Fischer’s Latest Conspiracy Theory: The FCC Will Shut Us Down

On today’s radio broadcast, Bryan Fischer unveiled a new conspiracy theory alleging that the FCC would soon start rescinding the broadcasting licenses held by Religious Right broadcasters on the grounds that they were promoting “hate speech” by publicly opposing “the normalization of homosexual behavior.”

Citing claims that the FCC will start placing researchers in newrooms all over the nation, Fischer warned that anti-gay activists who use their radio broadcasts to say that homosexuality ought to be discouraged and made illegal because “it’s immoral, it’s unhealthy, it’s unnatural” will be accused of spreading hate speech for merely telling the truth.

When that happens, the government will side with gay activists, Fischer warned, and classify their views as hate speech, declaring that the public airways cannot be used to promote hate crimes, which will then justify a move by the FCC to “yank the license of any radio station that dares to criticize the normalization of homosexual behavior”: