Good As You: AFA Roundup
02/03/2012
AFA still attacking Ellen, still showing ugly 'culture war' truth
The anti-LGBT far-right is of course known for nasty attacks that make mountains out of 'mo heals. But with the latest war against J.C. Penney for doing nothing more than hiring beloved talk show host and Disney fish Ellen Degeneres...
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01/19/2012
Video: The true Tony Perkins. The one you won't see on tomorrow's 'Morning Joe'
Tomorrow morning, MSNBC will yet again host Tony Perkins on their airwaves, this time on the "Morning Joe" program. if history is any guide, Tony will again be presented as little more than a conservative pundit with insight into the...
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01/06/2012
'HIV doesn't cause AIDS', says dangerous mythmaker who recently spoke alongside GOP presidential candidates
Bryan Fischer gets key bookings within the conservative establishment, which recently included a plum gig at the Family Research Council's Values Voters Summit, right behind GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney: So what does Bryan do to earn such shoulder-rubbing access? Oh,...
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12/14/2011
Video: AFA's year-end pitch: The definition of H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S
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12/12/2011
Video: Disliking Rick Perry's resoundingly hated ad = bigotry
More from the down-is-up world from which Bryan Fischer pundits: - REMINDER: This is the same Bryan Fischer who's said "Homosexuals in the military gave us...six million dead Jews". The guy who's said "homosexuals should be disqualified from public office,"...
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11/15/2011
SPLC profiles man who AFA has yet to realize is single-handedly sealing org's irrelevancy
The Southern Poverty Law Center has published an exhaustive report on the American Family Association's Liability in Chief, Bryan Fischer. Worth a read: The Story Behind the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer [SPLC] - ADDED INSIGHT: This is the same...
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09/26/2011
Gays 'defying God's natural laws': The widely unaddressed belief hiding behind 'protect marriage' masks
Usually we activists have to prod and dig a little bit to get opposition voices to admit the personally-targeted goals that underly the "protect marriage", "traditional values" movement. But sometimes we get folks like Michael Youssef, columnist for the American...
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08/22/2011
Video: Bryan Fischer books guest from outside own echo chamber; still listens to only his own echos
Bryan Fischer probably thinks he sounds tough in this, his attempt to make teacher Jerry Buell's case a "free speech" matter that constitutes an anti-religious "hate crime" and his overall effort to chastise anyone who understands the obvious reasons why...
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08/17/2011
Bryan Fischer's definition of marriage: The man always gets final say
Lest you think the American Family Association staffers' desire to define people's unions is limited to same-sex couples: "Marriage is not and can never be a democracy. Somebody has to have the tie-breaking vote when the poll reveals a one-to-one...
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08/03/2011
Video: 'Nothing But Truth'? Try 'Nothing abutting truth'
Gays are not "made" human beings' male and female gender states somehow negate one whole part of the sexual orientation spectrum homosexuality constitutes sex outside of marriage on par with adultery gay men are incapable and non-desirous of monogamous commitment...
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08/02/2011
AFA rips, reuploads, reinterprets video as if it's their own; feign surprise if you wish
The American Family Association is distributing a video, uploaded to their own YouTube channel, wherein the SPLC-designated "hate group" decries Home Depot for having a truck in the San Francisco LGBT Pride parade: [SOURCE: AFA's YouTube] Only problem (besides the...
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07/22/2011
Bearing false wire service: American Family Association still twisting AP stories to fit own agenda
The American Family Association is up to its old tricks again, repurposing Associated Press wire stories to fit the organization's anti-gay agenda. Here, check out the way a straightforward wire story on Wednesday's DOMA hearing reads in any number of...
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07/20/2011
Audio: For those who claim 'pray away the gay' is unfair rhetorical reduction, I give you Bryan Fischer…
"We know as an absolute fact, as a religious principle, as a theological principle, as a deeply-held principle of the word of God, that change in sexual orientation is possible -- happens all the time. And we know it can...
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07/18/2011
Audio: 'Ex-gay' is its own orientation; if you, like credible science, fail to honor that, then you're a hater
A few days ago, we showed you how the National Organization For Marriage was inching ever closer to "ex-gay" advocacy, pushing the words of PFOX president Greg Quinlan. Now listen to this very same Greg Quinlan that NOM was pushing...
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07/14/2011
Audio: Conservatives defend Bachmann by *more fully* pushing 'ex-gay' therapy; That's good for us
One thing that's surprised me about the conservative community's response to the Michele/Marcus Bachmann "ex-gay" debacle is how strongly her defenders, even more moderate ones, have jumped in to defend the scientifically-discredited "therapy" that's now under the media microscope. Now...
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07/13/2011
AFA fans global anti-gay flames; like Jesus would've, natch
Stay classy, American Family Association: [American Family Association's One News Now site] Because you know, why not plant such seeds against your fellow citizens? "Traditional values" and all. But wait, there's more than just the headline! In this same piece,...
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07/01/2011
Bryan Fischer says one gay kills the GOP; yet to accuse gay of wanting to sleep with elephant's carcass (though track record suggests it's coming)
You may have heard that a Log Cabin Republican is joining the Republican National Committee's finance team. What you might not have heard is that this will officially kill the Republican party. At least according to the American Family Association's...
