Good As You: AFA Roundup
11/20/2012
The American Family Association: 'War on Christmas' hypocrites (/chickens)
The AFA has announced its big three targets in this year's War on Christmas: AFA is calling for a limited two-month boycott of Gap, Old Navy and Banana Republic, the three stores owned by San Francisco-based Gap Inc., over the...
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11/07/2012
AFA's Tim Wildmon: Secular Jews hate Christianity; 'associate it with Naziism'
MUST HEAR claims from one of America's leading anti-LGBT voices, American Family Association president Tim Wildmon: (first voice is cohost Ed Vitagliano) "Today's Issues"—11/7/2012 [AFA Radio] The nasty, divisive claims that these groups peddle never stop at just gays. You...
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10/31/2012
Bryan Fischer laments consenting adults' decriminalization
From the American Family Association's number one spokesman: [Bryan Fischer] But hey, it's not like this guy is GOP-connected enough to earn speaking slots that immediately follow the current presidential nominee. [Family Research Council's 2011 Value Voters Summit] Oh. Right.
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10/18/2012
CNN's Costello *really* got under Bryan Fischer's skin
Remember that interview where CNN anchor Carol Costello noted just one of the thousands of unbelievable claims that have come out of Bryan Fischer's mouth (in this case, his claim about only gays being savage enough for Hitler), leading him...
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10/15/2012
'NY Times' positions Bryan Fischer as mere 'issues analyst', AFA as mere 'evangelical group'
Because we cannot remind you enough—this is Bryan Fischer: - On multiple occasions, called for an “Underground Railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households” - Says about LGBT activists: "We cannot accommodate, we can't compromise, we can't find middle...
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08/28/2012
The old normal: Far-right heterosexual Christians denigrating other family forms
FULL PIECE: [AFA] Right. Because not all of us can reach the lofty broadcast standards of one Bryan J Fischer.
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08/10/2012
Thanks for taking my call, Bryan; long time listener, first time stalker
The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer hosts a daily radio show. I run a daily operation that monitors anti-LGBT media. In my role, I'm tasked with tracking those who routinely knock the LGBT community. Bryan is one such person. In...
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08/08/2012
Bryan Fischer continues to suggest kidnapping gay people's kids; any of you 'values' folks care to say something?!
Any of you social conservatives who so regularly accuse LGBT activists of being insensitive (or even offensive) to prior civil rights movements care to speak out against one of your own? This man—an American Family Association top dog who, might...
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08/06/2012
Audio: Add the Underground Railroad to Bryan Fischer's list of ahistorical offenses
For background of the Lisa Miller story, see this extensive piece. For an extremely offensive take on this and every household involving same-sex parents, listen to Bryan Fischer compare "freeing" kids of gays to freeing the slaves: [AFAl] Which name...
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08/02/2012
Bryan Fischer pits that fast food company against 'sodomy-besotted media', 'crime against nature'
From the American Family Association's most visible face: "Despite the constant bleating and bloating of a sodomy-besotted media, the American people know that marriage is an institution created and designed by God. What God has defined, man must not redefine....
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07/26/2012
Audio: This is the one where AFA's Tim Wildmon says LGBT groups are 'vile in many ways'
More wholesome, good natured values from Chick-fil-A's most supportive group: American Family Association radio (around 2:50 mark) [AFA] So wait—because we take principled stands against the kinds of people who call us "vile" for taking principled against the kinds of...
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Why do we talk so much about LGBT rights? Because they are targeting us every hour, on the hour!
When people ask why we in the LGBT community focus so much attention on the conservatives' political fight against us, consider something like this. This is what the American Family Association, which just announced that it has joined with NOM...
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07/23/2012
AFA says Office Depot is pushing 'poor and dangerous choice'; not referring to company's paper options
The American Family Association has found yet another company that is too accepting for their organizational liking. The latest target is Office Depot and, specifically, the company's partnership with Lady Gaga's Born This Way foundation: Office Depot's support for the...
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07/17/2012
Noted peddler of extremism: 'The Boy Scouts called me' about gay policy
Immediately following a tirade wherein he once again denied that HIV causes AIDS (linking it to poppers instead), the single most anti-LGBT voice working today, Bryan Fischer, revealed the following about the cozy relationship between the Boy Scouts and the...
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06/12/2012
'New Yorker' covers Fischer, the thorn that Mitt Romney is scared to piss off
If you care about this whole "culture war," I highly recommend checking out the latest issue of The New Yorker, where you can find a ten page profile of the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer. From Bryan's telling fascination with...
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06/05/2012
VIDEO: AFA so tired of talking about gay stuff; here's thirteen minutes of the AFA talking about gay stuff
Buster Wilson says that he and his colleagues at the American Family Association wonder: "Is all the world gay now?" A view that is, no doubt, informed by the fact that the AFA is more obsessed with LGBT chatter than...
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06/01/2012
Bryan Fischer: Gays deserve discrimination (like those who 'eat the faces off homeless people')
This man—who, I might remind you, spoke immediately after Mitt Romney at the Family Research Council's most recent Value Voters Summit—continues to outdo himself: Public policy is about discriminating against behaviors that are socially destructive and corrosive to the social...
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05/24/2012
Target seeks Pride; AFA seeks fall
Oh, Target. The company really just wants to add a little chichi caché to the discount retail experience, yet it seems that every couple of years, it can't help but find itself involved in a political controversy. Recently, said controversies...
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05/21/2012
AFA back to attacking 'deviant and unhealthy' DeGeneres
The American Family Association's Monica Cole (of AFA's so-called One Million Moms) is claiming, without a scintilla of proof, that Ellen DeGeneres is destroying J.C. Penney's bottom line: "Sales have plummeted since J.C. Penney showed their new, bold marketing strategy,...
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They really don't think they verbally abuse us; that's a big problem
This tweet, courtesy of the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, stopped me in my tracks: If you're a regular G-A-Y reader, you surely know that Bryan Fischer is one of the most extreme voices in the far-right sphere. Or actually,...
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05/15/2012
Video: Hutcherson & Fischer: It's up to us to make Romney fire every Richard Grenell
Two of the most outwardly LGBT-hostile voices working today talk about how "maneuverable" Mitt Romney will be if they only raise their voices. Oh, and also about how we stole the word "gay" from Christians. Go: *More about Fischer *More...
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05/07/2012
Buzzfeed brings more light to far-right's biggest liability
For the religious right, there is no possible good that can come from Bryan Fischer's raised profile. Bryan Fischer's rhetoric—long familiar to regular G-A-Y readers—blows the lid right off of the usual "nice" mask that his "pro-family" conservatives prefer to...
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04/26/2012
A year in a peculiarly obsessed life—Bryan Fischer edition
I don't have the wherewithal to put these in chronological order. After seeing the kind of things I have to read all year, who can blame me? Eh, it's good to have a hobby, I guess.
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04/16/2012
'The Advocate' launched in '67; the AFA out-gayed it in '77
Of the seven "hot topics" the American Family Association has under current focus, only one (the Hardee's/Carl's Jr. one) is about something other than LGBT matters: Just another reason why LGBT issues are always in play whenever these "pro-family" folks...
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02/29/2012
Progress, illustrated: Archie Comics proudly stands against AFA
The unintentional comics at the American Family Association thought they could bully a much more valued, much more pointedly comical American institution. They were wrong: “We stand by Life with Archie #16. As I’ve said before, Riverdale is a safe,...
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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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