Speaker Mike Johnson frets that high schoolers increasingly identify as LGBTQ in fundraising email: 'We have much to repent for'

• Speaker Mike Johnson is fretting about the growing rate of LGBTQ identification among young people.
• He lamented that high school students increasingly identify as "something other than straight."
• "I fear America may be beyond redemption," he wrote. "We live in a depraved culture."

In a fundraising email sent on Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson lamented that growing numbers of young people are identifying as LGBTQ.

"1 in 4 high school students identifies as something other than straight," Johnson declared in the email, a copy of which was first obtained by Punchbowl News. "What are they being taught in school?"