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American Family Association fires Bryan Fischer ahead of RNC trip to Israel

The Rachel Maddow Show
01/28/15

Debra Nussbaum Cohen, reporter for Haaretz, talks with Rachel Maddow about the American Family Association firing Bryan Fisher over remarks about Hitler and homosexuality, ahead of paying to fly 60 members of the Republican National Committee to Israel.

additional references beyond those included in the show links ( http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/citations-the-january-28-2015-trms ):

RNC Teams Up With Anti-Gay Extremist And Hate Group
12/9/2014
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group

As RNC Gathers, More Prominent GOP Members In Bed With Extremists
January 14, 2015
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/01/14/as-rnc-gathers-more-prominent-gop-members-in-bed-with-extremists/ [with comments]

RNC Turns Deaf Ear To Questions About Trip Funded by Hate Group
January 20, 2015
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/01/20/rnc-turns-deaf-ear-to-questions-about-trip-funded-by-hate-group/ [with comments]

'Hate Group' Funds Republican Trip to Israel
Family Association Opposes Civil Rights, Watchdog Says
January 28, 2015
http://forward.com/articles/213661/hate-group-funds-republican-trip-to-israel/ [with comments]

©2015 NBCNews.com

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bryan-fischer-fired-ahead-of-rnc-israel-trip-390575171843 [with comments], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ueOoTuiQmU [with comments; also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA0FMoTyxJk (with comment), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIaUYuZ1cW4 (with comment), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OT17z9s75Q (with comments) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HDzJsp8sqg (with comments)] [show links at http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/citations-the-january-28-2015-trms (no comments yet)]

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Texas Muslim Capitol Day Tainted By Anti-Islam Protesters, Lawmaker

Alena Yakusheva via Getty Images

By Paige Lavender
Posted: 01/29/2015 12:42 pm EST Updated: 01/29/2015 12:59 pm EST

At least one state lawmaker and a slew of protesters made their opposition to Texas Muslim Capitol Day known on Thursday.

The event, organized by the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, "is an opportunity for community members to learn about the democratic political process and how to be an advocate for important issues," according to CAIR's website.

Freshman state Rep. Molly White (R), who wasn't at the statehouse for the event, left a message [ https://www.facebook.com/TexansforMolly/posts/1610704432493165 ] for those who attended Texas Muslim Capitol Day asking them "to renounce Islamic terrorist groups and publicly announce allegiance to America and our laws":

White posted a similar anti-Muslim message [ https://www.facebook.com/TexansforMolly/posts/1610668082496800 ] on her Facebook page hours before.

"Remember, in the Koran, it is ok to lie for the purpose of advancing Islam," she wrote. "Texans must never allow fringe groups of people to come here so that they can advance their own culture instead of becoming an American and assimilating into the American way of life."

Anti-Islam protesters took to the Texas statehouse on Thursday to express their opposition to Texas Muslim Capitol Day:

Lauren McGaughy
@lmcgaughy
Anti-Islam protesters at Texas Muslim Capitol Day screaming "go home!" and "Mohammad is dead!" #txlege [ https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege ]
8:45 AM - 29 Jan 2015
[ https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/560841193592848385 ]

Lauren McGaughy
@lmcgaughy
Only around 25 anti-Islam protesters here but they're loud. Now they're chanting "no sharia" and "Jesus!" As Christian pastor speaks #txlege [ https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege ]
8:59 AM - 29 Jan 2015
[ https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/560844682930823170 ]

KarinaKling
@KarinaKling
Texas Muslim Capitol day met with angry protesters shouting "Jesus is The Lord" and "go home". #txlege [ https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege ] @TXCapTonight [ https://twitter.com/TXCapTonight ]
9:19 AM - 29 Jan 2015
[ https://twitter.com/KarinaKling/status/560849682725736448 ]

Alexa Ura
@alexazura
Video of protestor taking mic from Muslim group's organizer as press conference started outside Texas Capitol http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=20sc5c7%3E&s=8 ... #txlege [ https://twitter.com/hashtag/txlege ]
8:54 AM - 29 Jan 2015
[ https://twitter.com/alexazura/status/560843504209772544 ]

Tina Shively
@TinaS_KVUE
Texas Muslim Capitol Day attendees moved event into tight circle to avoid shouts from Patriot Defense Foundation. #Capitol [ https://vine.co/tags/Capitol ]
https://vine.co/v/Ot7OUQMK6FF
9:18 AM - 29 Jan 2015
https://twitter.com/TinaS_KVUE/status/560849596285722625

According to Texas Tribune reporter Alexa Ura [ https://twitter.com/alexazura/status/560851987676143616 ], one of the leaders of Texas Muslim Capitol Day said this is the first year protestors have shown up since the event began in 2003.