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06/28/2011
Video: Gays incapable of settling, says reliably unsettled Bryan Fischer
I've been with one man, going on eight years. Going on life. In Bryan Fischer's world, I do not exist: [Right Wing Watch] *REMINDER: This is the same Bryan Fischer who's said "Homosexuals in the military gave us...six million dead...
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06/24/2011
Video: SHOCKING - AFA exposes what Home Depot isn't trying to hide!
For some politicos, it's the Zapruder film. For the American Family Association, It's footage from corporate-inclusive Pride parades that gets their wheels a'spinnin: Not sure which is our favorite part: The dramatic close up on the blurry HRC sticker, the...
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06/17/2011
Video: Right Wing Watch watches wing's 'rightest' feather
What it is: Four Minutes of Hate: The Naked Bigotry Of The AFA's Bryan Fischer [RWW] Why it matters in the larger political context: PFAW Exposes Bryan Fischer With Lawrence O'Donnell [RWW]
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06/12/2011
'A communistic agenda to destroy this nation'? Excellent question, caller!
Christy in Jacksonville, TX, knows the way to the American Family Association's heart: "Isn't homosexuality and this flood of filth that's happened to America, isn't that part of a communistic agenda to Destroy America?" [American Family Association] "Excellent question"? Really?...
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06/07/2011
Video: Accusing the President of hating the army (like Jesus would, natch)
Earlier today, I opined on the careless rhetoric the opposition uses to keep thinks like inclusive service up before public debate. So I now want to thank the American Family Association's Tim Wildmon and the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins...
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06/02/2011
Audio: AFA speaks at Home Depot meeting; Sadly, 'your patio furniture is fabulous' was not the delivered message
The American Family Association (recognized as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, let us remind you) is continuing along its quest to confine lumber and caulk to only the heterosexual consumer. So at today's annual shareholder meeting,...
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Video: Bryan warns of gay-inclusive army's 'virtual genocide'; we continue to note Bryan-inclusive conservatives' actual debilitation
Interestingly, the American Family Association has stopped putting Bryan Fischer clips on its daily updated YouTube channel. Interesting, but not surprising: Fischer: Gay Activists Will Commit "Virtual Genocide" Against Christian Soldiers [RWW] The obvious truth: Bryan Fischer is an extreme...
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04/20/2011
SPLC 'hate group' plans to inundate Chick-fil-A with paper: Worse for environment or Chick's PR dept?
Ya know, it's interesting --- the American Family Association surely thinks they are helping with this effort: [SOURCE] But one has to wonder: Does the fast food chain, which has been so eager to downplay the eyebrow-raisers that have surrounded...
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04/07/2011
Truancy for Homo-Hostility: 2011 edition
This from the ever-prioritized American Family Association: The Day of Silence, which is sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), fast approaches. This year it will take place in most public schools on April 15. On this...
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04/05/2011
Bryan Fischer: People run for office to either slight or praise Jesus
Bryan Fischer's sadly cynical, unsurprisingly reductive explanation of why people pursue elected office: People pursue public office for one of two reasons, one contrary to the spirit of Christ, the other consistent with it. Some - perhaps most - pursue...
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04/04/2011
AFA's Don Wildmon: Television 'worst thing that ever happened to America'
Sorry for the oversight, all actual worst things. *** *RELATED: Think Progress' Igor Volsky pressed GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich on his cozy relationship with Wildmon's AFA: Gingrich Insists Anti-Gay Hate Group He Funded Is Not A Hate Group [The...
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02/21/2011
Bryan Fischer ready to lead modern marriage movement; we second the NOMination
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, defiant as always: "This battle is not over, not by a long shot, and will not ever be as long as we defenders of natural marriage have breath left in our bodies. We will...
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02/18/2011
Bryan Fischer tired of getting blistered; we're tired of him attributing every societal blister to our bedrooms
And now this lesson on civil discourse from a man whose all but obliterated the concept: [AFA] *** *The "civil" things Bryan Fischer considers to be true: He's the guy who said "Homosexuals in the military gave us...six million dead...
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02/17/2011
Video: You pushed a bad vote, AFA. You didn't bind our minds or mouths!
- Continued overlooking of the 6,410,482 residents who cast a principled vote against discrimination, with all involved acting as if only the 7,001,084 Californians who voted in favor of Proposition 8 matter in this ongoing conversation. - Continued attempt to...
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02/10/2011
In which the AFA's war on fair discourse turns in-house
Of course they did: AFA removes article at odds with Bryan Fischer on Native Americans [Warren Throckmorton] Seriously: When did the American Family Association become the "Bryan Fischer Adoration Society"? I mean, fine -- good for us. But seriously: What...
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02/09/2011
AFA staffer to Bryan Fischer: 'I want to officially reject and distance myself from that viewpoint'
Finally, an American Family Association staffer is calling out that organization's suddenly most omnipresent spokesperson, Bryan Fischer: "Native Americans were immoral, so they deserved what happened to them? I find the idea repulsive. Yesterday, Bryan Fischer posted a blog about...
