Wow. If you’re looking for some serious projection and hypocrisy, the Huffington Post has some astonishingly blatant examples of it. A whole gaggle of wingnut leaders is claiming that if Romney wins the Republican nomination, the Obama administration will attack him for his Mormon religion:
Someone suggested that I name an award after Bryan Fischer, given to those who engage in hypocritical statements about their own defense of principle while consistently violating that principle in practice or who suffer from massive psychological projection in accusing their enemies of doing the very thing they do themselves. Finding candidates for this award should be trivially easy. The first nominee is Colby May, director of the American Center for Law and Justice.
Bryan Fischer’s speech at the Values Voters Summit was even dumber than expected — which hardly seems possible.
“I submit to you that not a single one of our unalienable rights will be safe,” Fischer said, “in the hands of a president who believes that we evolved from slime and that we are the descendents of apes and baboons.” Fischer called the separation of church and state “mythical” and argued that a result of secular government and the theory of evolution result in mass murder like in Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Maoist China.
Of all the people lately taking a stab at disproving evolution, Bryan Fischer makes the most idiotic attempt. It’s so bad there’s little point in even answering it point by point. I’ll let the commenters have a go at it just for fun.
This one is just funny:
Our military strength is a function of our spiritual strength. We can have the strongest and mightiest military in the world in terms of guns and ammunition and tanks and soldiers, but if we are not spiritually strong as a people, we can be defeated, we can and will suffer defeat. So it is absolutely critical for us who care about this nation, who care about the United States, to say “look, we have got to be spiritually strong as a people if we are going to be militarily strong.”
That’s why it is so important that we have in the military men of faith, men of Christian faith, who are in touch with God and with the spirit of God. Because when they come together to formulate battle plans, their minds are going to be quickened by the Holy Spirit of God and under his nudgings, his promptings, they’re going to be able to develop battle plans that are going to lead to victory on the field of conflict.
This one is just funny:
Our military strength is a function of our spiritual strength. We can have the strongest and mightiest military in the world in terms of guns and ammunition and tanks and soldiers, but if we are not spiritually strong as a people, we can be defeated, we can and will suffer defeat. So it is absolutely critical for us who care about this nation, who care about the United States, to say “look, we have got to be spiritually strong as a people if we are going to be militarily strong.”
That’s why it is so important that we have in the military men of faith, men of Christian faith, who are in touch with God and with the spirit of God. Because when they come together to formulate battle plans, their minds are going to be quickened by the Holy Spirit of God and under his nudgings, his promptings, they’re going to be able to develop battle plans that are going to lead to victory on the field of conflict.
Like our friend Pat, Bryan Fischer seems to be utterly oblivious to his own obvious contradictions. As Right Wing Watch points out, he recently claimed that calling people names — especially calling them Nazis — is proof that someone has lost the argument:
And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, this is a clear indication that the Left has lost the argument and the debate in public policy. Because name-calling is the first refuge of a man who does not have an argument. As soon as someone starts calling you names, then realize they’re out of ammunition, they’re out of arguments. They can’t reason with you any longer, they don’t have facts on their side, they don’t have reason on their side, they don’t have logic on their side, they don’t have history on their side, they don’t have research on their side, they don’t have science on their side so they start calling you things like a “Nazi gas bag.”
Warren Throckmorton does a thorough fisking of a segment on Bryan Fischer’s radio show with an appallingly bad psychologist named Tim Rampey. Rampey was trying to argue that homosexuality was a learned behavior shaped only by environment and his evidence for this was a study on rats and a study on humans that found that gay men tend to have worse relationships with their father than straight men.
If you actually take Alan Bell’s study, the differences are huge. The number of heterosexuals who said that they were disliked or hated by their fathers was less than half than those who said such among the homosexuals.
Archbigot Bryan Fischer loves him some Michele and Marcus Bachmann bigotry. He’s been defending them over the proof that their clinic performs gay reparation therapy, saying stupid things like this:
The Bible teaches that a change in sexual orientation is possible. This is a biblical principle, it is a biblical proclamation, it is a biblical assertion and Marcus Bachmann and his wife Michele Bachmann believe that. They believe that sexual orientation, a change in sexual orientation, is possible because that’s what the Bible teaches. So that makes this attack on them a blatant example of religious bigotry.
Jon Rowe here. A little while ago I refuted this article by Bryan Fischer that claimed America’s Founders as evangelical Christians. I’m not sure if he’s replying to me in this article (rather he replies to some unnamed secularist whom he insults); but he doubles down on an error all too commonly made by Christian Nationalist history revisionists.
People for the American Way have put together a report on Bryan Fischer. Here’s the introduction:
Responsible politicians wouldn’t fawn over an unhinged activist who opposes civil rights and religious freedom for minorities, wants to make being gay a crime and decries his personal rivals as enemies of God, right? But that is exactly what is taking place today in the Republican Party, as likely and declared GOP presidential candidates line up to win the approval of Bryan Fischer, a radio talk show host and spokesman for the American Family Association.
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