Copyright ©2015 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/29/texas-muslim-state-capitol-day_n_6572428.html [with comments]

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AFA ousts Bryan Fischer as group spokesperson

By Steve Benen
01/29/15 08:00 AM—Updated 01/29/15 04:30 PM

For those unfamiliar with Bryan Fischer, the religious right leader is practically a real-life caricature of an evangelical radical. Fischer, a prominent voice for the American Family Association for many years, makes ugly and ridiculous comments [ http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-gop-s-favorite-hate-monger-how-the-republican-party-came-to-embrace-bryan-fischer ] – about minority faiths, about gays, about Democrats, et al – on a nearly daily basis.

But going forward, Fischer will no longer make ugly and ridiculous comments in his capacity as a spokesperson for the AFA. Rachel reported on the show [ http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bryan-fischer-fired-ahead-of-rnc-israel-trip-390575171843 (above)] last night that the AFA has fired Bryan Fischer from his post:

“Fischer has been their director of issue analysis, the director of issue analysis for the American Family Association forever. He’s basically quoted everywhere for years now as the organization’s spokesman. […]

“The president of the American Family Association telling us tonight, that as of today, Bryan Fischer should no longer be described as the director of issue analysis for that group, he should not be quoted as a spokesman for the group. As of today, the American Family Association tells us that Bryan Fischer is, and I quote, ‘just a talk show host.’”

When “The Rachel Maddow Show” asked AFA President Don Wildmon what prompted Fischer’s ouster, Wildmon specifically referenced Fischer’s bizarre assertions connecting Nazis and homosexuality. Fischer, of course, originally made these remarks years ago, and has repeated related comments in the years since, but talking to us last night, Wildmon now says, “We reject that.”

As of last night, Fischer’s bio page on the AFA website has been removed [ http://www.afa.net/who-is-afa/spokespersons/bryan-fischer/ ].

The timing of this unexpected shakeup is probably not a coincidence: the American Family Association, despite years of right-wing extremism, is partnering with Reince Priebus and members of the Republican National Committee on a trip to Israel [ http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.639330 ], which created an awkward dynamic. Why would the RNC team up with a group whose spokesperson says things like, “Counterfeit religions, alternative religions of Christianity have no right to the free exercise of religion”?

Nearly 100 RNC members are scheduled to participate in the AFA-sponsored Israel trip, which begins this weekend. It’s against this backdrop that, all of a sudden, Fischer is no longer the religious right group’s spokesperson.

Since our broadcast last night, Mediaite reported [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/evangelist-bryan-fischer-has-been-fired-maddow-reports/ ] at 11:11 p.m. (ET), “For the sake of clarification, Fischer has been fired as a spokesperson and director of issues analysis, but is still a radio show host for the AFA.”

Around the same time, Fischer himself said [ https://twitter.com/BryanJFischer/status/560652916197847041 ] on Twitter that his right-wing radio show will air today in its usual timeslot and on the same station.

We’ll have more on this as the story unfolds, but it seems at this point that the American Family Association has indeed fired Fischer as a spokesperson for the organization, but will keep him on as the host of an AFA-backed radio program. When AFA President Don Wildmon described Fisher as “just a talk show host,” the unstated subtext may have been “just our talk show host.”

©2015 NBCNews.com (emphasis in original)

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/afa-ousts-bryan-fischer-group-spokesperson [with comments]

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The AFA Cannot Wash Its Hands Of Bryan Fischer's Bigotry That Easily

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 1/29/2015 11:48 am

Last night it was reported that the American Family Association [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/american-family-association ] had finally fired the Religious Right's most notorious bigot, Bryan Fischer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bryan-fischer ]. While that would be welcome news, if true, the AFA has a long history of trying to salvage its own reputation by distancing itself from Fischer's unrelenting bigotry and this latest effort appears to be simply yet another attempt to whitewash the AFA's façade without making any genuine changes.

Back in 2009, Bryan Fischer was an obscure state-level Religious Right activist with a history [ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/06/18/bully-pulpit ] of getting fired for his radical views. From his position as head of the Idaho Values Alliance, Fischer was mostly known for launching boycotts [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/idaho-family-takes-bold-stand-against-evil-greeting-card-menace ] against Hallmark stores for offering cards for gay weddings and celebrating [ https://leftistmoon.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/hostages-of-bryan-fischer/ ] a fatal plane crash as God's payback for abortion.