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02/07/2011
Rest of 'pro-family' movement: Does this man's prominence not concern any of you?
Some truisms on life: The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Into human lungs flows oxygen, out flows carbon dioxide. What goes up eventually comes down. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Where there's a "Jersey Shore" cast...
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01/31/2011
Video: Bryan Fischer makes fair and measured statements on range of subjects
Just kidding. It's really just more of the same myopic extremism we're used to hearing from Bryan: *** *For those not familiar with Bryan Fischer: He's the guy who said "Homosexuals in the military gave us...six million dead Jews." He's...
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01/28/2011
Video: Not to be confused with seitan's strategy of feeding vegetarians
No word on whether Satan is responsible for apostrophe oversights. But Bryan Fischer will use this typographically-fallen video to warn you about the red basement-dweller's influence in other areas: [American Family Association] *** Bryan's version of truth: "Homosexuals in the...
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01/27/2011
Video: And now Bryan Fischer will 'explain' science, matter, evolution:
*** **FOR THOSE NOT FAMILIAR WITH FISCHER: He's the guy who's said that "homosexuals in the military gave us...six million dead Jews," who's said "homosexuals should be disqualified from public office," who has called on Christian conservatives to breed gays...
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01/18/2011
Flashback Tuesday: When the AFA sniffed out a 'Mighty' silly target
22+ years ago, long before the organization's daily attacks on gays, the American Family Association was going after flower-addicted cartoon rodents: Two decades later, this organization is still setting misguided traps. At some point, an America that truly values its...
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01/05/2011
The (far-)right tool for screwing gay soldiers: Go to AFA, not Home Depot
Considering all credible polls show Americans supporting Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal by somewhere in the ballpark of 60-70%, we're thinking the American Family Association might want to reconsider its strategy here: The nation's largest homosexual activist group, Human Rights...
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01/04/2011
50 equality-less states. DADT. Now tax-supported 'mo cure hunts? The AFA's lost sacred cows never cease!
You know that recently passed measure in California (AB 2199) that did nothing more than strike down the outdated, offensive language from the 1950s that had instructed the State Department of Mental Health to conduct research into the "causes and...
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Video: Protect the sanctity of sophomoric 'humor'
What's the American Family Association's big takeaway from Captain Owen Honors' video controversy? That once Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is all said and the done, the right of religious people to use "Saturday Night Live type" anti-gay, anti-woman slurs...
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12/30/2010
Fischer's idea of a truce: Gays sit down, shut up, and hope American Pie flakes off a few crumbs
Bryan Fischer works the fundamental misrepresentation that keeps anti-gay "culture warring" rooted into the realm of American pastime: A “truce” would have been homosexual activists coming to the FRC and AFA and saying, hey, we won’t push gays in the...
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12/27/2010
Bow to foreign biases: AFA's Smith mines commonality from homo-hostility
The far right's latest talking point regarding DADT repeal? The one that says pro-equality activists are being culturally insensitive to those who "potential adversaries" who wish to dislike LGBT people. This from the American Family Association's David P. Smith: The...
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Bryan Fischer belies movement's fanciful productions, admits military to become more equal
The American Family Association's liability of an employee, Bryan Fischer, has posted one of his most interesting pieces to date. Because while sure, the column is filled with the same sort of anti-gay aggression for which Fischer is known and...
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12/20/2010
America on the ropes, says 'pro-family' group on the wane
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer: Rarely can you point to a moment in time when a nation consigned itself to the scrap heap of history. Today, when the Senate normalized sexual perversion in the military, was that moment for...
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12/14/2010
Professed supporters stood with procedural obstruction -- yet repeal *backers* are the arm-twisters?!
In their latest call to action against Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal, the American Family Association says the following about the Senators who voted against the National Defense Authorization Act but who will likely support standalone repeal: Some Senators who...
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12/03/2010
Video: War involves killing and being killed -- yet it's the *while gay* part that concerns God?!
"The Gaying of America" [AFA] Such priorities. ** *One more from AFA Radio's esteemed annals: Tony Perkins says the anti-LGBT Manhattan Declaration is nothing more than reinforcement of the Declaration of Independence's preamble: *SEE ALSO: Our post on the Manhattan...
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Gay groups are cold-hearted, hateful, and cruel, says man who blames gays for six million dead Jews
So many social conservatives simply love, love, love the fact that a crude and cruel disease hit the gay population in this country (as opposed to other countries) earliest and hardest. None more so than the American Family Association's in-house...
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11/29/2010
In fact we're so into stifling Bryan's speech that we'll now write our 47th post about him
Bryan Fischer's words pretty much single-handedly landed the American Family Association on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate groups list. So it's no surprise that Bryan would be touchy about SPLC's role in the public discourse: Thus, in a strange...
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11/24/2010
Bryan Fischer: Pentagon doesn't realize God will nuke an inclusive armed forces
And now another charming minute with the "pro-family" liability that is the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer: "A military that is weakened spiritually is a military that is a weakened fighting force. The ancient Scriptures still have it right: “Unless...
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