According to Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent: People for the American Way sent out letters to Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, Mike Huckabee, Christine O'Donnell and a number of other conservative Christians asking them to denounce remarks by Bryan Fischer.
Bryan Fischer is the director of Issue Analysis for Government and Public Policy at American Family Association (AFA.) The AFA was founded by conservative evangelical activist Rev. Donald Wildmon. (Part of that "national conservative evangelical political movement" I'm always writing about. Bachmann's in it, too.)
Here's Fischer...
Just in the past year, Fischer has:
Demanded that no new mosques be built anywhere in America. (8/10/2010)
Argued that inbreeding has caused Muslims to be stupid and violent. (9/10/2010)
Said that Muslims should be banned from serving in the U.S. military. (11/9/2009)
Insisted that all Muslims are traitors, called for the deportation of all Muslims from the U.S. (4/10/2010)
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Claimed that U.S. service members died in vain because the U.S. failed to make Iraq a Christian nation. (8/19/2010)
Said that "homosexuals should be disqualified from public office." (8/5/2010)
Insisted that gays are biased, sexually deviant felons, not to mention pedophiles, and should never serve on the Supreme Court. (4/15/2010, 4/16/2010)
Called gay adoption "a terrible, terrible, inexcusable, inhumane thing to do to children." (8/10/2010)
Argued that we should"impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in intravenous drug abuse." (2/3/2010)
Wrote: "The inescapable conclusion is that gay sex is a form of domestic terrorism." (6/10/2010)
Said: "Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals." (5/25/2010)
Disparaged family values in the Hispanic community, saying "Also, the illegitimacy rate among Hispanic women is over 50%. I’m not sure pro-family values are as strong in the Hispanic community as Dr. Land wants to believe." (7/23/2010)
Called the President a "fascist dictator" for taking steps to hold BP accountable for the Gulf oil spill: "And remember the President’s been a fascist ... he says ‘I’ve been a fascist from day one. They can’t blow their nose without asking permission from me, they can’t clean the wax out of their ears unless they get a sign-off from me.’ That’s what fascist dictators do!"(6/18/2010)
As mentioned, Bryan Fischer writes on public policy for the American Family Association (AFA). The AFAan sponsored the Values Voter Summit, the conservative evangelical political conference that featured Bachmann, Gingrich, Pence and O'Donnell as speakers.
So: here we have People for the American Way asking a host of elected officials to distance themselves from the views of a paranoid representing a political movement--the same political movement that urges its national constituency to support the careers of those very politicians. (In some cases--for example, Bachmann's--that political movement made those careers.)
And it's a national movement, and it's very much based on the worldview represented by Mr. Fischer in those quotes--and still the traditional media won't give this movement the news coverage it richly deserves.
A reporter could hear remarks very similar to those articulated by Fischer on any given day of the week--simply by listening to the current affairs programming on conservative evangelical radio. The consequence of news media failure to regularly report those statements to the public--is that such daily statements continue to circulate unchallenged within the conservative Christian base.
And one of the consequences of that, is that one of the only two viable political parties in the United States is now admitting nuts, liars, and bigots to its top ranks.
And as these elected officials continue to rise (in the wake of any Dem fail at the polls), they will begin to make public policy, decisions affecting war and peace: for you and me, on the basis of these wild and hateful suppositions about the world and the way it works.
The Fischer statements quoted above are just from one guy. This is the version of "Christianity" pitched by this national evangelical political movement. They are not going away; they are in fact positioned.
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