I have two tabs open in my browser which fall directly under this headline, so let’s kill two extremely dumb birds.
Here are Bryan Fischer and Randy Sharp of the American Family Association, agreeing that God is extremely concerned with a chain of hardware stores, so much so that He is going to punish them. God hates Home Depot, you see:
Prophecy has really gotten mundane, I think we all can agree?
So anyway, while the AFA continues to be upset about Home Depot, their One Million Moms affiliate has decided to declare war on The Gap, urging them to “learn from JC Penney’s mistakes.” I’m not sure anyone in JC Penney’s top brass is aware they made a “mistake,” but this is the delusional world of the American wingnut:
One Million Moms, the anti-gay group that propelled shoppers into JC Penney with its boycott of JC Penney for hiring Ellen DeGeneres, is now attacking GAP for an advertising series featuring Broadway’s “Book Of Mormon” actor Rory O’Malley and his boyfriend Gerold Schroeder. No doubt GAP is praying for the One Million Moms effect. LGBT shoppers and our allies actually formed shopping days and shopping flash mobs that drove thousands of buyers into JC Penney.
Indeed!
Companies should learn from others’ mistakes. Retailers need to choose morality or remain neutral. Otherwise, their bottom dollar will suffer.
Speaking of companies who are choosing to be politically correct instead of focusing on selling clothes; GAP is also guilty. In Los Angeles, CA, GAP has a billboard located downtown that reads: “GAP- BE BRIGHT- BE ONE” with two homosexual men pressed together under a shared t-shirt. They are hugging each other and facing the camera cheek-to-cheek. “BE ONE” is in large letters which emphasizes the same-sex relationship.
GAP Inc. Brands, including Old Navy, Banana Republic, Piperlime, and Athleta, does not deserve, nor will it get, money from conservative families across the country. Supporting GAP is not an option until they decide to remain neutral in the culture war. GAP needs to seriously consider how their immoral advertising affect the youth of our nation.
You see, in wingnut world, there are only two options: either publicly agree with the wingnuts or stay silent on all issues which run the risk of hurting the wingnuts’ fee fees. Anyway, this stupid boycott will go nowhere, as none of their stupid boycotts go anywhere.
Same old story. The Romney campaign hired Richard Grenell as a foreign policy spokesperson. Grenell is a wingnut who thinks John Bolton has good ideas. Grenell is also gay. So, of course, the frothing pitchfork gang on the Religious Right went after him, led by Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association hate group, whose mental health I am beginning to seriously call into question.
Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
In a statement obtained by Right Turn, Grenell says:
I have decided to resign from the Romney campaign as the Foreign Policy and National Security Spokesman. While I welcomed the challenge to confront President Obama’s foreign policy failures and weak leadership on the world stage, my ability to speak clearly and forcefully on the issues has been greatly diminished by the hyper-partisan discussion of personal issues that sometimes comes from a presidential campaign. I want to thank Governor Romney for his belief in me and my abilities and his clear message to me that being openly gay was a non-issue for him and his team.
According to sources familiar with the situation, Grenell decided to resign after being kept under wraps during a time when national security issues, including the president’s ad concerning Osama bin Laden, had emerged front and center in the campaign.
At the above link, the official statement from the Romney campaign is posted, where they assert that they actually tried to persuade him to stay.
Never one to let a little detail such as that stand in his way — The Romney campaign probably was keeping him under wraps for a minute just hoping that the wingnuts would stop barking — Bryan Fischer is over the moon about how important he thinks he is now:
Today, during the second hour of Fischer’s daily radio broadcast, the news broke the Grenell had in fact resigned from the campaign and Fischer could barely contain his glee, declaring it a “huge win” for the Religious Right because it means that they have forced Romney to back down and taught him that he cannot do anything like this again.
Haha, okay, Bryan, keeping telling yourself that, at least until the next time the establishment GOP jams something in the Religious Right’s eyes, like they’ve been doing for decades, because they never really have respected you. Enjoy your little dance on the grave of Grenell’s job.
Jennifer Rubin, one of the many conservative columnists at the Washington Post, is just appalled at the Religious Right reaction to Mitt Romney’s hiring of the openly gay Richard Grenell. She cites Ben Smith’s report on the backlash, centered on Bryan Fischer’s response:
A leading anti-gay figure in the Republican Party attacked Governor Mitt Romney for hiring an openly gay spokesman, sending a shot from the GOP’s socially-conservative base across the nominee’s bow.
