Saturday, March 26, 2011

Bryan Fischer Is A Bigot

Remember Mike Huckabee's foot-in-the-mouth interview where he got confused about Barack Obama's upbringing? Well, it was probably because he was being interviewed by Bryan Fischer and therefore felt pressured not to disagree with Fischer's bigoted worldview.

Then there is this:
People For the American Way is calling on three potential Republican presidential candidates to tell Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association that the First Amendment applies to all Americans and doesn’t exclude Muslims.

Fischer wrote Thursday the First Amendment was only meant to protect Christians. On Friday, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee were scheduled to appear on Fischer’s radio show following appearances at a controversial gathering of Iowa pastors in West Des Moines known as the Iowa Renewal Project.
Fischer also had this to say about gays:
Fischer claimed in 2010, while his group was spending around $140,000 in Iowa to oust three Supreme Court justices, that Adolf Hitler was gay and hired gays to be Nazi stormtroopers for their “savagery,” that homosexuals should be banned from public office, and having fewer homosexual students would reduce teen suicide rates. In December, he called for homosexual sex to be made illegal because it was as dangerous as intravenous drug use.
Now, I am very much against the concept of gay marriage, but really? Is it necessary (or accurate for that matter) to describe homosexuals for their "savagery?"

I join the call for Huckabee and Barbour to condemn Fischer. I know they won't and I won't even bother extending the call to Gingrich and Bachmann. This is just another example of how responsible conservatives need to stand up and reclaim the Republican Party.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

WTH?? I'm with you Pablo!

I'm also very glad Romney decided to skip this event. the Republican party has a 'not one of us' element that should be DUMPED asap.

-Martha

Right Wingnut said...

Pablo, Fischer is over the top for sure, but what does Bachmann have to do with it? Why include her in your list of tags?

Pablo said...

RW,

Because she just just went on the show right after Fischer claimed that Muslims have no First Amendment Rights

http://washingtonindependent.com/106959/michele-bachmann-goes-on-bryan-fischers-show-after-he-claims-muslims-have-no-first-amendment-rights

Pablo said...

I suppose I should have mentioned that in the post.

Anonymous said...

Oh this guy is the epitome of the 'one of us' bigots. It took me all of 3 minutes to find what I suspected about Fischer, including:

former pastor
blames Romney for gay marriage, and other various falsehoods/hateful comments about Romney
makes false claims about Mormonism (surprise!)
has a habit of making bigoted and extreme comments in the name of the Bible
etc. etc. etc.

These people are so so easy to peg in an instant. Very safe bet that he supported Huck in 08, and probably will again.

So, yeah. Pablo is right on the money. These kind of people make my head hurt.

-Martha

hamaca said...

Actually, this does raise a good question. Does going on the show of a guy like this indicate support or tolerance of the host's views?

If so, to extend the logic a bit further, does this mean that candidates should only go on shows where the known politics of the host coincide with their own?

Pablo said...

Hamaca,


It is one thing to go on a show of somebody with whom you disagree on health care policy or economic policy. In fact, I would argue that candidates should go on shows where they are challenged. But this is not what the potential 2012'ers are doing with Fischer. Fischer is an offensive bigot. It is not just policy differences.

Anonymous said...

Well, I'm glad Romney skipped the conference. I also hope he all but skips Iowa. Romney's not going to kiss up to the bigots again.

-Martha

Anonymous said...

I didn't mean that Iowa is full of bigots. It's just that there are some factions there, who are all too happy to use Romney's religion against him again.

-Martha

Pablo said...

Martha,

I think that Romney needs to do well in Iowa. He has a better chance there than in SC. In fact, if we are going to talk about religious bigots, probably there are more in SC than in Iowa.

Anonymous said...

That's true. But for some reason, I feel like SC is going to be a little more up for grabs. Probably just wishful thinking.

I wonder just how much effort Romney is going to put into Iowa.

-Martha

Anonymous said...

Fischer is a bigot, and I am not condoning him. However, while Hitler himself reportedly hated gays, he did have at least one NAZI in his organization that was gay, and was also a brutal, brutal man. Eventually Hitler eliminated him, but not for a few years until the guy's usefulness wore out. My source is (yes, I have read it), THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH. I can look up the info for you if you want, but otherwise, you can take my word for it, Hitler was willing to--so to speak-- "bed down" with all kinds of creatures in his quest for power and world domination. I guess the non-aggression pact with Stalin would be an example of this, as well. Evil, evil man, Hitler!

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