If you’re not familiar, One Million Moms is a project of the American Family Association hate group, and the past week, they’ve been angry with JC Penney for choosing the “perverted” Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson. When I heard about their complaints, my first reaction was, “as if this is even possible, wingnuts are becoming even less self-aware.” Ellen DeGeneres is one of the most beloved celebrities in this nation, even among many, many conservatives. This is one of the reasons the wingnuts have ultimately lost this “culture war.” Ellen is so funny, and so family-friendly, that I’d imagine it’s hard for any but the most hardcore anti-gay bigots to really hate her.
Here’s Monica Cole of One Million Moms complain, complain, complaining that “JC Penneys” is ignoring them, along with the ever-unhinged Bryan Fischer.
Bryan Fischer points out that there are tons of heterosexual celebrities JC Penney could have chosen. Indeed! Kim Kardashian and Charlie Sheen are probably available! And you know the sad thing? If JC Penney had chosen one of those models of heterosexual behavior, the hate group in question wouldn’t have even noticed.
I haven’t been to a Penney’s in a long time, but maybe I’ll go take a looksee next time I’m near one. I’d imagine that JC Penney knows that the dollars of people who support fairness and equality are worth a lot more than those of the “One Million” [eleven?] moms of One Million Moms.
You see, if gay guys stop having sex and using poppers, all the AIDS will go away. Because that’s the problem with sub-Saharan Africa.
It happened just before the black-out, but no less than Rick Warren sharply rebuked Bryan Fischer for his HIV/AIDS denialism. Apparently the American Family Association has chosen to isolate itself further, even within the conservative Evangelical world. They’re earning their hate group label, yes indeed.
There is literally no anti-science conspiracy theory far-fetched enough for a dim bulb like Bryan Fischer to latch onto. So we are not surprised that the most hateful spokesperson for one of the country’s most ridiculous hate groups, the American Family Association, is now an AIDS denialist:
I recently came across several articles commemorating the 20th anniversary of Magic Johnson’s HIV diagnosis. I still remember the screaming headlines in 1991, the abrupt termination of his NBA career at the height of his powers, and his subsequent and short-lived come back.
One would have expected pictures of Magic, taken 20 years after this life-sentence diagnosis, to be a withered, shriveled version of his former self, his life force eaten away by this killer virus.
“One would have expected,” said the renowned scientist and medical researcher Bryan Fischer.
So why is Magic the picture of health 20 years after this supposedly terminal diagnosis? Easy: the HIV virus does NOT cause AIDS. Since, as one of the world’s leading virologists, Peter Duesberg of U.C. Berkeley, says, HIV is a “harmless passenger virus,” Magic is likely to carry HIV with him to the end of a long and healthy life.
Duesberg wrote a bombshell book in 1996, Inventing the AIDS Virus, which exposes the myth of the so-called AIDS virus.
Peter Duesberg’s theories have been widely disproven, and hundreds of thousands of people have died in Africa, in part because certain leaders over there took him seriously for a while. He’s a quack, pure and simple. Right up Bryan Fischer’s alley…
In fact, in this respect, the bogus HIV/AIDS link is just like the hysterical anthropogenic global warming scam.
And only true idiots or those who stand to profit from huge corporations for propagating the idea that anthropogenic global warming is a myth would lend credence to that statement. As I highly doubt that Bryan Fischer is making that much money from the AFA, I’m going to continue believing he’s simply hysterical, incredibly easily led and simply not that smart.
Anyway, there’s no reason to go through Bryan’s piece line by line — that would be giving him more attention than he’s worth — but he sums up by blaming the entire AIDS crisis on gay men and poppers. This, of course, discounts the lives of the untold numbers of AIDS victims around the globe who are heterosexual, women and children. But wingnuts are pretty casual about discounting other people’s lives when it comes to pushing their propaganda, I’ve found.
Bryan Fischer is so stupid that he thinks that guys had unprotected sex and contracted HIV/AIDS because Barney Frank “modeled a lifestyle” for people. Yes, everybody was just a-followin’ Barney Frank’s lead.
It’s sad that there are people in this country who are uninformed/fearful enough to believe this crap. The good news is that their numbers go down every day. Fundamentalist idiots just aren’t replacing themselves in actuarial tables.
As Jeremy points out, this recent video from Bryan Fischer is notable in that he spends over seven minutes being as weird as he possibly can on so many gay subjects. This is truly a video of a man uncomfortable in his own skin. Let’s live-blog it!