Bryan Fischer, the director of issue analysis for the Tupelo, Miss.-based American Family Association, is probably the most straightforwardly anti-gay Republican to appear regularly in the party’s mainstream. Presidential candidates including Rick Santorum have appeared on his radio show, and he spoke at the Values Voter Summit in Washington in October.
He responded yesterday to Romney’s decision to hire an openly-gay — “out & loud gay,” in Fischer’s terms — foreign policy spokesman, Richard Grenell by calling it a “message to the pro-family community” of “drop dead.”
Ben Smith’s piece goes on to point out that Grenell is close to John Bolton, which should eliminate him from contention for any job more difficult than walking cats, but that’s neither here nor there.
Jennifer chimes in:
There plainly is a debate generationally, as I have reported, within the GOP on gay marriage. But while this goes on, there should, one would hope, be a consensus that animus toward gays and toward hiring gays to work in government (or anywhere else) is beyond the pale. Pols like Rick Santorum and social conservative groups who don’t want to endorse Fischer’s brand of hate shouldn’t associate themselves with him.
Yes, “one would hope” that blatant, naked homophobia should be off the table, but this is the modern Republican party we’re talking about, which has been overtaken by the same crazies the “insiders” used to cynically use for usefully stupid votes. We are aware that, yes, it does freak Beltway conservatives out that these people — the teabaggers, the Religious Right — have risen to positions of influence and are controlling many of the levers, but the party has been going that way for a while now. But I’d suggest that it’s highly naive to assume that politicians like Rick Santorum “don’t want to endorse Fischer’s brand of hate.” Of course they do! They’re not particularly happy that their associations with people like Bryan Fischer get reported far beyond the echo chamber walls of Wingnuttia, as it destroys their chances with moderates, but just the same, you’ve got to dance with them that brung ya, and for far too many figures in the modern Republican party, “them that brung ya” are misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic voters yearning for an America that only ever existed in their minds.
It would be a positive thing for the party and our country if it was crystal clear there is no place in civil discourse for those fanning the flames of hatred toward gays and egging on fellow conservatives to discriminate against gays in hiring. Unfortunately, not everyone on the right agrees.
Nope, they don’t. This election is going to be fun to watch.
Bryan Fischer, the hatiest hater at the American Family Association hate group, has been on a roll the past couple of days, displaying his ignorance and bigotry like…well, like he usually does. Right Wing Watch has been paying attention to his latest meltdowns, and in the first one, he’s losing it over the prospect of Republicans having to support Mittens in the fall, because he’s an evil Mormon:
The reality is that there are just a number of Evangelicals that just will not vote for Romney because they do not want to put somebody who believes in a different god in the White House, which is perfectly understandable. He’s a spiritually compromised candidate; that’s the only way to put it. If he goes into the Oval Office, he will be the first polytheist that we’ve ever had as a president. Mitt Romney would be the first non-Christian president that we’ve ever had;
Wait, Bryan Fischer believes Obama is a Christian? I’m actually surprised. Or is he just getting lost in his competing talking points?
the first president that we’ve ever had that did not emerge from a stream of historic Christian orthodoxy.
So this would be unprecedented, and it would be unprecedented spiritually. You remember the prophets, this is one of the things that they were toughest on the kings about is departing the worship of the true and living God for alternative gods. This was something that weakened a nation and so we’re looking at that, if Mitt Romney becomes the president, we have a spiritually-compromised president who will be the first polytheist to ever hold the Oval Office, the first president who has ever believed in a multiplicity of gods, the first president who has ever believe that man can become a god, and that God didn’t used to be God, he used to be a man who progressed to godhood. So this would be completely uncharted waters for America.
Um, okay. Mitt Romney would obviously be an awful president, but I really don’t care whether he believes God used to be a man or whatever.
Of course, Bryan Fischer is playing a game of Pot Kettle Black with himself when it comes to calling out Mitt Romney’s strange beliefs, as Bryan immediately went on another word salad tangent about evolution:
[Fischer's queening out against Romney] somehow sent him off on a tangent about science, during which he declared that he didn’t believe in global warming or evolution because he is “committed to science.” And since “evolution is completely irrational and scientifically bankrupt,” the “most logical thing in the world” is to believe that God created the universe.
Um, omigod.
Kyle goes on to point out, of course, that for a man who is so “committed to science,” Bryan doesn’t actually explain what on God’s earth evolution and the laws of thermodynamics have to do with each other, but this is wingnut fantasy land. Actual facts and things do not matter, because the average AFA supporter views a sixth grade physical science text as a gateway into sin.
