Right Wing

• Rush Limbaugh really ought to do some basic research before accusing President Obama of targeting Christians.

 

• And WND, of course, gives Limbaugh a run for his money.

 

• Mike Huckabee sure does like joking about voter suppression.

 

• Harry Jackson continues his shameless shilling for energy interests.

 

• Bryan Fischer credits Rick Perry for "not throwing Robert Jeffress under the bus" and predicts that he will be the GOP nominee.

 

• Finally, imagine there's no pizza.

• The Los Angeles Times profiles the International House of Prayer.

 

• Bryan Fischer says "our next president must understand that the more devout a Muslim becomes ... the more of a threat he becomes to the national security of the United States."

 

• FRC defends the Protect Life Act, saying it simply "ensures that Americans who want health care insurance with abortion coverage or supplemental abortion coverage can purchase it, but not with federal dollars."

 

• Richard Land is demanding the Pentagon reverse the policy of allowing chaplains to officiate at gay weddings, saying it "degrades both the tradition of high moral conduct in the military and the vital and exclusive role of traditional marriage in society and within our military."

 

• Finally, the quote of the day from Gary Bauer: "The private company that owns Zuccotti Park backed down from its demand that the Wall Street protestors clear out so the park could be cleaned. And how did the protestors respond? Just as Iran or the jihadists in the Palestinian territories do — at the first sign of weakness they attack!"

• Bill Dononhue says that if Rick Perry doesn’t denounce Robert Jeffress by the end of the week “his campaign will be in serious trouble.”

• Meanwhile, Jeffress falsely claims “that there has never been a church in American history that has ever lost its tax-exempt status,” while the not self-aware pastor attacks Barry Lynn for seeking “publicity.”

• WorldNetDaily’s Jane Chastain can only dream that President Obama will tell the Occupy Wall Street protest, “You have disgraced yourself by your public displays of indecency.”

• Republican and Religious Right leaders come together to heap praise on Generation Joshua, the ultraconservative home schoolers group.

• The New York Times looks into Michele Bachmann’s education in biblical law at Oral Roberts University.

Washington Times columnist Marybeth Hicks appeared on Eagle Forum Live on Tuesday to promote her new book Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid: Confronting the Left's Assault on Our Families, Faith, and Freedom, which is about how progressives are using media and schools to literally “brainwash our kids.” Speaking with host Bill Borst, Hicks criticized the media and the show “Glee” for supposedly negatively portraying Christians.

But Hicks reserved her harshest attacks for “Family Guy” and its creator Seth MacFarlane. Hicks said that MacFarlane, a People For the American Way board member, put God and Jesus “in blasphemous humor situations” and said that she thinks MacFarlane “does believe in God but he hates him”:

Borst: Do you think part of this problem is because they’ve chased God out of our curriculum? They’ve chased him out of our society and in the naked marketplace now?

Hicks: That’s a big chapter in the book, ‘The Left’s Assault Against God,’ and the fight to keep our kids from understanding that first of all the purpose of this nation in large measure is for religious freedom, not to be free of religion, and so that’s a message that they’re trying to hammer home to kids. And here’s how it’s working and this is kind of my point is that all the points of entry into the hearts and minds of our children are really working so strong to send that message. So for example, kids who watch shows on TV like Glee for example, the show Glee that popular show about, you know, the glee club in the school and what not, and on that show there’s a Christian character but she’s often the judgmental, mean one who cuts people off emotionally. Then there’s this show Family Guy, big popular cartoon show, supposed to be an adult cartoon but millions and millions of kids watch the show, and on that show God and Jesus are recurring characters that are put in blasphemous humor situations, God is put in sexual situations. And the creator of that show Seth MacFarlane is not just an atheist he’s an anti-theist and he has said so very openly in media interviews and such. I think he does believe in God but he hates him.

• Bryan Fischer insists that states have the right to have religious tests for public office.   The Supreme Court disagrees.

 

• I guess American history is not Rick Perry's strong suit.

 

• Harry Jackson shameless shilling for energy interests now extends to defending fracking.

