We seems to have entered into a self-perpetuating loop here at Right Wing Watch regarding our coverage of Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association and his upcoming appearance alongside the likes of Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Bob McDonnell, Newt Gingrich, and Michele Bachmann at the Values Voter Summit.
Yesterday PFAW released a statement calling out all of these leaders for agreeing to appear with Fischer at the event, which Fischer then discussed on his radio show, and which we, in turn, covered here.
Today, we are asking people to sign a petition calling on participants at the Values Voter Summit to denounce Fischer’s extremism, which Fischer discussed on his program today and which we are now covering here.
Today, Fischer explicitly mentioned Right Wing Watch by name and thanked us for helping him to get his message out, saying that he stands by his previous statements one hundred percent:
Right Wing Watch paid careful attention to this program yesterday and carved up a lot of my comments into little mini-bits that are on their website. If you want to go to Right Wing Watch, you can view clips, the excerpts from my program yesterday. They’ve got complete transcripts of everything I’ve said and, as far as I’m concerned, it’s terrific. They’re doing me a favor because they gave me a platform to explain my position on homosexuality and to explain my position specifically on Muslims in the military, I’m happy with everything I said, I stand behind everything I said yesterday as well as what I have said before. And I thank the folks at Right Wing Watch for helping to get the word out.
Now, the reason that we post Fischer’s words here is because we happen to feel that nobody can better make the case that Bryan Fischer is an anti-gay and anti-Muslim bigot better than he can.
Just posting his statements is all we need to prove our point, like when he disputes our claim that he likened gays to domestic terrorists … and then proceeds to explicitly liken gays to domestic terrorists:
I’ve never called gay people terrorists although I’ve said that what they have done is like domestic terrorism. You’ve got these Mujaheddin on the battlefield setting out these syringes with the HIV virus in it as a way to carry out terrorism.
This is exactly what happens when two males have sex with one another. If one of them is HIV Positive, then it’s just like injecting his partner with a needle with HIV.
That’s domestic terrorism. I don’t know what else you’d call it.
Every time Fischer tries to defend himself, he just ends up proving our point.
And so we are going to keep asking why conservative leaders like Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Bob McDonnell, Newt Gingrich, and Michele Bachmann are so willing to share a stage with him and attend an event being co-sponsored by the American Family Association, the group that has given Fischer a national platform?