Here’s the video:
Bryan: please look up the scientific definition of the word “theory,” because you look even dumber than usual right now.
They just don’t get it. Joe tips us off to this piece by Concerned Man Mario Diaz of the Concerned Women for America, where he tries desperately to find the balance between condemning gays to a fiery damned hell with a plastic fundamentalist smile on his face and, you know, actual hate. I never know how Fundamentalists actually define “hate” if they can’t see it in themselves. Let’s go through his piece and see what we find:
Some who fight for homosexual “rights” accuse Christians of being hateful because of their support for the traditional definition of marriage.
Some who fight for the “rights” of black people to be free accuse slaveowners of being “hateful” because of their support for the traditional definition of “slavery.” (See what I did there? I see what I did there. They’re the SAME ARGUMENT.)
But there is a fundamental problem with that equation. A Christian, by definition, cannot hate homosexuals.
Oh my goodness, what definitions and equations is Mario using here? Because his fundamentalist cohort show on a daily basis that, yes, indeed, they can hate homosexuals, and moreover, they’re quite good at it!
Christians follow the teachings of Christ. And Christ summarized all the law with two simple rules: (1) “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind,” and (2) “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Well, in theory…but we still haven’t talked about the Concerned Women for America/hate group-y kind of Christian. They don’t follow Christ’s teachings at all.
The truth is that if anyone hates homosexuals then they cannot call themselves a Christian. Hate towards neighbors and Christianity are mutually exclusive.
Ha, well then. Porno Pete, Linda Harvey, Tony Perkins, Peter Sprigg, Greg Quinlan, DL Foster, Bryan Fischer, Laurie Higgins, and all the rest of you, come on down! Mario of the Concerned Women has summarily excommunicated you all. Please return your Christian name-tags on the way out and be off.
It is true that Scripture even calls us to “love our enemies.” Yet, I am hesitant to use that passage in this context, because I do not want to suggest that homosexuals are somehow our enemies. They are not.
Is CWA going liberal? I’m still waiting for Mario to start twisting language and throwing Get Out Of Jail Free cards.
Now, that’s all well and good in theory
In theory. Did I not say “in theory,” just above? I did. I promise I didn’t read the article before I started writing. Here comes the justification for a special supposedly Biblical sort of hate:
but how does this look in practice? Well, I can say that I have in my life, just like most of the readers, close friends and family members who describe themselves as homosexuals. And I love them.
They “describe themselves as homosexuals.” And he loves them. Warm fuzzies. Go on?
They know where I stand on the issue of marriage and homosexuality. They know I believe that government should not promote their lifestyle. I have shared what I believe God’s grace can do in their lives. That they are not slaves to their desires.
Aha, so he “loves them,” therefore he’s foisted his weird, unfortunate, disproven beliefs about sexuality on them, sharing the Good News about how, if they really loved God, they’d live out their lives all alone, never experience romantic love, etc. There’s that Fundamentalist Christian “Love” I’m so used to. I love you, you’re perfect, now change, or you’re going to burn in hell with all the other unsaved heathens! Warm fuzzies getting warmer.
We’ve talked about it privately, and I write about it publicly. Some have even gotten mad at me because of something I have said or written.
Yeah, and they probably talk behind your back about how unfortunate that it is that you’re a bigot.
But our friendship goes on, because it goes beyond homosexuality. They are much more than that.
I am committed to pray for them, and not only about salvation, as some seem to think. They have many worries in life (as we all do) and I pray for those, especially when they ask me to.
Even gays have other worries in life beyond whether we’re going to hell? Tell me more, Mario!
I won’t lie and say my heart doesn’t hurt for them. They truth is that many of their struggles are centered on their lifestyle. And the great majority carry enormous hurt from their past.
That’s my favorite kind of loving friend: the one that publicly writes about how much they pity me. Warm fuzzies now warmest! Let me guess: the enormous hurt from their pasts was inflicted by, for the most part, rejection from the Fundamentalists they were erroneously trained to trust?
So I pray for peace, joy, and mercy in their lives. That’s the Christian approach. That is, at least, for those who follow the teachings of Christ.
Hate who they are, pray for them and tell them to change, while waxing poetic about “love.” Sounds about right.
The bottom line is a Christian must behave like a Christian. Or he or she is not a Christian at all. We stand for God’s model for marriage and the family alone, and we love our homosexual neighbors. There is nothing incongruent about that.
