Last week, the Family Research Council’s Jerry Boykin was disinvited from a prayer breakfast that was to be held at Fort Riley in Kansas, following a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation highlighting his long history of extremism and bigotry.
As usual, Boykin has been playing the victim and took his latest tale of persecution to Glenn Beck’s radio program this morning, where he insisted that not only were his First Amendment rights violated by revoking his speaking invitation, but so were the First Amendment rights of those who wanted to hear him speak at the prayer breakfast.
Seemingly unaware that the First Amendment does not guarantee that people can say anything they want without ever facing consequences, nor mean than Christians are entitled to hear their preferred speaker address any event they attend, Boykin predictably blamed the whole thing on President Obama.
“They’re robbing the soldiers at Fort Riley of their First Amendment rights,” he stated. “They’re robbing these soldiers of their First Amendment rights and this is the condition of Obama’s military. This is what you should expect. This is what your sons and daughters are living with every day in a military that is now suppressing their First Amendment rights.”
“It’s part of the environment that Obama has created here in America,” Boykin continued. “[When] my talk gets canceled there, what you’ve done is you’ve robbed all of those people who wanted to come to that prayer breakfast and hear what I had to say, you robbed them of their First Amendment rights and this is what we’re seeing all over our military today and it’s a result of the environment that Obama has created.”
Boykin declared that the decision to remove him from this prayer breakfast because of a complaint from the MRFF raises the question of “how do you destroy ISIS when you can’t stand up to something like this?”
