Earlier today, we noted that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s staff is not very eager to discuss the fact that he is partnering with the American Family Association for his upcoming “The Response” prayer rally, which is not very surprising considering that the AFA is an anti-gay hate group notorious for the unrelenting stream of bigotry that it produces.
Naturally, Bryan Fischer, the primary source of that bigotry, is angry that people are now trying to “torpedo” Jindal’s prayer rally by highlighting the fact that the governor is partnering with the AFA and a bunch of other anti-gay activists, announcing on his radio program today that he will refuse to comment on his well-documented history of making outrageous statements until after the prayer event.
“If the media contacts us and it’s in connection with this prayer event,” Fischer said, “and we discover that the only reason they’re talking to us is that it’s in connection with this thing called ‘The Response,’ I think my response is going to be ‘I’ll be happy to talk to you this on January 26,'” which is the Monday after Jindal’s prayer event.
“We don’t want anything to distract from this event,” he continued. “Our nation is in crisis. The need of the hour is prayer … This event is about prayer and calling the nation to prayer [but the media’s] only interest is in trying to stir up trouble and create some kind of outrage against this event by trying to make AFA look bad”:
Of course, the only thing making the AFA “look bad” is Fischer and the AFA.
Fischer’s reaction to this criticism of Jindal’s rally is actually something of an improvement considering that when Gov. Rick Perry was getting hammered for partnering with the AFA for his “The Response” prayer rally back in 2011, Fischer responded by complaining that he was the victim of a hate crime.
