For years, Bryan Fischer has made his case that discrimination against gay people is entirely justified and necessary, so it is no surprise that he is a vocal supporter of the new Indiana law that grants business owners the right to discriminate against gays, among others, under the guise of protecting the free exercise of religion.
So passionate is Fischer’s defense of the new law that he went so far as to declare on his radio program today that the law does actually not sanction discrimination against gays but merely protects Christians from discrimination.
“This law is not something that provides for discrimination against gays,” he said. “It is something that prevents discrimination against Christians … This thing is an anti-discrimination bill because it prohibits governmental discrimination against Christians in the state of Indiana.”
Fischer went on to declare that gay rights activists are seeking to utterly destroy religious freedom in America, saying that outrage over the law is entirely about “homosexual supremacy.”
“Homosexual activists want special rights for homosexuals to trump every other single right that any American possess anywhere, at any time, in any place,” he said.
So a law passed in order to give religious business owners a special legal right to discriminate against gay customers is, in Fischer’s warped worldview, really an anti-discrimination bill need to protect Christian business owners from having to give gay customers “special rights” by treating them equally:
