnson has worked for the last two decades as an attorney specializing in constitutional law. While practicing law the Shreveport native says he has “worked to defend religious freedoms such as the sanctity of life and the sanctity of marriage.”
It is those fundamental freedoms that Johnson says will be lost if Americans do not stand up for what they believe in by voting for the people that will protect their rights as United States citizens.
Johnson said, “I have four children all under the age of 14, and I am deeply concerned about the future that they are going to inherit. We all had a chance at the American dream. If you work hard, you sacrifice, you play by the rules, then you can make a better life, and I have. But, I don’t know if we are going to pass those same freedoms and opportunities on to our kids and grandkids.”
From there Johnson informed the crowd that the fate of the country not only hinges on the outcome of the congressman race, but also the outcome of the presidential election on November 8th.
Johnson said, “One of the big issues that we are all concerned about is the judicial nominations. The next president will appoint at least two, maybe as many as four or five U.S. supreme court justices. I want you to imagine a supreme court composed by Hillary Clinton. It’s not pretty. You think the country has moved radical left in the last few years, wait until they appoint a few more justices. We are talking about the loss of our fundamental freedoms.
“If people that believe in common sense values, and God and country don’t stand up now then we aren’t going to have an opportunity to do it. I mean in the near future. You need to know what we are facing, and if you are a person of faith then it is time for you to get on the armor of God and stand in the gap, because we are losing this thing. That’s just the way it is.”
As a La. Representative, Johnson has made it his mission to wear the armor of God and restore and maintain the principals this country was founded upon, and it is his promise to do the same as a U.S. Congressman.
Johnson said, “When George Washington, our country’s founding father, gave his farewell speech he said, ‘Of all the dispositions of habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are the indispensable supports.’ There is a structure. There’s a rule of law, and it’s built upon a foundation of virtue. Religion and morality is what the founders said. John Adams comes next as the second president, and he says ‘our constitution is made only for moral and religious people.’ They warned us that you had to maintain virtue or a republic doesn’t work, and we are losing our virtue. I want to fight in Washington to make sure we do not lose the soul of our country.”