Especially when “love” is a euphemism for something else entirely.
I’ve long said that the defining characteristic of a religious wingnut is that they don’t fight for or against anything that is actually verifiably real. While gay activists are over here concerned about working to make sure gay kids don’t kill themselves and all citizens are treated equally in our society, wingnuts are losing it over completely imaginary boogeymen. I imagine that a good psychologist could explain how this sort of denial protects them from having to confront the utter emptiness of their lives, but I’ll leave that to the doctors. For now, let’s look with wonder and awe at the imaginary world the AFA’s Bryan Fischer has created in his mind, as he elucidates the “Ten Commandments of Secular Sharia Law,” something which, um, doesn’t even make sense. These are the imaginary monsters under Bryan Fischer’s bed, y’all:
These new commandments must be obeyed, and those who flout them will receive the most severe and unyielding punishments, including censure, excommunication, (say, from graduate counseling programs), and fines in the forms of legal fees to the secular imams at the ACLU.
The ACLU is under Bryan’s bed, making tapping noises on the box spring.
1. “Government, not Yahweh, is God.” Secular fundamentalists want us to look to government for everything we we [sic] were once taught to look for from God. Government is all knowing, all powerful, all wise, all caring. You know, all the things God used to be.
This is strange, since our nation didn’t have an official god to start with.
2. “You shall have no gods, period.” The goal of secular fundamentalists is the extermination of any and all mentions of God and Christ in the public arena. The only exceptions to the “no god” rule will be for Gaia and Allah. Gaia is to be worshiped, and any blasphemy against her, by plundering her for such things as the fuel on which the world runs, will be met with the severest punishment and condemnation.
In the real world, liberals hold to the virtues of separation of church and state so that people actually CAN have religious freedom, rather than the un-free version supported by Fundamentalists, wherein we are all free to worship or not worship as we please, as long as we don’t offend the delicate sensibilities of people like Bryan Fischer. I don’t have the energy to burst the idiot bubble regarding some sort of connection between radical Islam and secular liberalism, and the stupidity of the argument is self-evident to all thinking sixth graders, so…
3. “You shall not take the name of the homosexual agenda or Islam in vain.” If you do, we will land on you like a falling safe. Profanity, blasphemy, vulgarity, obscenity, pornography, all are fine. Criticize homosexual conduct, on the other hand, and we will cause the wrath of our god to descend upon you as a consuming fire. You will be silenced, marginalized and treated as a leper. We secularists have freedom of speech but you cretinous conservatives do not. If you have a problem with sexually deviant behavior, you are by definition a homophobic hatemonger and we don’t have to listen to you.
But yet we’re still on “gay and Islam are just alike!,” aren’t we? Of course, the notion that we are or would ever try to “silence” the bigots is silly, as they win people for our side every time they talk. In that way, they are our unwitting allies. Of course, his complaint that we don’t HAVE to listen to them is valid, as there is nothing in our Constitution which suggests that we need to listen to the whining of bigots. They may speak. We may ignore. Been that way for 236 years…
4. “Observe Halloween, Labor Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as holy days. Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, on the other hand, must be wiped off school calendars as if they never existed.”
I observe every holiday on that list. If such a high god of the homosexual agenda such as I hasn’t gotten the memo to destroy Christmas, Easter and Turkey Day, I’m worried that there’s a glitch in our top secret e-mail system.
5. “Honor your father and mother – by which we mean liberal politicians, since they have turned government into your mommy and your daddy.” No husband, no problem: government will be the head of your home. No father, no problem: government will be your provider and raise your children for you.
This is why we fight so hard for marriage equality, and why untold numbers of gay couples give adopted children loving, two-parent homes. It’s to promote single parenting, obviously.
6. “You shall not murder – unless it’s a defenseless baby in the womb.”
Yes, well, we do support reproductive rights, but overall, we’re still the true pro-life contingent here, as most liberals see life as something that extends beyond birth.
7. “You shall not commit adultery – unless it’s with another man’s wife. Fornication and sodomy without repercussions and penalty are okay too. And we’re working on polygamy and pedophilia.” Anyone who disagrees, and says anything remotely critical of such behaviors, will be subject to the wrath of the holy and righteous prophets of secular Sharia in the out-of-the-mainstream media, who will call down fire and brimstone on those who dare to challenge the sexual orthodoxy of leftist libertines.
