House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on its embrace of gayness — a totally baseless claim

• House Speaker Mike Johnson once blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on "homosexual behavior."
• Johnson is a devout Christian who has called homosexuality "inherently unnatural." 
• Classical Rome embraced homosexuality through its rise and fall.

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a devout Christian, once blamed the fall of the Roman Empire on "homosexual behavior."

"Some credit to the fall of Rome to not only the deprivation of the society and the loss of morals, but also to the rampant homosexual behavior that was condoned by the society," Johnson said in a radio interview in 2008, as CNN first reported.