This blog piece contains some of the more notable instances of American ChristoFascists (Family) Association's Bryan Fischer's hate screeds, such as his repeated attacks on the LGBT movement, pro-choice views, Islam, and his support for mixing in his warped view of religion with state. He is the host of AFR's Focal Point.
Has Bryan Fischer's hate rants against anyone who isn't pro-GOP, anti-choice, anti-LGBT rights, anti-Hispanic, pro-Evangelical Conservative gone too far?
The American Family Association has tolerated a lot of Bryan Fischer’s anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic, anti-whale, and anti-bear screeds, but the group is now cracking down on its Director of Issues Analysis for claiming that Native Americans were justifiably forced out of their land and are to this day punished with poverty and alcoholism for not converting to Christianity.
The Native American Rights Fund said Fischer’s comments are "not worth dignifying with a reply," and AFA blogger Elijah Friedeman called Fischer’s views "repulsive.
Fischer's homophobia: Fischer suggests "Christians must vote against Gays, no matter what"
I have edited it to down to highlight Fischer's claim that what America needs is pastors who are willing to instruct their congregations that homosexuality is an ungodly perversion and that, as Christians, they must always vote accordingly and fight any effort to "accept the normalization of homosexual behavior."
Dozens of GOP leaders and activists want to see homosexuality outlawed
By doing so, we pointed out, any one who added their name was essentially declaring that they stood shoulder-to-shoulder with groups that proclaim:
Gays should be exported from the country;
The federal government must be overthrown if it allows gay marriage;
"Moral perverts" need to be kept out of the military;
There is nothing "conservative" about "one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it 'love'";
Homosexual behavior ought to be outlawed;
Gay sex ought to carry criminal penalties;
Gays ought to be prohibited from serving in public office;
Gay sex is domestic terrorism;
"Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers ... [because] homosexual soldiers basically had no limits [to] the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict."
Fischer: "The Less Islam in the US, The Better"
Bryan Fischer likes to declare that he is "pro-Muslim but anti-Islam," which means that he simply wants to free all those poor Muslims from the misery of Islam by continually pointing out what a atrocious religion it is and preventing them from immigrating into the US:
Islam is an evil and wicked religion, and unworthy of a Christian nation.
We will have to choose in America between Islam and a free press, because we can’t have both. We will have to choose in America between Islam and freedom of religion, because we can’t have both. We will have to choose in America between Islam and the truth, because we can’t have both.
Bottom line: the less Islam there is in the United States, the better.
Well, he is in the wrong on the subject of Islam.
Fischer: "Deport the Muslims"
Today, Fischer has returned to defend his call for all Muslims in the United States to be deported immediately by claiming that every Muslim has a "solemn, sacred obligation to kill as many of their hosts as possible" and it is therefore "a form of suicidal insanity" to allow them to stay in the US .
Fischer admits that while not every single Muslim is out to destroy the US, since we can't know which ones are ahead of time, it only makes sense to view "every new Muslim immigrant [as a] potential threat to the safety and security of the United States" and to treat all Muslims citizens as traitors.
Fischer thinks that there should be no more mosque construction in America.
Permits should not be granted to build even one more mosque in the United States of America, let alone the monstrosity planned for Ground Zero. This is for one simple reason: each Islamic mosque is dedicated to the overthrow of the American government.
Each one is a potential jihadist recruitment and training center, and determined to implement the "Grand Jihad" ...
Because of this subversive ideology, Muslims cannot claim religious freedom protections under the First Amendment. They are currently using First Amendment freedoms to make plans to destroy the First Amendment altogether. There is no such thing as freedom of religion in Islam, and it is sheer and utter folly for Americans to delude themselves into thinking otherwise.
Some Native American-bashing from Fischer suggests that "Native Americans should be converted to Christianity and become full-fledged American Citizens."
And today was no exception as he dedicated more than ten minutes to reading his latest post in which he claims that God used the Europeans to conquer North America because Native Americans were "morally disqualified" from exercising control and that they remain mired in poverty and alcoholism today because they refuse to give up their "superstition" and embrace Jesus.
Native Americans are already full-fledged American Citizens.
Fischer finally got called out by another AFA blogger, Elijah Friedeman, the son of Matt Friedeman and host of The Matt Friedeman Show.
We have often asked if someone - anyone - would be willing to stand up to Bryan Fischer and his unrelenting bigotry and the answer has always been "no," as leading Republicans and presidential contenders have continued to embrace him despite his outrageous views and offensive comments.
Just yesterday, Fischer declared that Native Americans were "morally disqualified" from controlling North America and are plagued by poverty and alcoholism today because they refuse to embrace Christianity.
This sort of claim is nothing new from the likes of Fischer, so we didn't really expect anyone on the Right to so much as blink an eye, much less actually stand up to him.
And we certainly didn't expect that is someone did actually do so, it would be another American Family Association blogger and radio personality. But that is exactly what has happened.
Fischer supports child labor and child marriage
Because, honestly, how else do you explain things like this in which he says that both "the Jews" and Iranian president Mahmoud Admadinejad are right: we need to start demanding that our children be ready for marriage and work by the time they turn 16 ... oh, and that criminals as young as twelve should be expected to get the death penalty:
This has implications for juvenile law enforcement, by the way. Any individual over the age of 12 should be held personally responsible for violations of the law. We shouldn’t punish his parents, and we shouldn’t impose softer penalties just because of his age. Young adults are adults, and should be expected to behave as adults and accept the punishment we dish out to adults who break the law.
There are implications in this for our system of education. We should roll back secondary education to the point where our students are graduating from high school by age 16. We can teach them everything they need to learn at the secondary level by then, and prepare them for the next stage in life, which could be further education, apprenticeship, or vocational education. We should expect them to be launching into some kind of career trajectory by the time they are 16.
Even more jackassery by Fischer:
He thinks there ought to be three children mininum per married couple
But leave it to Fischer to take an even more radical position by announcing not only his opposition to using tax dollars to provide birth control to the unmarried couples, but to married couples as well ... and then taking a position even more radical than that by declaring that married couples ought to be obligated to have a minimum of at least three children:
And the jackpot of all stupidity from him, defending the South Fulton, Tennessee Fire Department's decision to let Gene Cranick's home to set on fire:
I don’t think I’ve made comments on an issue that have generated so much anger from friend and foe alike as my comments on the Tennessee house fire. Christians have written to me and accused me of being evil and everything else short of calling me the anti-Christ himself.
This refers to the controversy over Gene Cranick’s failure to pay his fire protection premium to the city of South Fulton, Tennessee, and who was consequently forced to watch his house burn to the ground as the fire department stood and watched with him. I argued that the fire department did the right thing, for which I have been blistered by critics from both sides of the aisle.
I have, on the other hand, received emails from those in the insurance industry saying that no insurance company in the world would pay off on a policy when the policy holder had allowed his premiums to lapse. No insurance company would pony up for a man who waited until his house burned down to apply for coverage.
The truth is that the fire department’s hands were tied by Mr. Cranick and Mr. Cranick alone. Only he could release firefighters to do what they were trained to do, by paying his annual fire protection fee. Mr. Cranick didn’t do that. So it was Mr. Cranick that kept the fire department from protecting his home and not anyone from the city of South Fulton.
For more on Bryan Fischer's numerous outrageous comments, see Right Wing Watch.