0:15 – Barack Obama made out with world leaders in a Bennetton ad! The White House didn’t like it, and Bryan Fischer saw pictures of men kissing and immediately thought of anal sex, therefore these ads are calling Obama and Hu Jintao homoseckshul lovers, and furthermore therefore the fact that the White House didn’t like the ads means Barack Obama doesn’t like dudes in that way and is therefore a homophobe. QED, if you’re a moron!
1:00 – Bryan Fischer uses the phrase “homosexual clenches,” and because I can see the words coming out of his mouth, I start to gag a little bit. I may not make it through this video.
1:10 – There are some penguins in Canada who have been Doing The Gay together, and the fact that the zookeepers are trying to get them to mate with lady penguins means that they are ALSO homophobes, like Barry Obama! Of course, this is all just like unhinged liar Bryan Fischer, who is hateful/stupid enough to propagate the myth that the Nazis were a gay movement.
2:10 – Bryan argues though that the penguins are just buddies, and not gay at all! As we all know, it’s not gay if your vestigial wings don’t touch, and any X-rated-two-penguin tobogganing is simply “helping a buddy out.”
2:50 – Bryan is very, very dumb and thinks that the fact that the California Supreme Court ruled that the bigots have standing to defend Prop. 8 is good for their movement. He doesn’t seem to remember how much they embarrassed themselves every single time they have ever had to defend their dumbassery in court.
4:30 – If states don’t defend bigoted, unconstitutional laws, then they lied to God with their hands on the Bible when they were sworn i in! So saith the dingus.
4:40 – God, this video is long.
4:50 – Still grossed out by Bryan saying “homosexual clenches.”
5:10 – Bryan really, really, really wants the Jerry Sandusky crimes to be about homosexuality, even though they have nothing to do with homosexuality, but rather pedophilia. But that’s okay, because normal human Americans know that pedophilia and homosexuality have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Bryan also thinks that the media wants the Jerry Sandusky story to “go away” because of the gay angle that Bryan thinks is there. I guess in Bryan’s world, the media isn’t doing its job unless they burn Jerry Sandusky at the stake with a pink triangle affixed to his breast.
6:45 – Somebody on HuffPost wrote an article about Roman Polansky’s new movie, therefore liberals support men who rape little girls, but want the Sandusky story to go away, and now it’s over, oh thank god.
This is predictable. Just as so often conservative Catholics want to deflect attention from child-molesting priests by using their crimes to smear gay people [see: Bill Donohue], Evangelical hate group spokesmouths are now taking the crimes of Jerry Sandusky at Penn State as an excuse to spew bile at gay people.
The press has focused largely on Paterno and others in the Penn State hierarchy who covered up Sandusky’s pedophilia, some of whom even committed perjury to keep his dark and dirty secret from being exposed.
But perhaps some of that press focus is diversionary, to direct the attention of the public away from one of the darkest pathologies associated with homosexual behavior: homosexuals molest children at ten times the rate of heterosexuals.
Homosexual activists will of course lamely argue that since Sandusky is married, he is not a homosexual. Fine, call him bisexual if you will. But his sex crimes are same-sex crimes, and 10-year old boys whose bodies have been cruelly invaded could care less what label homosexual activists want to slap on their abuser.
Also, gay activists will not argue that due to Sandusky’s marriage, he is not homosexual. That would be lame indeed, as we know for a fact that it’s extremely common for conservative Christian men to be simultaneously married to women and also gayer than Glee. However, we will argue that the fact that he’s married and has been molesting young children means that he is a freaking pedophile, as that is what science, reality and common sense suggest.
Let me be clear. A heterosexual pedophile who committed such crimes against young girls should likewise be sent to the chair. Forcible rape of anyone used to be a capital offense everywhere in this country and should be so again.
Without getting into the argument over what punishment should be meted out for these heinous crimes, for our purposes we’ll just note that Bryan Fischer doesn’t seem to know a damn thing about the phenomenon of child sexual abuse. People who molest young kids molest young kids, regardless of the gender of the child. Bryan’s desire to use this as a way to smear gay people is disgusting.
So is Porno Pete’s:
LaBarbera: How Many Boy Victims of Penn State Homosexual Predator Jerry Sandusky Will End Up Thinking They are ‘Gay’?
Ugh. Whichever ones would have been gay anyway, you moron. Indeed, and sadly, many, many kids have been molested since the dawn of time, by people of the same and different genders as they are, and they have grown up to be straight, gay, bisexual, and whatever else in between. There is NO evidence that being molested “causes” anyone to be gay.
Many openly homosexual (“gay”) men, like CNN anchor Don Lemon, were molested as boys or experienced abnormally early sexualization. Yet many of these same men do NOT see their boyhood victimization at the hands of homosexual male predators as causing their homosexuality. (This is due partly to the success of the modern “gay” movement that falsely ascribes “gayness” to a person’s (innate) identity, and emphasizes the ambiguous notion of “sexual orientation” as opposed to behavior that is sinful, destructive and changeable.)