Fischer's radicalism and bigotry were obvious even back then, but that didn't stop the American Family Association from wooing Fischer away [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ivas-bryan-fischer-gets-afa-promotion ] from Idaho with an offer to serve as the organization's "director of issues analysis" and host a daily radio program down in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Within months of his arrival at AFA, Fischer was already using his national platform to spread his unmitigated bigotry, starting with his demand [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-time-has-come-purge-military-all-muslims ] that all Muslims be banned from serving in the U.S. military, a position that he continues to steadfastly promote to this day.

Within a year, Fischer was using his position at AFA to declare that homosexuality should be illegal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-everything-would-be-better-if-homosexuality-was-illegal ] and that gays should be treated like criminals [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-gays-should-be-treated-drug-addicts ] and banned [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-gays-are-biased-sexually-deviant-felons-and-can-never-serve-supreme-court ] from serving in public office [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-lesbian-qualified-sit-supreme-court ]. While Fischer was advocating for the deportation of all Muslims [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-calls-end-muslim-immigration-and-deportation-all-muslims-us ] and an end to the building of mosques in America [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-more-mosques-period ], the AFA continued to provide him a platform, just as it did when he began calling for whales [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-sea-world-death-due-wests-failure-follow-scripture ] and bears [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-cursing-us-bear-attacks-failing-follow-bible ] to be put to death for biblical infractions and blaming the Holocaust on gays [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-outdoes-himself ].

Finally, in 2010, the AFA made a half-hearted attempt to wash its hands of Fischer's vile views ... not by firing him, mind you, but simply by adding a disclaimer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-becoming-liability ] at the end of Fischer's blog posts and radio program insisting that the things Fischer was saying on the AFA's website and radio network should not be taken to reflect the views of the organization:

Unless otherwise noted, the opinions expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

Obviously, this was nothing but a pathetic cop-out, as we have pointed out [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/just-when-fischer-speaking-afa ] several times [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/it-time-afa-take-responsibility-fischers-bigotry ] before. The AFA plucked Fischer from obscurity, gave him a salary and a national platform from which to regularly proclaim that gays are Satanic perverts but then tried to pretend that it was not in any way responsible for Fischer or his views, such as:

Fischer: Muslims Are Stupid and Violent Because of Inbreeding.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-muslims-are-stupid-and-violent-because-inbreeding

Fischer: Gay Sex Is "Domestic Terrorism. I Don't Know What Else You'd Call It."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-sex-domestic-terrorism-i-dont-know-what-else-youd-call-it

Fischer: If DADT is Repealed, America Will Be Defended By Sexual Perverts and Deviants.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-if-dadt-repealed-america-will-be-defended-sexual-perverts-and-deviants

Fischer: Every Mosque Is An IED and Every Muslim Is Guilty of Treason.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-every-mosque-ied-and-every-muslim-guilty-treason

Fischer: "Homosexuals Are Defined By One Characteristic Only: They Want to Use the Anal Cavity for Sex."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-homosexuals-are-defined-one-characteristic-only-they-want-use-anal-cavity-sex

Fischer: Native Americans Are Mired In Poverty and Alcoholism Because They Refuse to Accept Christianity.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-native-americans-are-mired-poverty-and-alcoholism-because-they-refuse-accept-christi

Fischer: Native Americans Need to Leave The Reservation, Convert To Christianity, and Become Full-Fledged American Citizens.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-native-americans-need-leave-reservation-convert-christianity-and-become-full-fledged

Fischer: Welfare Just Gives Money To "People Who Rut Like Rabbits."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-welfare-just-gives-money-people-who-rut-rabbits

Fischer: All Immigrants Must "Convert To Christianity."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-all-immigrants-must-convert-christianity

Fischer: Muslims Represent A "Toxic Cancer" To American Society.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-muslims-represent-toxic-cancer-american-society

Fischer: Gays Are Nazis.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gays-are-nazis

Fischer: "Liberals Hate God."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-liberals-hate-god

Fischer: Make Homosexuality "A Criminal Offense."
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-make-homosexuality-criminal-offense

Fischer: First Amendment Does Not Apply To Mormons.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-first-amendment-does-not-apply-mormons

Fischer: 'Every Homosexual Represents a Heightened Security Risk.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-every-homosexual-represents-heightened-security-risk

Fischer: God Will Cure AIDS If Gays Stop Having Sex.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-will-cure-aids-if-gays-stop-having-sex

Fischer: 'It's Perfectly Appropriate to Discriminate Against' Homosexuality.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-its-perfectly-appropriate-discriminate-against-homosexuality

Fischer: Government Should Mandate that Everyone Attend Church and Tax Those Who Don't.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-government-should-mandate-everyone-attend-church-and-tax-those-who-dont [and see e.g. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/304125/jizya ]i

Fischer: Removal of Prayer & Ten Commandments from Schools Responsible for CO Shooting.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-removal-prayer-ten-commandments-schools-responsible-co-shooting

