Speaker Mike Johnson and daughter were profiled attending 'purity ball' in 2015 German TV news segment

Years before becoming speaker, Mike Johnson and his family were profiled attending a "purity ball" in a German TV news segment, underscoring his deep conservative views.

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.

"This looks like a wedding," a news reporter says in German in a 2015 n-tv news segment that was unearthed by ABC News. "But they are not bride and groom -- but rather father and ... daughter," the reporter adds, referring to Johnson and his then-13-year-old daughter, Hannah.

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. It features clips of Johnson and his daughter at the ball with numerous other father-daughter pairs, and shows Johnson's daughter vowing to him to live a life of purity, as well as her signing a pledge.

Johnson, his wife Kelly, and his daughter participated in interviews for the segment, which was posted on the German news channel's website.