I don’t see anyone on our side advocating for adultery. “Fornication and sodomy without repercussions and penalty are okay too.” Yep, they are! When two adults are consenting and want to have sexytime with each other, it’s really not Bryan Fischer’s bizness, is it? No, I don’t think it is. However, to derail the discussion with mention of polygamy and pedophilia, the most egregious scandals of which involve those bastions of secular liberalism known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Roman Catholic Church…well, that’s just confusing.
Outside of Bryan’s fever dream, are we fighting for those things? I don’t think so…
8. “You shall not steal – unless it’s to plunder from the producers what they have earned to give to the non-producers what they have not earned.” Anyone who complains about this involuntary transfer of wealth will be judged by the secular mullahs as evil, greedy capitalists and silenced. Right after they have been ripped off.
Jesus was all about giving a big “F you” to the poor, you see, in Bryan’s theology. I’m pretty sure he’s reading his Bible upside down, of course.
9. “You shall not bear false witness – unless it is to tell blatant lies about the Constitution, American history, the economy, unemployment figures and drilling for oil.” As long as you are lying to advance the power and reach of government, or get a leftist politician reelected, it’s okay. Secularists have their own version of taqqiya, just like the Muslims do.
They have the joke historian known as David Barton, yet we are the liars…
10. “You shall not covet anything – as long as it belongs to people who are poorer than you. If they have more money than you, they are evil oppressors who must be plundered of their ill-gotten wealth by our government overlords so it can be redistributed to the lazy, shiftless and irresponsible.”
That’s the same thing as number 8, dillweed. Bryan must have heard George Soros rifling around under his blankie and, jittering in fear, decided to phone number 10 in. Lazy.
I continue to be amazed that there are actual humans in this country who believe these sorts of things. But, as I said at the top, I’m sure there is some sort of psychological reason these people worry themselves over things that simply don’t exist. I don’t want to spend any time in their heads figuring it out, though…
In our work here at Truth Wins Out, we go to great pains to make sure that when we’re talking about Fundamentalist Christian hate groups like the Family Research Council and the American Family Association, or even Porno Pete’s Dungeon of Leather Photography, we are talking about a specific subset of American Christians who believe they are entitled to a special, supremacist place in our society based on their “sincerely held religious beliefs,” i.e. their bigotry. It does a disservice to the broad swath of American Christians who are not hatemongers obsessed with what’s going on in everyone else’s beds and wombs to simply use the term “Christian” to describe these conservative Fundamentalists. Unfortunately, much of the culture and the media doesn’t grasp this distinction, and it hurts a lot of people. In a phone conversation with my mom last week, she said something to the effect of, “I’m a Christian and I’m right of center, but I’m not a wingnut.” Indeed, she is not, but she was kinda pissed that so often the media glosses over these distinctions. It doesn’t just give liberal Christians a bad name — it smears all the rest of them.
Of course, the media is at fault, but we have to also look at the hate groups themselves, who constantly use the blanket term “Christian” to describe their activities, most of which are quite un-”Christian” indeed. Timothy Noah has an important piece in The New Republic addressing this very issue, and he’s seeking to reclaim the term from that tiny subset which co-opts it and gives the rest of Christendom a bad name:
Christian? Christians aren’t some twee boutique demographic. Christians represent the majority. About 78 percent of Americans self-identify as Christian, according to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. What NPR and Fox and Sony mean when they say “Christian” is “Christian right” or “Christian conservatives,” terms that adherents don’t like because they think they’re pejorative. “Fundamentalist” and “evangelical” are imperfect substitutes because a) the two categories, though they overlap a lot, aren’t precisely the same; and b) some of these folks consider themselves political liberals. (The worldly Cold War liberal Reinhold Niebuhr called himself an evangelical Protestant.) What conservative Christians really like to be called is “Christians.” Hence “Christian rock” and “Christian college” and now “Christian film.” This strikes me as terribly presumptuous. Bruce Springsteen was raised Catholic but he doesn’t perform anything these folks would accept as Christian rock. Wesleyan was founded by Methodists and named after John Wesley but evangelicals would never call it a Christian university. “Christian” has become a euphemism for “acceptable to the type of Christian (in most instances Protestant) who frowns on homosexuality and wishes Saul Alinsky had minded his own business.”
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To suggest that conservative Christians are the only Christians is like saying Hasidic Jews are the only Jews. It’s a cartoonish misconception that the Christian right has managed to sell to a largely secular news media that’s too sensitive to accusations of anti-religious bias.