Fischer: Gays are Driven by a 'Dark, Venomous, Demonic Hatred'.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gays-are-driven-dark-venomous-demonic-hatred

Fischer: 'Muslims are Worshiping a Demon.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-muslims-worshiping-demon

Fischer: 'Political Leadership Ought to be Reserved for the Hands of Males.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-political-leadership-ought-be-reserved-hands-males

Fischer: The 9/11 Terrorists Were 'Agents of God's Wrath.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-911-terrorists-were-agents-gods-wrath

Fischer: God Didn't Stop CT School Shooting Because He's a 'Gentleman' Who Doesn't Go Where He Is Not Wanted.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-didnt-stop-ct-school-shooting-because-hes-gentleman-who-doesnt-go-where-he-not-w

Fischer: Sodomy Is 'An Ugly Word Because It Describes Ugly Behavior.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-sodomy-ugly-word-because-it-describes-ugly-behavior

Fischer: People Who Believe In Evolution Are 'Disqualified From Holding Political Office In The United States Of America.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-people-who-believe-evolution-are-disqualified-holding-political-office-united-states

Fischer: God Will Use ISIS To Punish America For Gay Rights.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-god-will-use-isis-punish-america-gay-rights

Bryan Fischer Suggests The Charlie Hebdo Attack Was God's Punishment For Magazine's Blasphemy.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-suggests-charlie-hebdo-attack-was-gods-punishment-magazines-blasphemy

Fischer: 'Being An Active Homosexual Should Disqualify You From Public Office'.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-being-active-homosexual-should-disqualify-you-public-office

Fischer: You'll Never 'Find A More Directly Demonic Energy Than When You Deal With The Homosexual Agenda.'
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-youll-never-find-more-directly-demonic-energy-when-you-deal-homosexual-agenda [above]

Not surprisingly, Fischer's outrageous views and statements have caused [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/vander-plaats-bryan-fisher-and-afa-do-not-speak-me ] problems [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perrys-office-says-fischers-bigotry-has-nothing-do-his-prayer-rally ] for the AFA and those with whom the AFA has partnered at events [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/romney-calls-out-bryan-fischers-bigotry ], most recently [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-doesnt-want-his-bigotry-distract-jindals-prayer-event ] Gov. Bobby Jindal, who teamed up with the AFA for his "The Response [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/response ]" prayer rally last week. But through it all, the AFA has steadfastly insisted [ ] that Fischer does not speak for the organization while simultaneously standing by him [ ] and continuing to provide the platform from which he spreads his bigotry.

This weekend, some 60 members [ http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.639330 ] of the Republican National Committee are scheduled to go to Israel on a trip [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group ] organized by Christian nationalist David Lane [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-mobilizing-1000-pastors-run-office-because-our-appointed-time-god ] and funded by the American Family Association and it seems as if Fischer's radical views have suddenly become too much for the RNC and AFA to ignore, as last night Rachel Maddow reported [ http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bryan-fischer-fired-ahead-of-rnc-israel-trip-390575171843 (above)] that the AFA had fired Fischer:

[the Maddow segment embedded]

From what we have been able to gather, Fischer has not actually been dismissed by AFA but has rather merely been stripped of his title as director of issues analysis and his role as spokesman for the organization. Fischer will reportedly continue [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/evangelist-bryan-fischer-has-been-fired-maddow-reports/ ] to produce [ https://twitter.com/BryanJFischer/status/560652916197847041 ] his daily radio program for the AFA's radio arm, American Family Radio.

If this is indeed the case, then the AFA has literally accomplished nothing with this stunt and has completely failed to distance itself from Fischer's utterly despicable views. The primary venues though which Fischer has managed to spread his bigotry for the last six years have always been owned, operated, and funded by the American Family Association and that relationship appears to remain intact.

Stripping Fischer of his title as AFA spokesman in no way alleviates the AFA of its responsibility for Fischer's toxic views given that the only reason Fischer even has a platform from which to spread those views is because AFA is providing it to him and paying him to spread them!

From the very start of Fischer's time at AFA, the organization has pathetically attempted to have it both ways: providing the very microphone from which Fischer speaks while simultaneously claiming that it bears no responsibility for the message that he sends.

The AFA's latest effort to rid itself of Fischer's rancid reputation is little more than a rhetorical accounting trick aimed at creating the false impression that the organization has wiped Fischer's bigotry off of its books.

