“Years before Mike Johnson would ascend to No. 2 in the presidential line of succession, a German TV news outlet profiled the future speaker of the House and his then-teenage daughter,” ABC News reports.
Said the news reporter: “This looks like a wedding… But they are not bride and groom — but rather father and… daughter.”
“The German news segment documented Johnson and his family preparing for and then attending a purity ball, a controversial formal dance event, popular among some conservative Christians, that gained notoriety in the early 2000s. At a typical event, fathers and their teenage daughters dress in formal ball attire for a night that involves dinner and dancing and culminates with the daughter signing a pledge to her father to abstain from dating and to remain sexually abstinent until marriage.”
“The news segment examines purity balls and the general purity movement among conservative Christians through the lens of the Johnson family.”
