Tim Wildmon http://www.pfaw.org/
Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:00:39 -0500Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:19:49 -0500Beware Lesbian Abortion Cookies! The Worst Conservative Attacks On the Girl Scoutshttp://www.pfaw.org/content/beware-lesbian-abortion-cookies-rights-history-boycotting-girl-scout-cookies
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<p><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">While Girl Scouts across the country </span><a href="The%20truth%20is%20that%20the%20leftists%20who%20will%20say%20or%20do%20anything%20to%20create%20their%20perfect%20socialist%20world%20are%20really%20trying%20to%20destroy%20the%20best%20the%20world%20has%20to%20offer%20–%20our%20great%20America%20nation." style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> spent this past weekend </a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> selling and distributing Girl Scout cookies, many right-wing activists will not be joining the rest of us in enjoying Thin Mints and Samoas. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">For the past several years, conservative groups have urged their members not to touch the cookies, warning that doing so will support communism, abortion and homosexual indoctrination. The Girl Scouts&rsquo; right-wing detractors commonly cite&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/planned-parenthood-did-not-teach-girl-scouts-how-lead-happy-sex-lives-while-living-hiv" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">the</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.girlscouts.org/program/gs_cookies/faq.asp#revenue_otherorgs" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">discredited</a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> </span><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/girl-scouts-ensnared-rights-hatred-planned-parenthood" style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">myth</a><span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;"> that the group is funding Planned Parenthood, and the even stranger that it is turning children into lesbian, socialist activists.</span></p>
<p>Here are the three wildest claims that right-wing activists make about the girls&rsquo; empowerment organization:</p>
<p><strong>1)</strong> <strong> </strong> <strong>Girl Scouts Push &lsquo;Lesbianism&rsquo; On Children! </strong></p>
<p>The Girl Scouts&rsquo; strong stance against discrimination has put the organization in the far right&rsquo;s crosshairs, with anti-LGBT activists claiming that the Girl Scouts&rsquo; acceptance of lesbian and bisexual members really means that they are somehow pushing &ldquo;lesbianism&rdquo; on children.</p>
<p>Back in 2013, Mission America&rsquo;s Linda Harvey&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harvey-denounces-girl-scouts-supporting-homosexual-lifestyles-and-suspicion-toward-males">accused</a> the Scouts of teaching &ldquo;homosexual lifestyles&rdquo; to girls, along with &ldquo;an attitude of suspicion toward males in general.&rdquo; One right-wing columnist, Jane Chastain of WorldNetDaily, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wnd-girl-scouts-promote-prostitution-0">alleged</a> last year that the Scouts not only promote legal &ldquo;prostitution,&rdquo; but send children home from camp telling &ldquo;stories of lesbianism.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Perhaps no one captures this particular paranoia better than Religious Right radio host Kevin Swanson, who once <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kevin-swanson-begs-you-not-buy-communist-lesbian-girl-scout-cookies">literally begged</a> his listeners to not purchase Girl Scout cookies.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to support lesbianism, I don&rsquo;t want to support Planned Parenthood and I don&rsquo;t want to support abortion, and if that be the case I&rsquo;m not buying Girl Scout cookies,&rdquo; Swanson said on his &ldquo;Generations Radio&rdquo; program in 2013. &ldquo;Please, I beg of you, do not buy Girl Scout cookies. Please, I beg of you, stop buying Girl Scout cookies. And if you do, take a big black magic marker and cross out all of the references to Girl Scouts of America on all of the signs and all of the boxes because we do not want to promote that organization.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Swanson <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kevin-swanson-begs-you-not-buy-communist-lesbian-girl-scout-cookies">added</a> that Girl Scouts will eventually become voters who will put &ldquo;a communist in the White House in the year 2020.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>2) Girl Scouts Promote Abortion And &lsquo;Promoscuity&rsquo;!</strong></p>
<p>Conservatives were <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/01/wendy-davis-abortion-girl-scout-cookies">incensed</a> when Girl Scouts of the USA tweeted out a Huffington Post article on notable women of 2013, asking Twitter followers who they thought was the &lsquo;woman of the year.&rsquo; The article mentioned people like Malala Yousafzai and Beyonc&eacute;, but also included a lengthy video chat during which Texas lawmaker Wendy Davis and her famous filibuster against an anti-abortion bill were mentioned. While the Scouts didn&rsquo;t endorse anyone in the post, conservatives seized on the tweet to resurrect the myth that Girl Scout cookie sales fund Planned Parenthood.</p>