Don Lemon has actually talked about this in detail, so it’s a wonder Porno Pete’s so completely unwilling to listen to Lemon’s words on the subject, while simultaneously playing armchair psychologist to a man he’ll never be lucky enough to meet.
Thus, how many boy victims of homosexual predator Sandusky will end up believing that being homosexual (“gay”) is “who they are”? How many will struggle with sexual identity issues? And how many will be told by LGBT advocates and liberal-minded people just to “accept being gay” as “who they are” because they were “born that way”?
Because the media and academia have largely become apologists for the modern homosexualist movement, they downplay or ignore obvious causative factors in the formation of “gay” identity – including pederastic molestation. CNN’s Lemon is a case in point: he is now an “out gay” celebrity, yet few question the absurdity of him not associating the molestation of his youth with his later embrace of homosexuality as a positive identity.
Porno Pete is a scientist and is therefore qualified to point out “obvious causative factors in the formation of gay identity.” Oh wait, no he is not, he is an amateur fetish sex photographer who leads a very small hate group.
There IS a long history connecting homosexuality to pederasty, and a disproportionate link between homosexuality and pedophilia: why else would so many child molestation victims be boys when only 1-3 percent of the population is homosexual? Since cases of women molesting boys remain rare, if homosexuality were not such a strong factor, nearly all of pedophile victims should be girls, which is far from the case.
Except for the fact that there’s a hell of a lot of science on the issue, which points to many factors that lead to boy victims. One of them is ACCESS. Let us look at the Catholic Church again for a minute, please. Who do Catholic priests have the most consistent access to? Young boys! So those who are child molesters are going to go for the kids they have the easiest ACCESS to. This is science, but it’s not that damned complicated.
Sandusky is married but obviously has a homosexuality (perversion) problem.
No, he has a child rape problem. It’s amazing that Porno Pete has missed that child rape is the crux of the Penn State debacle, so blinded is he by his hatred of gay people.
But we’re used to this kind of crap from bizarrely gay-fixated wingnuts like Bryan and Porno Pete.
Writing about what is surely the Next Big Thing among three or four Rand worshippers somewhere, the “patriotic rock band” Madison Uprising [not kidding], TBogg put together one of those paragraphs which explains, pretty much in full, the type of people we liberal gay types have to deal with on a daily basis, so I figured I could phone in a post by sharing it with you:
If there is one thing that makes conservatives absolutely crazy (besides liberals and poor people and homosexuals and government and brown people and Social Security and Medicare and abortion and science and intellectuals with their so-called “knowledge” and clean air and clean water and good looking women who won’t sleep with them probably because they’re dykes, yeah, that’s it and foreigners with their weird not-english languages and. oh yeah, sarcasm that always seems to be directed at them and then there’s Hollywood and hip hop music and how Dateline and that snoopy busybody Chris Hansen have made it almost impossible to find a date online and also that Kenyan muslim President guy who is very annoying because … did I mention that he’s black?) it’s the fact that conservatives can’t pry the youth of America away from their tattoos and their texting and casual swapping of STD’s long enough to teach them about how awesome America is.
Yep, sounds like the annoying Religious Right hacks we deal with. Replace “America” with “tradishunl murge” and you’ve got the National Organization for Marriage and Bryan Fischer and all points between. Thanks for ‘splaining that so concisely, TBogg!
We talk about gays a lot, since we’re, you know, fighting for our rights and trying our damnedest to correct and counter amoral liars like Bryan Fischer. But wow, Bryan talks about gays a lot! You’d think a heterosexual man from Idaho wouldn’t be so obsessed with something that supposedly has so little to do with him.
RELATED: Since Bryan Fischer is a champion of the easily debunked lie [little he says has any relation to the truth -- that's why his group, the American Family Association is called a Hate Group] that gays were the major driving force behind the Third Reich and thus the Holocaust, Jonathan Zimmerman has an important piece out calling for the Republican presidential goats who have appeared on Fischer’s radio program, or who have ties to the American Family Assocation, to publicly repudiate Fischer’s pathetic, hateful nonsense. We understand that Bryan’s compelling need to smear and lie about gay people, day in, day out, could possibly be a symptom of some sort of psychological problem. We couldn’t speculate on what it might be, but we’re sure we would make fun of it if we knew. Regardless, Bryan Fischer is basically Fred Phelps without the sense of comedic timing, and grown-up candidates for the highest office in the land have no business associating with his kind.