I’ll co-sign that sentiment. Noah goes on to suggest that the media really should wake up and specifically use the phrase “Christian conservative” to describe the culture — films, music, hate group rallies — enjoyed by the subset of Fundamentalists who seem to think they’re the only real Christians. It’s not pejorative. It’s simply what they are.
But this disconnect is the reason why people like Tony Perkins are able to call gay rights an attack on “Christians” and get away with it. Most Christians couldn’t give a tinker’s damn what Tony Perkins or Bryan Fischer says, but you wouldn’t know it watching the news. This is a theme that Truth Wins Out will be pursuing in more detail in the coming months, so stay tuned.
Scott Lively, one of the most vicious anti-gay activists in the United States, is currently the subject of a lawsuit concerning his involvement in Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” bill. He, of course, claims complete innocence, as Religious Right figures tend to do when called on their insipid activities abroad. Lively’s strange fear and hatred of gay people has been well documented, but it appears that he’s really bought into the same fantasy-land lies that African despots use to engender hatred against the gay community, lies which deflect attention from the actual problems of poverty, disease, hunger and economic disenfranchisement in those nations, problems which are often inflicted by their own governments. Scott Lively went on the radio show of another head-in-the-clouds conspiracy theorist and hatemonger, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association hate group, to explain how all this gayness came to Uganda in the first place. Get ready for some Grade A Black Helicopter content, folks:
Uganda, in the 1990s, entered into an incredible Christian revival and, as a result of that revival, Christian values were just infusing the whole society and they went from having the highest level of AIDS in Africa to the lowest through the promotion of abstinence and fidelity in marriage, you know, the core Christian values about sexuality.
Because of that, that represents a huge threat to the globalists who use the sexual revolution and the whole Planned Parenthood Federation and the global homosexual movement, they use all those components are a population control method as they gather more and more power for themselves.
So what Uganda did represented a major threat to them, so they began infiltrating the country. George Soros, for example, I don’t know what stage of the process, but he went in like he always does, bought media and set up grassroots activist groups. And then, starting in the late 90′s, early 2000′s they started, these infiltrators, starting introducing pornography into this very conservative society.
And so, in 2002, to combat this sort of threat to the Ugandan culture, the government held a conference against pornography and obscenity. I had the privilege of being the keynote speaker at the conference – the Lord really had orchestrated this because I knew how this was happening; I knew who was doing this and what it’s all about, so I was able to just lay it out. I said this is who’s doing it, this is what’s going to happen next, and you need to organize in your society to stop this group of people from homosexualizing your society.
Yes. He believes that George Soros was really freaked out that people were not dying of quite so much AIDS, so he sent an army of porn and gays into Uganda. Granted, many wingnuts view George Soros as some sort of Goliath-sized boogeyman, but most couldn’t pick him out of a crowd if their lives depended on it. These are REALLY SPECIFIC BELIEFS, Scott! It’s sad and creepy to see a man so unhinged by fear and hatred, but it’s scary when you realize that his lies, distortions and general contempt for an entire minority group actually has currency in other, less connected parts of the world.
Anyway, the question in the post title stands: don’t you just hate it when George Soros sends you all kinds of porn just to further his insidious agenda? All together, one big “LOL” at Scott Lively.
Note: it’s worth pointing out that the fundamentalist wingnut belief that HIV/AIDS rates dropped in Uganda due simply to monogamy and abstinence is mostly crap. The story is quite complex, but the evidence suggests that it was a comprehensive approach that reduced their rates of infection and death. Moreover, it’s worth noting that their decline didn’t last forever and rates have been rising again for several years.
Out of touch with the mainstream of America, much, Frothy?
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum on Thursday attributed the criticism of his socially conservative political beliefs to journalists and others living in New York.
“The idea that values issues are losers is held by a group of people in the media who live in the New York area,” he said in an interview with American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer. “Because they don’t know anybody or very few people who share those values, so they just assume the rest of the country is like them.”
“So they just naturally recoil at someone who dares to talk about these things or actually publicly talks about his faith and what his faith and convictions are. It makes them uncomfortable.”
Er, no, Frothster. If it was just mean New Yorkers [as watertiger translates, JEWS!] who hated Rick Santorum’s ultra weird psychosexually obsessed politics, Rick would be winning a lot more primaries than he currently is, and this is among Republican wingnut primary voters. Meanwhile, a majority of the country supports marriage equality and a super-majority [like what, 99%?] of women use/have used contraception at one point or another.
Rick Santorum, of course, said this to the spokesperson for a nationally known hate group, so he didn’t get any pushback. That’s how the echo chamber works.
