Bryan Fischer, the public face of the SPLC certified anti-gay hate group, American Family Association, today said, “What we need: anti-bullying legislation to protect organizations like Komen from the thugs at Planned Parenthood,” via Twitter. It’s just one more perfect example of how Fischer mocks and marginalizes minorities, the poor, the needy — all in violation of his so-call “Christian” beliefs — and attempts to portray them as violent and operating outside the law.
Ironically, of course, Bryan Fischer himself here is the real bully.
For those not familiar with Fischer, here’s a small sampling of his “work.”
Last month, Fischer falsely claimed, “in the homosexual community, the average homosexual has hundreds of sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. Hundreds. Some of them have between 500 and 1000 and there are any number of homosexuals, and they admit this in their own literature, have more then a 1000 sexual partners.”
Fischer also last month dangerously stated that Magic Johnson being alive for 20 years after his HIV diagnosis is “confirmation” that HIV does not cause AIDS.
Bryan Fischer has said gays are Nazis, suggested that millions of Americans contracted HIV/AIDS because of the existence on Congressman Barney Frank, gays are not born gay, the Tea Party ended slavery in America, gays are a threat to national security, public health, and that traditional marriage is necessary for US survival.
Fischer has also claimed the same hate, vitriol, and anti-Christ spirit is at work in Islam and in the “homosexual agenda,” that Chaz Bono, “is a surgically-mutilated female,” and has said, “Let’s have a state law that provides some kind of fine for anyone who has unprotected homosexual sex.”
He’s called for the re-criminalization of homosexuality in every state, said homosexuality “is a death sentence, it’s not a lifestyle, it’s a death style,” and claimed California is going to have a hard time fulfilling SB 48 because “by definition,” gays cannot be role models.
Fischer tweeted that the Norway terrorist would have made a good Muslim but a bad Christian, said, “Hitler hiomself was a homosexual,” and “we cannot have the homosexual agenda and liberty. Those two things are incompatible.”
Bryan Fischer claimed criticism of and Marcus and Michele Bachmann over the practice of “ex-gay therapy” is both religious bigotry and a hate crime, he’s said, “homosexual bigots commit hate crimes,” and “Christophobic gay activists” want to “continue a campaign of threats, harassment….”
Fischer says “homosexual activists” who attack him for his hate speech and lies against the LGBT community are committing a “hate crime,” he’s said, “fidelity in same-sex relationships is virtually unheard of,” and claims the Nazi Party was formed in a gay bar in Munich.”
Fischer also claimed that once DADT is repealed, neither gays nor straights will sign up for the military, forcing a draft, said that Christian military officers are about to become victims of “systematic hate crimes,” by gays, and “the homosexual agenda is just like Islam.”
And all that’s just since May of last year.
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I appreciate that there need to be folks monitoring this guy, but the idiot is only encouraged by having his antics reported and discussed. STOP REPORTING ON THIS MORON! He gets far too much power and emphasis from the attention he gets. Monitor him quietly or leave it to the anti-hate groups and stop putting him at the top of NCRs actual news and he will eventually tire and go away. Let him be the footnote he really is instead of giving him the spotlight he craves. Please, just stop!.
Alex, respectfully, I'm afraid you don't grasp the magnitude of this. First, these people don't go away if you ignore them. Bryan Fischer is not some lone wolf. He is a highly-paid spokesperson for the AFA, a group that has a direct line into the RNC, a group with a budget of tens of millions of dollars, a group with 180+ radio stations in 40 states that daily reach millions of people.
Fischer speaks at CPAC. He can pick up the phone and talk to any religious or political leader he wants to. They only go away when their lies are exposed. And that's why we do this.
David, If you really feel that he is that influential then you are right to continue reporting on his antics. I wonder, however, how his influence would be regarded if he wasn't in the news all the time. It seems to me that, at a certain point, it becomes a vicious cycle or a self-fulfilling prophecy. You report because he is influential and he is influential because he gets reported-on. Just my $0.02 worth. You're probably in a better position to judge this than I, but he seems to be at the top of the "news" an awful lot and I rarely see his face in other venues.
PLease, please, please ignore this nut, do not publicize the hate he spews.
Apparently you didn't have a chance to read my comment above. We will continue to report on Bryan Fischer until he recants all his anti-gay bigotry. Nothing will change that.
it's amazing to me how very small in numbers of adherents these cult like self-professed "christian" and "values" dolts are, compared to the majority population of the usa. yet, they are so shrill, so ugly and so schoolyard bullyish that they merit copious news coverage by the major media and even on smaller reportage sites like this newsletter. would that the voices of sanity, reason, fair play and tolerance be as loud and as ubiquitous to drown out the hate and ignorance we're accustomed to hearing from the groups like those above. what we get as a result is an impression that these "values" people are significant forces in our society when in fact if they had no publicity we'd see that they are little more than crybabies and pipsqueaks just clamoring for their 15 minutes. but then, without them the media would have no incendiary matters like koman v pp to discuss, papers would not be sold, radio and tv would have no viewers and the internet would have nothing viral. all this says a lot about the american media and the tiny yet dangerous reich/right wing
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