© 2015 People For the American Way

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-cannot-wash-its-hands-bryan-fischers-bigotry-easily

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Meet David Lane: The Anti-Gay, Christian-Nation Extremist Of The RNC

Priebus, center. Lane, far right.
Via The Brody File [ http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2013/07/19/ted-cruz-rand-paul-and-praying-for-spiritual-revival-in.aspx ]

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 1/29/2015 12:40 pm

Last night, Rachel Maddow reported that the American Family Association [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/american-family-association ] has fired Bryan Fischer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bryan-fischer ] as its official spokesman [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-cannot-wash-its-hands-bryan-fischers-bigotry-easily (just above)], while letting Fischer keep his radio show on the organization’s radio network. The move apparently came as a result of growing controversy surrounding a trip to Israel for Republican National Committee delegates [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group ] bankrolled by the AFA.

It didn’t look good for the RNC that the group paying the tab for the trip to Israel has a spokesman and radio host who believes that gay people are modern-day [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gays-are-nazis ] Nazis [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-gay-activists-are-modern-day-nazi-stormtroopers ] who are responsible [ http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/the-gop-s-favorite-hate-monger-how-the-republican-party-came-to-embrace-bryan-fischer#hitler ] for the Holocaust [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-fischer-outdoes-himself ], demands Jewish conversion to Christianity [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afas-guide-judaism ] (and wants to [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-goes-too-far%E2%80%A6again-afa-removes-and-edits-post-demanding-immigrants-convert-christian ] require [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-all-immigrants-must-convert-christianity ] conversion [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-immigration-policy-bible-convert-christianity ] for Jewish and other non-Christian immigrants), and insists that non-Christians [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-first-amendment-rights-muslims ] have [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-first-amendment-does-not-apply-mormons ] no [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-our-constitution-protects-free-exercise-christian-religion ] First Amendment rights [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/four-minutes-hate-naked-bigotry-afas-bryan-fischer ]: “Counterfeit religions, alternative religions to Christianity, have no First Amendment right to the free exercise of the religion.”

However, the RNC trip’s chief organizer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group ], David Lane [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/david-lane ] of the American Renewal Project [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/american-renewal-project ], which has close ties to the AFA, is no less radical than Fischer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindals-extremist-prayer-rally-brings-together-prophets-bigots-and-far-right-activists (above)] ... but his extreme views haven’t stopped Republicans from embracing Lane [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-presidential-hopefuls-favorite-christian-nation-extremist ].

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/reince-priebus ] has appeared at Lane’s political gatherings [ http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2013/07/19/ted-cruz-rand-paul-and-praying-for-spiritual-revival-in.aspx ] and praised his radical anti-LGBT activism [ http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2014/10/07/watch-republican-chair-praises-antigay-activists ]. In fact, potential Republican presidential candidates like Rand Paul [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-rallies-right-wing-pastors-iowa , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rand-paul-0 ], Ted Cruz [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-pray-stop-assault-marriage , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/ted-cruz/ted-cruz ], Mike Huckabee [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-and-mike-huckabee-answer-call-christian-nation-extremist-david-lane , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/mike-huckabee ], Rick Perry [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/ted-cruz-and-gop-leaders-record-ads-far-right-groups-god-s-people-must-restore-american-valu , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/rick-perry ] and Mike Pence [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gop-2016-candidates-have-busy-religious-right-schedule-post-values-voter-summit , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/mike-pence ] have either appeared at Lane’s events, which typically take place in early primary states, or participated in election-themed advertisements for Lane’s group.

Bobby Jindal [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindal-and-mike-huckabee-answer-call-christian-nation-extremist-david-lane , http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/bobby-jindal ], who has participated in both ventures, even hosted a prayer rally last weekend that was organized by Lane and funded by the AFA [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bobby-jindals-extremist-prayer-rally-brings-together-prophets-bigots-and-far-right-activists (above)].

Lane and the AFA also organized [ http://www.nationalreview.com/article/347151/rand-paul-and-israel ] an earlier visit to Israel for Paul [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rand-pauls-travels-birthers ] and Perry [ http://time.com/3616292/republican-israel-trip-american-renewal/ ], and Lane also organized Huckabee’s recent trip to Europe [ http://blogs.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2014/06/20/brody-file-exclusive-mike-huckabee-to-take-iowa-south-carolina.aspx ].

Lane, who describes himself as a political operative [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/influential-religious-right-organizer-david-lane-admits-im-actually-political-operative ] who prefers working behind the scenes [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/under-radar-christian-nationalist-david-lane-quietly-waging-spiritual-warfare-save-america ], shares Fischer’s view that God is preparing to violently punish America for its tolerance of homosexuality. Lane, like Fischer, also believes that gay Republicans and gay rights supporters in the GOP are dangerous figures who will help bring the country down. He has:

• Argued that “homosexuals praying at the Inauguration” of President Obama in 2013 will provoke God’s wrath in the form of “car bombs in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Des Moines, Iowa [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-predicts-car-bombings-la-dc-and-des-moines-over-gay-inauguration-prayers ].”