<p>One Family Research Council official, Cathy Ruse, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-research-council-radical-girl-scouts">said</a> in 2012 that the &ldquo;radicals&rdquo; leading the Girl Scouts seek to &ldquo;promote abortion&rdquo; and &ldquo;push for same-sex marriage,&rdquo; alleging that Scout leaders <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc-girl-scouts-encourage-promiscuity-engage-child-abuse">believe</a> that &ldquo;abortion and sex-ed and promiscuity for very young girls is a good thing.&rdquo;</p>
<p>FRC president Tony Perkins <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-research-council-radical-girl-scouts">warned</a> on the same 2012 radio program that the people behind the Scouts&rsquo; &ldquo;liberal indoctrination&rdquo; efforts are &ldquo;not having kids so they want to make sure they can get our kids.&rdquo; He said that by encouraging &ldquo;promiscuity,&rdquo; future Scouts will need to go to Planned Parenthood clinics: &ldquo;[I]t makes sense for Planned Parenthood to want to be teamed up with the Girl Scouts because that&rsquo;s a client base for them if they can get this information into their hands to encourage promiscuity and behavior that would lead them into Planned Parenthood clinics.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The even group went so far as to target the Girl Scouts in a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-research-council-prays-against-girl-scout-cookies">prayer alert</a>.</p>
<p>Fox News pundit Todd Starnes has also called on his fans to boycott the cookie drives, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-boycott-crusader-todd-starnes-endorses-girl-scout-cookies-boycott">saying</a> last year that cookie-buyers should seek out more &ldquo;wholesome alternatives&rdquo; since &ldquo;Girl Scout money was helping to fund Planned Parenthood.&rdquo; American Family Association president Tim Wildmon also <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/right-boycotting-girl-scout-cookies-over-yoga-climate-change-lesbian-role-models"> called for a cookie boycott </a> last year, saying that &ldquo;buying Girl Scout cookies serves only to further facilitate a very liberal pro-abortion agenda.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center was boycotting Girl Scout cookies as early as 2012, boasting that his entire office had sworn off the cookies since they were &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mrc-gainor-complete-utter-scumbag-jon-stewart-leading-war-christmas">destroying young women in America</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>3) Girl Scouts Commit &lsquo;Child Abuse&rsquo; By Accepting Transgender Girls!</strong></p>
<p>The far-right <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/religious-right-calls-girl-scout-cookie-boycott">lit into the Girl Scouts</a> in 2012 after one troop in Colorado decided to accept a 7-year-old transgender girl, citing its chapter&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.glaad.org/blog/girl-scouts-colorado-released-statement-welcoming-transgender-youth">policy</a> that &ldquo;if a child identifies as a girl and the child&rsquo;s family presents her as a girl, Girl Scouts of Colorado welcomes her as a Girl Scout.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Perkins <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/family-research-council-launches-boycott-girl-scout-cookies">urged</a> FRC members to boycott the Scouts since they &ldquo;decided to admit boys who dress as girls&rdquo; and Ruse <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/frc-girl-scouts-encourage-promiscuity-engage-child-abuse">said</a> that the organization&rsquo;s inclusive policy amounted to child abuse: &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got a cross-dresser in the front office, you&rsquo;ve got little boys admitted as little girls and those poor little girls in those troops have to pretend this is a girl? That&rsquo;s child abuse in some people&rsquo;s estimation.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAnti-GayC4Cathy Ruse Dan GainorKevin SwansonLinda Harvey Tim Wildmon Todd StarnesTony Perkins Fighting the Right51286Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:00:39 -0500Tim Wildmon Frank Gaffney: 'How Could This President Love America' When He Was 'Marinated' In A 'Deep Hatred' For Ithttp://www.pfaw.org/content/frank-gaffney-how-could-president-love-america-when-he-was-marinated-deep-hatred-it
<p>The Center for Security Policy&rsquo;s Frank Gaffney <a href="https://vimeo.com/120491240">stopped by</a> the American Family Radio at the National Religious Broadcasters convention in Nashville this week to discuss Rudy Giuliani&rsquo;s recent comment that President Obama doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;love America.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gaffney naturally agreed with Giuliani, contending that while Obama might not have a &ldquo;deep hatred&rdquo; for America, it is literally impossible for him to love the country.</p>
