What Makes Tax Breaks So Homophobic? The American Family Association.
Bryan Fischer has a cure for AIDS, and despite being fired from his own church, is instrumental in making staff and policy decisions for the Romney campaign without ever talking to anyone at the campaign. Is he God? No - but you should fear him!
The American Family Association hasn’t made headlines in the last couple years like they used to. Part of the reason for that is their outlandish, anachronistic cultural stance (read: racist, sexist, homophobic misreading of the Bible and insistence on its insertion into the constitution.) But they are the driving force behind the Republican primaries and why seemingly rational Republicans who just want fewer taxes and a bigger Dept. of Defense start advocating for school prayer and DOMA.
NPR and The New Yorker recently highlighted the AFA’s Director of Issues Analysis, Bryan Fischer, and one thing’s for sure - this man is interesting! (He’s a lot of other things tool, but I’ll leave that for you to decide.) Having been fired from a church he founded for being too sexist (he wouldn’t allow women to teach Sunday school), he still wields a lot of power. Most recently, he was behind the Romney campaign’s forcing resignation on their foreign policy spokesperson, Richard Grenell, because Grenell is gay. But the investigative pieces go way beyond sodomy…
I highly recommend both pieces - npr & the new yorker.
