New House speaker built career as legal advocate for conservative religious values
He frequently refers to ‘so-called separation of church and state’
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The U.S. House today elected as its speaker one of the nation’s leading advocates for a politically and socially conservative view of the relationship between church and state.
U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) was elected speaker on a 220-209 vote, end…