<p>&ldquo;How could this president love America?&rdquo; Gaffney asked AFA president Tim Wildmon. &ldquo;How could he, given that he grew up in his formative years in an Indonesian madrassa, an Islamist school, he came to this country and sat at the knee of an avowed communist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, he spent formative years in Chicago hanging with revolutionaries like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, he went on to church with Jeremiah Wright?&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;And what all of those people have in common is a deep hatred for our country. So maybe he doesn&rsquo;t have a deep hatred for it, but it&rsquo;s hard to see how we could have possibly having incubated in that, marinated in it, come out loving this country. Which brings us to your question. If he doesn&rsquo;t, we&rsquo;re in jeopardy, because you need someone in a dangerous world like this who loves this country, who believes it&rsquo;s exceptional and is willing to stand up for it.&rdquo;</p>
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Miranda BlueAmerican Family Association C4Frank Gaffney Rudy Giuliani Tim Wildmon American Family RadioCenter for Security Policy Fighting the Right51051Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:24:29 -0500Tim Wildmon AFA's Wildmon: Obama Might Be A Secret Muslim Since He Grew Up 'In Indonesia Or Somewhere'http://www.pfaw.org/content/afas-wildmon-obama-might-be-secret-muslim-he-grew-indonesia-or-somewhere
<p>American Family Association President Tim Wildmon said on his radio program today that while he doesn&rsquo;t &ldquo;know&rdquo; whether President Obama is secretly Muslim, the president &ldquo;does sympathize with Muslims and the Islamic religion,&rdquo; perhaps &ldquo;because he grew up in it over there in Indonesia or somewhere.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>After <a href="https://vimeo.com/118607556">interviewing Newt Gingrich</a> about his <a href="“the%20United%20States%20is%20losing%20the%20war%20with%20radical%20Islamists.”">recent claim</a> that &ldquo;the United States is losing the war with radical Islamists,&rdquo; Wildmon pointed to a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/26/obama-muslim_n_1706522.html">poll</a> showing that 17 percent of voters, and 34 percent of conservative Republican voters, falsely believe that the President is a Muslim.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if he is or not, I don&rsquo;t think he gets on his prayer rug five times a day but surely it&rsquo;s obvious that he does sympathize with Muslims and the Islamic religion,&rdquo; Wildmon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq9Yyc8zfow&feature=youtu.be">said</a>. &ldquo;Maybe that&rsquo;s because he grew up in it over there in Indonesia or somewhere&rdquo;</p>
<p>If Wildmon wonders why some people wrongly think that Obama is a Muslim, he can look no further than his own talk radio network.</p>
<p>American Family Radio host Bryan Fischer has time after time suggested to his listeners that&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/bryan-fischer-says-almost-everybody-washington-thinks-obama-secret-muslim">Obama</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-you-cant-support-gay-rights-and-call-yourself-follower-christ">is</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-obama-has-muslim-sympathies-and-his-enemies-are-evangelical-christians">a</a> &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-obama-may-fact-be-closeted-muslim">closeted</a>&rdquo; <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-president-obama-secretly-muslim-who-lying-about-being-christian">Muslim</a>, while Sandy Rios, the AFA&rsquo;s governmental affairs director and another AFR host, is so convinced that the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-uses-edited-quotes-claim-obama-secret-muslim">president is a secret Muslim</a> that she thinks he sent out <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-obama-used-islamic-subliminal-messages-state-union"> Muslim subliminal messages during his State of the Union address</a>.</p>
<p>Wildmon has also had a role in spreading the conspiracy theory, claiming late last year that Obama is &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tim-wildmon-obama-love-islam">in love with Islam</a>.&rdquo;</p>
Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association C4Tim Wildmon Fighting the Right49831Tue, 03 Feb 2015 14:30:33 -0500Tim Wildmon Group Organizing RNC Israel Trip Attacks Israel's 'Atheist Jews'http://www.pfaw.org/content/group-organizing-rnc-israel-trip-attacks-israels-atheist-jews
<p>Sandy Rios, the American Family Association&rsquo;s director of governmental affairs, said <a href="https://vimeo.com/118125281">today</a> that criticism of her organization&rsquo;s role in <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-david-lane-anti-gay-christian-nation-extremist-rnc">financing</a> a Republican National Committee <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rnc-teams-anti-gay-extremist-and-hate-group">trip to Israel</a> is unfounded because Israel &ldquo;could not have a better ally&rdquo; than the AFA &hellip; despite the fact that God disapproves of the country&rsquo;s &ldquo;secular government&rdquo; and is not &ldquo;fond of atheist Jews&rdquo; who live there.</p>
