There are few “mainstream” Religious Right organization active today that can match the American Family Association’s output of unrelenting bigotry, so it is remarkable to see sitting members of Congress appear on the organization’s radio programs and proclaim their appreciation for what the AFA is doing, as Rep. Steve Palazzo did today.
Palazzo has not been shy about voicing his support for the AFA and was on today to discuss the AFA’s on-going crusade against the military over being classified as a hate group in an Army training session and Palzzo promised AFA president Tim Wildmon that he and his other Republican colleagues from Mississippi who are in Congress will get to the bottom of it because, as he said, America has never needed a group like the AFA “out there espousing Christian principles and biblical teachings” more than it does today.
Palazzo blamed the briefing on the culture that President Obama has created by filling the ranks of the government with people “who really don’t share the same values that real America has” and who are trying to “break down the fabric of our society [by working to] corrupt the military from the inside out”:
