Monday, March 21, 2011

Brody's Notes & Scribbles... AFA Spokesman Uses Racist Term To Refer To President Obama

By Brody Levesque (Washington DC) MAR 21 | In what has become a sadly numbing routine exercise for those of us whom report on the public utterances of the Anti-Gay Christian Right, yet again one of their lead spokesman, the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, has made a public statement that leaves one speechless with its racist tone. Worse, its patently obvious Fischer intentionally chose the term he used not only just for the shock value but its impact.
The tweet, which is pictured to the right, comes via Pam Spaulding's Pam's House Blend who noted by quoting columnist Alvin McEwen's take on this disgusting tweet:
I dare anyone to tell me that this isn't a racist statement.
Two things need to be noted here:
1. I doubt the AFA will take any action against Fischer. I mean the man has
  • Said that "homosexuals should be disqualified from public office." (8/5/2010)
  • Insisted that gays are biased, sexually deviant felons, not to mention pedophiles, and should never serve on the Supreme Court. (4/15/2010, 4/16/2010)
  • Called gay adoption "a terrible, terrible, inexcusable, inhumane thing to do to children." (8/10/2010)
  • Argued that we should"impose the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on those who engage in intravenous drug abuse." (2/3/2010)
  • Wrote: "The inescapable conclusion is that gay sex is a form of domestic terrorism." (6/10/2010)
  • Said: "Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals." (5/25/2010)
If the AFA has not put a kibosh on Fischer's mouth after all of this, what makes anyone think that the supposed Christian group will condemn his racial slur of President Obama?
2. All of those African-American pastors and churches who are aligning themselves with the religious right need to take note. Will your "friends" will condemn Fischer's comments or will they pretend not to notice? You need to face facts. These folks do not care about you or African-American issues. And as quick as they play you against the lgbt community, they will turn their backs on you.
One wonders how many of them think of you in the same manner that Fischer thinks of Obama.
I don't have much to add to Alvin's words above except that given this trash talking moron's penchant for insulting his fellow human beings on a regular basis, maybe it's time that anyone who has a shred of decency who professes to be a Christian leader, pastor, or priest makes an effort to get the AFA to cease giving this clown a platform for his hatred.
Oh, and the AFA wonders why the Southern Poverty Law Centre labeled them a hate group?

1 comments:

Trab said...

The AFA doesn't wonder why the Southern Poverty Law Centre has labelled them a hate group; it is because of the anti-Christian bias by the demons infesting the SPLC, of course. I mean, what else could it possibly be???