<p>&ldquo;In terms of our teachings and our biblical understanding there could not be any more strong support for Israel than you find among people who understand and believe in the Bible and believe that God&rsquo;s hand is on Israel, in spite of what&rsquo;s happening there, in spite of its government,&rdquo; she said. She mocked the notion &ldquo;that God is in favor of a secular government or that God is fond of atheist Jews who occupy the land in Israel.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;It is His land and I believe He will reclaim it in time,&rdquo; Rios said.</p>
<p>In an apparent response to pressure from the RNC, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/afa-cannot-wash-its-hands-bryan-fischers-bigotry-easily">the AFA distanced itself from its main spokesman Bryan Fischer</a> yesterday, stripping him of his title while still allowing him to host a daily talk show on the organization&rsquo;s radio network.</p>
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<p>Rios has a history making such statements about American Jews. She has argued that &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/corsi-and-rios-explain-how-evolution-aclu-and-powerful-jewish-forces-will-destroy-america">powerful Jewish forces</a>&rdquo; use groups like the ACLU to destroy America, claimed &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/gabriel-islam-everywhere-rios-jewish-leftists-eager-islam">Jewish leftists in this country are eager to embrace Islam</a>,&rdquo; lamented that &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country">the Jewish vote in this country is so confused, so many of the Jews in this country are atheist and their hearts are with this President</a>,&rdquo; and warned that &ldquo;Jewish atheists&rdquo; are among &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country">the worst enemies of the country</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>AFA president Tim Wildmon has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sandy-rios-says-secular-jews-have-been-worst-enemies-country">agreed</a> with her assessment: &ldquo;Most of the Jews in this country, unfortunately, are far-left.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association C4Sandy Rios Tim Wildmon Fighting the Right49660Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:00:20 -0500Tim Wildmon Tim Wildmon Insists There Is Nothing In The Bible Calling For Infidels To Be Put To Deathhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/tim-wildmon-insists-there-nothing-bible-calling-infidels-be-put-death
<p>On <a href="http://vimeo.com/117189438">yesterday's broadcast</a> of the "Today's Issues" radio program, American Family Association president Tim Wildmon voiced his displeasure with those "ignorant people" who claim that Islam and Christianity are both "peaceful religions."</p>
<p>As Wildmon sees it, Christianity is very obviously a peaceful religion while Islam very obviously is not and so anyone who attempts to equate the two does so either out of ignorance or intentional deceit because, unlike the Quran, there is nothing in the Bible that calls for non-believers to be put to death.</p>
<p>"The Quran has explicit admonitions or instructions for followers of Allah to do violence and harm against the infidel," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqDILi90KQ">Wildmon fumed</a>. "There's nothing like that in the Bible, that tells the Christian to go out and decapitate the infidel":</p>
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<p>This makes us wonder if Wildmon has ever read the Bible, especially <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+13&version=NIV">Deuteronomy 13</a>:</p>
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<p>6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, &ldquo;Let us go and worship other gods&rdquo; (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.</p>
<p>12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, &ldquo;Let us go and worship other gods&rdquo; (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association IslamTim Wildmon C3Fighting the Right49546Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:48:31 -0500Tim Wildmon Ken Ham Demands Taxpayers Pay For 'One Of The Greatest Evangelist Outreaches Of Our Day'http://www.pfaw.org/content/ken-ham-demands-taxpayers-pay-one-greatest-evangelist-outreaches-our-day
<p>Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis was a guest on American Family Radio today, where he discussed with Tim Wildmon his new project building a Noah&rsquo;s Ark theme park in Kentucky. Ham insisted that the theme park, a complement to Ham's Creation Museum, has come under attack from &ldquo;intolerant&rdquo; liberals who want to deny it taxpayer funding.</p>