 

• Public schools are indoctrinating your children. You have been warned.

 

• On a semi-related note, Randy Thomasson says there are two kinds of schools: "God's schools and devil's schools." Guess which one the public schools are?

 

• Gary Cass says Mitt Romney is "free to believe Mormonism’s weird, racist doctrines, or practice their secret cultic rituals and even wear their holy underwear, but Romney's Mormon beliefs aren’t Christian."

• PFAW: Gingrich’s Radical Plan to Weaken the Judiciary.

 

• Rob Boston @ AU: Congressional Leaders, Presidential Candidates Court Religious Right, As Theocratic Movement Gears Up For 2012.

 

• Sarah Posner @ Religion Dispatches: Robert Jeffress Has a Lot of Nerve.

 

• Think Progress: Prominent Perry Endorser Robert Jeffress Calls AIDS A ‘Gay Disease’, Claims 70 Percent Of Gays Have AIDS.

 

• Warren Throckmorton: Former Love in Action Director: I’ve never met a man who experienced a change from homosexual to heterosexual.

 

• Ashley Lopez @ Florida Independent: Obama ‘witch doctor’ emailer to host fundraiser for Hasner tonight.

 

• Truth Wins Out: Southern Poverty Law Center and Truth Wins Out Launch Campaign Targeting Destructive Conversion Therapy.

On AFA Today with Buster Wilson this morning, Bryan Fischer said he was stunned that Mitt Romney rebuked him, albeit not by name, for having crossed a line in civil debate and using “poisonous language.” As Kyle points out, Fischer has been playing the victim and defended himself during the same interview, saying, “Jesus used far more incendiary and inflammatory language than I have ever used.”

Fischer told Wilson that he was on Romney’s “hit list” since the 2008 campaign and “didn’t anticipate that he would go after me” at the Religious Right gathering. He also expressed bewilderment that Romney would characterize his language as “poisonous,” saying he has “no idea” what Romney was talking about. Fischer and Wilson went on to name People For the American Way’s Right Wing Watch for pressuring Romney to call out Fischer and his unremitting bigotry:

Fischer has a point, as RWW has documented and exposed Fischer’s ultraconservative, intolerant, and discriminatory bombast for years, or as Fischer puts it, waged a “jihad” and “holy war” against him. We have repeatedly asked Republican presidential candidates, congressmen and senators who appear on his radio show and the presidential candidates, Romney in particular, who were sharing a stage with him at the Values Voter Summit to denounce him.

Since Fischer seems to have “no idea” what in his rhetoric could have forced Romney to condemn him, we put together this video to remind Fischer that the word “poisonous” may actually be an understatement:

• Michael Keegan @ HuffPo: Dear Mitt Romney: Prove Us Wrong.

• Good As You: As Predicted: NOM Spins Request For Clerks To Do Their Jobs As If Its 'Defamation.'

• Igor Volsky @ Think Progress: Anti-Gay Groups: California Students Will Have To Learn About Chaz Bono Instead Of George Washington.

• Bruce Wilson @ Talk 2 Action: New Apostolic Reformation Reconciliation Expert Promotes Book Demonizing MLK.

• Beau Underwood @ BoldFaithType: Mitch Daniels and the Limits of Freedom.

• Southern Poverty Law Center: Whose Values Are Being Promoted at the Values Voter Summit?
• Alex Seitz-Wald @ Think Progress Security: Spencer And Geller Disavow Anti-Muslim Activist’s Call For Violence, Say He Was Never A Board Member.
• Dan @ TFN Insider: More Extremist Gay-Baiting in Houston.
• Andy Birkey @ Minnesota Independent: Bachmann would reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
• Rachel Tabachnick @ Talk To Action: C. Peter Wagner's Denials About Dominionism and Demonization of Other Religions.
• Sam Stein @ Huffington Post: Herman Cain's 2004 Campaign: 'Godless' Gays And Planned Parenthood Eugenics.
• Warren Throckmorton: Wretched Radio host stays with American Family Radio.