There are few Religious Right activists who can match American Family Radio’s Bryan Fischer when it comes to relentless hatred and hostility toward the LGBT community, so it stands to reason that if he starts heaping praise upon something, there is a very good chance that that thing is awful.
Naturally, Fischer kicked off his radio broadcast today by showering praise upon a piece of legislation signed into law today by Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant that gives businesses, organizations and government officials the right to openly discriminate against gay people in the name of “religious liberty.”
In Fischer’s warped view, the new law actually prohibits discrimination by protecting the rights of Christians to discriminate against others … because not being allowed to discriminate is itself a form of discrimination.
Hailing the new law as “outstanding” and “the best in the nation,” Fischer rejoiced that Christians in his home states of Mississippi are now protected from “invidious discrimination” by “heterophobic bigots.”
“Martin Luther King Jr. was all about protecting rights of conscience,” Fischer laughably proclaimed. “That’s what drove him; the right of conscience and protecting the right of conscience. Martin Luther King Jr. would be ecstatic with this bill. He would love this bill.”
Apparently Fischer thinks that King was organizing and protesting not to end racial discrimination but rather in favor of the right of whites to openly discriminate against blacks in the name of “conscience.”