• Feared that God might destroy the U.S. [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-predicts-car-bombings-la-dc-and-des-moines-over-gay-inauguration-prayers ] just as he punished Nazi Germany: “If we get judgment like Nazi Germany, I’m assuming we go to rebel, and God says ‘I’m done.’”

• Urged conservative Christians to prepare for martyrdom [ http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2013/06/11/wingnut-calls-for-martyrdom-to-stop-marriage-equality/ ] in their fight to “save the nation from the pagan onslaught [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-presidential-hopefuls-favorite-christian-nation-extremist ] imposing homosexual marriage [and] homosexual scouts.”

• Warned that homosexuality has created an unparalleled “moral crisis” and “threatened our utter destruction [ http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/indecency-sin-and-todays-whig-party/ ].”

• Favorably quoted a Christian author who said [ http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/indecency-sin-and-todays-whig-party/ ] that “same-sex marriage practiced universally is suicide. To survive gays and lesbians are parasites, depending for their cultural survival on couples that birth the next generation.”

• Explained why homosexuality is a threat to freedom: “Homosexuality is debauchery [ http://www.westernjournalism.com/normalizing-sin-and-the-decadent-society/ ]. God’s loyalty and fidelity — that guard the nation — make sustainable freedom dependent on seeking virtue.”

• Predicted that homosexuality will lead to the destruction of America [id.]: “Homosexual desire and marriage is unnatural and — more so — is a symptom of advanced cultural decay and precursor to the collapse of the Republican Party and the nation.... The mark of a decadent society is the exaltation and normalization of sin — which leads to the death.”

• Said homosexuality is part of a Marxist “psychological conditioning” plot [ http://www.gopaulrevere.com/2012/02/kingdom-of-god-will-not-arrive-on-air.html ].

• Attacked gay Republicans Richard Tisei [ http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/evangelicals-have-a-big-decision-to-make/ ] and Ken Mehlman [ http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/indecency-sin-and-todays-whig-party/ ] along with GOP marriage equality supporters Rob Portman [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-moral-majority-must-wage-war-against-pagan-onslaught-imposing-homosexual-marriage ], Laura Bush, Barbara Bush and Cindy McCain [ http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/indecency-sin-and-todays-whig-party/ ] for trying “to impose homosexual marriage — and indecency — on Christian America.”

• Compared Republicans who support marriage equality to politicians who backed slavery [ http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/evangelicals-have-a-big-decision-to-make/ ] in the run-up to the Civil War.

“What is our aim?” Lane asked [ http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/political-evangelical-calls-for-war-against-pagan-onslaught-imposing-homosexual-marriage/politics/2013/06/06/68242 ] in a 2013 op-ed. “One word only: victory, in spite of all intimidation and terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, America will ultimately collapse.”

He has set his sights at the separation of church and state, warning [ http://www.gopaulrevere.com/2012/02/kingdom-of-god-will-not-arrive-on-air.html ] that “America is lost, one has to think through and devise a strategy to recapture our Christian heritage and reestablish our Christian culture.” Lane has also outlined [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-presidential-hopefuls-favorite-christian-nation-extremist ] his strategy to further entrench his radical ideology in the Republican Party by holding prayer rallies like “The Response,” sponsoring events featuring GOP leaders, known as “restoration” and “renewal” events or “pastor policy briefings,” and recruiting 1,000 pastors to run for elected office [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-mobilizing-1000-pastors-run-office-because-our-appointed-time-god , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CW4PdRRYo (next below; with comments)].

Urging conservatives to “wage war for the Soul of America [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-moral-majority-must-wage-war-against-pagan-onslaught-imposing-homosexual-marriage ] and trust the living God to deliver the pagan gods into our hands,” Lane wants conservatives to embrace his exclusionary Christian Nationalist beliefs and abolish the separation of church and state. Lane:

• Called the separation of church and state [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-lane-moral-majority-must-wage-war-against-pagan-onslaught-imposing-homosexual-marriage ] a “lie” and a “fabricated whopper” used to stop “Christian America – the moral majority – from imposing moral government on pagan public schools, pagan higher learning and pagan media.”

• Claimed that while “America was a Christian nation [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/republican-presidential-hopefuls-favorite-christian-nation-extremist ]” since its founding, now it must choose between being “a Christian nation or a pagan nation.”

• Said America needs a “thorough cleaning [ http://www.gopaulrevere.com/2012/02/kingdom-of-god-will-not-arrive-on-air.html ] from pornography, abortion, homosexuality, filth from TV and Hollywood, racism, and injustice.”

