Every late night show I watched last night brought up this porn thing between the Speaker and his son. Actually, the shows were from Monday night, but I don't stay up that late so I watch them the next day. Why would you even tell anyone that you do this with your son? This Speaker is not just a religious nut, he's dumber than dirt. Of course to take the Bible literally, you have to be dumber than dirt or you just never think very much. It's hard to understand how someone with an advanced degree can believe this shit, which is why I often say that having a lot of academic letters after your name, doesn't always equate with critical thinking.
I'm not sure it's stupid as much as naive or arrogant. Maybe these all can be said to be the same thing, just coming from different perspectives examining the same person. In any case, it seems like Johnson is a very privileged, isolated person in some ways--he has previously been very protected because his job has been small-time within the ranks of very conservative Louisiana. He didn't have to be worried about being in a national spotlight or people looking into anything he said or did, publicly or privately. There is way more scrutiny now and in a short time, this was uncovered. If we extrapolate and predict, the extra scrutiny is going to reveal quite a bit more...and so it's plausible he will be the next George Santos.