Christine O'Donnell

• PFAW: Senate GOP Blocks Corporate Campaign Disclosure Vote for the Second Time.
• Eric Lach @ TPM: Sen. Chambliss' Office Says It Was Source Of 'Faggot' Comment.
• Justin Elliott @ Salon: The militias' man in the Senate?
• Alexander C. Hart @ TNR: Lying With Graphs, Republican Style (Now Featuring 50% More Graphs).
• Rachel Tabachnick @ Talk To Action: Ask Christine O'Donnell the Right Questions - Not if She is a Witch.
• Rob Boston @ AU: Giving The Devil His Due: FRC Staffer Says Americans Who Fail To Toe The Religious Right Line Are Serving Satan.
• Timothy Kincaid @ Box Turtle Bulletin: Star Parker, JC Watts and Bishop Harry Jackson file amicus brief for Prop 8 Proponents.
• Joe.My.God: Juice Boxes Make You Gay!

• A Florida appeals court struck down the state's ban on gay adoption and Liberty Counsel does not approve.
• Did you know that Christine O'Donnell's S.A.L.T used to be closely affiliated with Rob Schenck's Faith and Action?
• Speaking of O'Donnell, looks like she has hired the same attorneys who represented Harry Jackson in his fight against marriage equality in Washington DC.
• And speaking of Harry Jackson, he says President Obama and the Congressional Black Caucus are are trying to "keep naive African Americans on the political plantation through the mid-term and next presidential elections."
• Rep. Pete Sessions has reportedly dropped out of attending the Log Cabin Republican fundraiser.
• Ken Cuccinelli thanks Mike Huckabee and HuckPAC for thanking him.
• Finally, every member of Glenn Beck's "Black Robe Brigade" is an apostate.

• Rep. Mike Pence won the Values Voter Straw Poll.
• The Religious Right is confident that its issues will be included in the forthcoming House GOP Contract with America.
• Mike Huckabee says "contrary to published reports I believe that there is a way to cover people with pre-existing conditions" and says they "should be covered and can be covered by individual states creating pools that provide coverage for people in high-risk categories."
• Bryan Fischer continues to pen column after column rooted entirely in his own ignorance, declaring with finality that "we have won the global warming debate."
• Apparently, Christine O'Donnell's past statements are too much for even CWA to defend, leaving them to simply attack the media and conservative men. 
• Quote of the day from Peter Sprigg opposing repeal of DADT on the grounds that it'll force the US taxpayers to support all those soldiers who get AIDS: "This creates a financial problem, since taxpayers will have to pay for the health care of HIV-infected service members for the rest of their lives through the military and veterans’ health programs."
• The AFA's Don Wildom received the James C. Dobson Vision and Leadership Award at the Values Voter Summit - here is the intro video they produced:

• Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: Stone the Whales! Gay Sex is Terrorism! Muslims Suck!
• Michelle Goldberg @ The Daily Beast: My Ex-Gay Life With the Tea Party Queen.
• Raw Story: Christine O’Donnell: School shootings caused by lack of Bible and prayer studies.
• Rachel Slajda @ TPM: Christine O'Donnell's Sexual Evolution.
• Ben Armbruster @ Think Progress: SC Senator Defends Slave Photo: ‘It’s A Great Statement As To How Far The State Has Come’.
• Joe.My.God: Brittany Novotny Vs. Sally Kern.
• Amanda Terkel @ Huffington Post: 'Values Voter Summit' Will Likely Be Missing Jewish Voters: Conservative Conference Coincides With Yom Kippur.
• Greg Sargent: Cornyn: GOP's stance on social issues alienating independents.
• Brian Beutler @ TPM: Vitter Pledge To Tea Party: 'I Will Conduct Myself...In A Morally And Socially Appropriate Manner'.

People For's President, Michael Keegan, sent the following letter today to Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, and Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell, all of whom are scheduled to appear this weekend at the Values Voter Summit, alongside the virulantly anti-Muslim and anti-gay Bryan Fischer.

Dear ________:

I am writing to express my concern about your appearance this weekend at the upcoming Values Voter Summit. Among the participants this weekend will be Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association. We urge you to publically denounce Fischer’s record of hate speech and extremism, and reconsider appearing beside him this weekend.