• Asserted that the “false gods of multiculturalism, political correctness and secularism [id.] must be removed from Christian America.”

• Disclosed that “our long-term strategy must be to place the Bible in Public Schools as the principle [sic] textbook [id.] of American education.”

• Congratulated a pastor for exposing Mitt Romney’s belief in the “false god of Mormonism [ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/16/rick-perry-camp-s-anti-mormon-message.html ]” during the 2012 GOP primaries.

• Lamented that the “‘religion of secularism [ http://www.westernjournalism.com/a-call-to-all-pastors/ ]’ has produced red ink as far as the eye can see, homosexuals praying at the Inauguration, tax-funded abortion, homosexual marriage in several States, Evangelicals held in contempt, and God expelled from the classrooms of America — and the public square.”

• Warned that while America has “grovel[ed] to the false god of Islam [ http://www.westernjournalism.com/pentagon-apologizes-to-the-false-god-of-islam/ ],” “America, a Christian nation in heritage and culture, is being dismantled brick by brick.”

© 2015 People For the American Way (emphasis in original)

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-david-lane-anti-gay-christian-nation-extremist-rnc [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65087619 and preceding and following,
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=66689085 and preceding and following]

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Group Organizing RNC Israel Trip Attacks Israel's 'Atheist Jews'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 1/29/2015 3:00 pm

Sandy Rios [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/sandy-rios ], the American Family Association’s director of governmental affairs, said today [ https://vimeo.com/118125281 ] that criticism of her organization’s role in financing [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-david-lane-anti-gay-christian-nation-extremist-rnc (just above)] a Republican National Committee trip to Israel [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group ] is unfounded because Israel “could not have a better ally” than the AFA ... despite the fact that God disapproves of the country’s “secular government” and is not “fond of atheist Jews” who live there.

“In terms of our teachings and our biblical understanding there could not be any more strong support for Israel than you find among people who understand and believe in the Bible and believe that God’s hand is on Israel, in spite of what’s happening there, in spite of its government,” she said. She mocked the notion “that God is in favor of a secular government or that God is fond of atheist Jews who occupy the land in Israel.”

“It is His land and I believe He will reclaim it in time,” Rios said.

In an apparent response to pressure from the RNC, the AFA distanced itself from its main spokesman Bryan Fischer [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-cannot-wash-its-hands-bryan-fischers-bigotry-easily (above)] yesterday, stripping him of his title while still allowing him to host a daily talk show on the organization’s radio network.

[audio ( https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/rios-on-atheist-jews-in-israel ) embedded]

Rios has a history making such statements about American Jews. She has argued that “powerful Jewish forces [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/corsi-and-rios-explain-how-evolution-aclu-and-powerful-jewish-forces-will-destroy-america ]” use groups like the ACLU to destroy America, claimed “Jewish leftists in this country are eager to embrace Islam [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gabriel-islam-everywhere-rios-jewish-leftists-eager-islam ],” lamented that “the Jewish vote in this country is so confused, so many of the Jews in this country are atheist and their hearts are with this President [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country ],” and warned that “Jewish atheists” are among “the worst enemies of the country [id.].”

AFA president Tim Wildmon [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/tim-wildmon ] has agreed [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_RpyH8B194 (next below; with comments)] with her assessment: “Most of the Jews in this country, unfortunately, are far-left.”

© 2015 People For the American Way

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/group-organizing-rnc-israel-trip-attacks-israels-atheist-jews

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Mike Huckabee: Obama Giving Muslims 'Special Rights' While 'Stomping All Over Christians'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Thursday, 1/29/2015 3:25 pm

Mike Huckabee [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/mike-huckabee ] stopped by the American Family Association’s radio network today to denounce the Obama administration as “incapable of knowing the difference between good and evil” in the fight against extremist groups.

The former governor and likely presidential candidate told [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsIUd-VYQ1U (below, as embedded; with comments)] Kevin McCullough [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/kevin-mccullough ] of “AFA Today” that the Obama administration is “bending over backwards to do everything possible to accommodate Muslims but they don’t mind stomping all over Christians and they do it regularly. This is just the most astonishing reversal of true American tradition that I’ve ever seen.”

Huckabee, who in a previous appearance on American Family Radio said that the president is more familiar with madrassas than Boy Scout meetings [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/huckabee-and-fischer-agree-obamas-childhood-instilled-fundamentally-anti-american-ideas-him ], argued that the administration wants to let Muslims “enjoy special rights and privileges” while it at the same time ignores terrorists who claim they are motivated by Islam.

© 2015 People For the American Way

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mike-huckabee-obama-giving-muslims-special-rights-while-stomping-all-over-christians [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=110160429 (and any future following)]

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Mike Huckabee Creeps On Beyonce & Has A History With Explicit Lyrics

Published on Jan 15, 2015 by The Young Turks

"Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee seems as preoccupied with Beyoncé as any card-carrying member of the Beyhive.

In a new interview with People magazine, the potential 2016 Republican presidential aspirant invoked the singer by way of questioning the parenting skills of President and Michelle Obama. Why, he wondered, do they let their daughters listen to (and watch!) some of Beyoncé’s edgier performances?

“I don’t understand how on one hand they can be such doting parents and so careful about the intake of everything – how much broccoli they eat and where they go to school and making sure they’re kind of sheltered and shielded from so many things – and yet they don’t see anything that might not be suitable for either a preteen or a teen in some of the lyrical content and choreography of Beyoncé, who has sort of a regular key to the door” of the White House, he tells People. "* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/texas-lawmakers-vote-panic-button-after-harassment-pro-gun-group

Fox News vs France, Mike Huckabee vs Beyonce, Aziz Ansari vs Murdoch & Right Wingers - The Young Turks 1/15/2015 News & Politics
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTpcK80irdQgvvUFp3i8Mcoue0S-vS0GD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leDwUwWLRW0 [with comments] [and see e.g. (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=97217659 and preceding and following]

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Bryan Fischer Says That He Has Not Been Fired, Will Retain His Position As AFR Radio Host

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thursday, 1/29/2015 3:36 pm

Bryan Fischer kicked off his radio program today [ http://vimeo.com/118159032 ] by refuting reports [ http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/bryan-fischer-fired-ahead-of-rnc-israel-trip-390575171843 (above)] that he had been fired by the American Family Association, explaining [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9AtehdkCz4 (below, as embedded; with comments)] that he has simply given up his role as an official AFA spokesman while retaining his role as a daily radio host for AFA's radio outlet, American Family Radio.

Fischer said that his designation as an AFA spokesman while he also served as a radio host was creating confusion and resulting in the personal opinions he expressed on the radio being unfairly attributed to the AFA. As such, Fischer will no longer serve as an official voice for AFA but will continue to spew his bigotry from the AFA's radio stations:

As we noted earlier today [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-cannot-wash-its-hands-bryan-fischers-bigotry-easily (above)], this supposed change is utterly meaningless and does nothing to absolve the AFA of its responsibility for giving Fischer a national platform from which to spread his hate.

Of course, the AFA doesn't see it that way, having recently sent a letter [ http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/american-family-association-repudiates-chief-spokesman-s-racist-and-anti-lgbt-stat ] to the Southern Poverty Law Center claiming that its radio network is "a free speech zone" and therefore AFA should not be held responsible for any of the things said on its programs.

AFA nonetheless did explicitly repudiate an array of bigoted claims Fischer that has made over the years, thereby insisting that no longer can Fischer's views be attributed to the organization:

AFA rejects the idea expressed by Bryan Fischer that "Free exercise of religion" only applies to Christians. Consequently, AFA rejects Bryan's assertions that Muslims should not be granted permits to build mosques in the United States;

AFA rejects the ideas expressed by Bryan Fischer that the violent expulsion of Native Americans was divinely ordained and that, "Superstition, savagery and sexual immorality" morally disqualified Native Americans from "sovereign control of American soil."

AFA rejects the ideas expressed by Bryan Fischer that "we" need to clamp down on immigration because Hispanics are socialist by nature and vote Democratic because it allows them to "benefit from the plunder of the wealth of the United States."

AFA rejects Bryan Fischer's characterization of minorities as "people who rut like rabbits."

AFA rejects the statement by Bryan Fischer that, "Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews."

AFA rejects the policy advocated by Bryan Fischer that homosexual conduct should be illegal

AFA rejects the notion advocated by Bryan Fischer that, "We need an underground railroad to protect innocent children from same-sex households."

AFA rejects Bryan Fischer's statement that, "If Hillary Clinton becomes president In 2016, she will not only be our first female president, she could be our first lesbian president."

...

In light of this notice, do not continue to charge AFA with the statements by Bryan Fischer that we have repudiated. When identifying "hate groups" in the context of training military or law enforcement personnel, do not put AFA in a false light by quoting Mr. Fischer's statements that we have repudiated.

The AFA will continue to provide Fischer with the staff, resources, and national outlet through which to share the views that AFA reportedly finds abhorrent ... but wants to do so without having to answer for all of the hatred that it is responsible for producing and promoting.

© 2015 People For the American Way

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-says-has-not-been-fired-will-retain-his-position-afr-radio-host

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Religious bigotry haunts group hosting RNC

Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07

"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790

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