People For’s RightWingWatch.org blog has tracked Fischer’s career over the past several years. His long and prolific record of hate speech and extremism includes the following recent statements. Just in the past year, Fischer has:

• Demanded that no new mosques be built anywhere in America. (8/10/2010)

• Argued that inbreeding has caused Muslims to be stupid and violent. (9/10/2010)

• Said that Muslims should be banned from serving in the U.S. military. (11/9/2009)

• Insisted that all Muslims are traitors, called for the deportation of all Muslims from the U.S. (4/10/2010)

• Claimed that U.S. service members died in vain because the U.S. failed to make Iraq a Christian nation. (8/19/2010)

• 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)

• Disparaged family values in the Hispanic community, saying “Also, the illegitimacy rate among Hispanic women is over 50%. I’m not sure pro-family values are as strong in the Hispanic community as Dr. Land wants to believe.” (7/23/2010)

• Called the President a “fascist dictator” for taking steps to hold BP accountable for the Gulf oil spill: “And remember the President's been a fascist ... he says ‘I've been a fascist from day one. They can't blow their nose without asking permission from me, they can't clean the wax out of their ears unless they get a sign-off from me.’ That's what fascist dictators do!” (6/18/2010)

I am attaching the names of over 6,500 concerned citizens who have signed the following letter regarding your participation in the summit:

Values Voter Summit Participants:

Reasonable people can, and do, have reasonable differences of opinion. Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association, is not a reasonable person.

By sharing a stage with Fischer at this year's Values Voter Summit, public figures acknowledge the credibility of his shameless anti-Muslim and anti-gay propaganda. Any candidate thinking seriously of running for president in 2012 should think twice about standing alongside a man who has called for the deportation of all Muslims in America; insulted Muslim servicemembers; claimed that brave Americans died in vain because Iraq was not converted to Christianity; and called gay people deviants, felons, pedophiles and terrorists. Bryan Fischer is no mainstream conservative. And neither is any person who shares a platform with him while refusing to denounce his hate-filled propaganda.

We urge you to denounce Fischer's extremism and separate yourself from his comments.

For more background on Fischer’s extreme rhetoric, please click here.

Fischer’s appearance with conservative leaders such as yourself lends his extreme hate speech credibility. We urge you to publicly denounce Fischer’s record and to think twice about sharing the stage with him.

Sincerely,

Michael B. Keegan
President, People For the American Way

Prepare the hero's welcome, because Christine O'Donnell is coming to the Values Voter Summit:

FRC Action PAC-endorsed candidate Christine O'Donnell is confirmed to speak Friday afternoon, September 17 at FRC Action's fifth annual Values Voter Summit. This will be the Delaware Republican Senate nominee's first address to a national gathering of conservative activists since defeating Rep. Mike Castle (R-DE) on Tuesday.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA), Gov. Mike Huckabee, Gov. Mitt Romney, Reps. Mike Pence (R-IN) and Michele Bachmann (R-MN), David Limbaugh, Dr. Bill Bennett, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and Phyllis Schalfly are among the confirmed speakers attending the Summit from September 17-18 at the Omni Shoreham in Washington, D.C.

Family Research Council Action PAC Chairman Tony Perkins made the following comments:

"We are pleased to announce that Christine O'Donnell will join us to speak at the Values Voter Summit. We applaud her for valiantly defending faith, family and freedom throughout this campaign.

"Christine O'Donnell has spoken out on behalf of the average person in her state who has been burdened by excessive tax and regulatory policies. She has tapped into the deep-seated mistrust that voters have toward big government. As in so many other states, the citizens are angered at the slow and steady loss of individual freedoms due to the massive overreach of government," concluded Perkins.

As such, we can now add O'Donnell to our list of conservative leaders - along with like Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Bob McDonnell, Newt Gingrich, and Michele Bachmann - who are willing to share a stage with an anti-gay, anti-Muslim bigot like Byran Fischer and have no qualms about attending an event being co-sponsored by the American Family Association, the group that has given Fischer a national platform:

I've never called gay people terrorists although I've said that what they have done is like domestic terrorism. You've got these Mujaheddin on the battlefield setting out these syringes with the HIV virus in it as a way to carry out terrorism.

This is exactly what happens when two males have sex with one another. If one of them is HIV Positive, then it's just like injecting his partner with a needle with HIV.

That's domestic terrorism. I don't know what else you'd call it.

• FRC has posted the text of Tony Perkins' speech last week at the Faith and Freedom Conference.
• Speaking of FRC, they don't approve of Quran-burning even though they "do agree that Islam is evil."
• Is anyone surprised that Texas Gov. Rick Perry thinks creationism ought to be taught in public schools?
• CBN's David Brody is now a contributor to Right Network.
• Prop 8 supporters are now trying to get California's Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado to appeal the Prop 8 ruling.
• Finally, did you know that Christine O'Donnell used to be a spokeswoman for a Concerned Women for America? I didn't, but I can't say that I am surprised.