<p>Last month, Kentucky&rsquo;s tourism board <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/creationist-group-fights-its-fundamental-rights-18-million-tax-incentives">announced</a> that the Noah&rsquo;s Ark park wouldn&rsquo;t be eligible for an $18 million tourism tax break because Answers In Genesis intends to use the site to proseletize and refuses to promise not to discriminate based on religion in its hiring. The board <a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2014/12/10/ky-grant-ark-park-tax-incentives/20207341/">noted</a> that &ldquo;[s]tate tourism tax incentives cannot be used to fund religious indoctrination or otherwise be used to advance religion," but Ham <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/creationist-group-fights-its-fundamental-rights-18-million-tax-incentives">cried persecution</a>, complaining that Kentucky had violated his &ldquo;fundamental rights&rdquo; by witholding the tax break.</p>
<p>In the American Family Radio interview, Ham continued to portray himself as the victim of &ldquo;intolerant&rdquo; liberals (like Bill Nye) while also inadvertently bolstering the tourism board&rsquo;s case by announcing that the Noah&rsquo;s Ark park will be &ldquo;one of the greatest evangelist outreaches of our day, of our period in history.&rdquo;</p>
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Miranda BlueAmerican Family Association C4CreationismKen HamKentuckyOhioreligious persecution rhetoricSeparation of Church and StateTim Wildmon Answers in Genesis Fighting the RightReligious Liberty49410Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:31:27 -0500Tim Wildmon Right Wing Round-Up - 11/17/14http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-round-111714
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<ul> <li> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-17/the-colorful-history-of-ben-carsons-biggest-booster">David Weigel @ Bloomberg Politics</a>: The Colorful History of Ben Carson's Biggest Booster.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/11/afa-head-tim-wildmon-human-rights.html">Joe Jervis</a>: AFA Head Tim Wildmon: The Human Rights Campaign Has Declared War On Christians.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/16/how-the-religious-right-scams-its-way-onto-the-ny-times-bestseller-list.html">Warren Throckmorton @ The Daily Beast</a>: How the Religious Right Scams Its Way Onto the New York Times Bestseller List.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/17/3593078/anti-birth-control-group-says-it-will-defy-pro-contraception-court-order/">Ian Millhiser @ Think Progress</a>: Anti-Birth Control Group Says It Will Defy Court Order.</li> <p> <li> <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2014/11/17/christian-groups-offer-dueling-and-sometimes-conflicting-naughty-nice-lists-for-the-holiday-season/">Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist</a>: Christian Groups Offer Dueling (and Sometimes Conflicting) &ldquo;Naughty & Nice&rdquo; Lists for the Holiday Season.</li></ul>
Kyle MantylaBen CarsonPriests for Life Round-UpTim Wildmon Vernon Robinson 49042Mon, 17 Nov 2014 17:34:07 -0500Tim Wildmon Tim Wildmon Warns Obama Will Appoint More 'Anti-American' Justices To The Supreme Courthttp://www.pfaw.org/content/tim-wildmon-warns-obama-will-appoint-more-anti-american-justices-supreme-court
<p>Fox News political commentator Todd Starnes appeared on the American Family Association&rsquo;s election night program with Tim Wildmon, Bryan Fischer, and Ed Vitagliano to discuss the results of the midterm elections and the implications of a Republican-controlled Congress.</p>
<p>Starnes urged the newly-empowered GOP to scale back the powers of the Obama administration and minimize the impact of any presidential executive orders. &ldquo;We have to stop this president and hit this administration,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And the only way to do that is to get a Republican majority in there.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Starnes also spoke about future judicial nominees who will now face confirmation votes in a GOP-led Senate. &ldquo;Right now, we have to worry about activist judges that will be appointed to the bench,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;You have the possibility that a Supreme Court justice may have to be nominated; these are some big, big issues.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;God forbid a Supreme Court justice, one of the conservatives or even Kennedy, dies or leaves office while Obama is still in office,&rdquo; Wildmon chimed in. &ldquo;These are more than liberals&hellip;We have anti-American, ACLU-types in four positions on the Supreme Court.&rdquo;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpKyfAPDxOM&feature=youtu.be">Watch:</a></p>
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Ian SilverstoneAmerican Family Association C4Tim Wildmon Todd StarnesFighting the Right48940Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:00:16 -0500Tim Wildmon Tim Wildmon: Obama Is 'In Love With Islam'http://www.pfaw.org/content/tim-wildmon-obama-love-islam
<p>American Family Association President Tim Wildmon <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-horowitz-knows-obama-muslim-because-he-hates-america-so-much">once again suggested</a> that President Obama is a secret Muslim today, telling Religious Right leader Gary Bauer <a href="https://vimeo.com/109149610">during an interview on his American Family Radio Program</a>&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 20.3999996185303px;">that the president is &ldquo;in love with Islam.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p>&ldquo;President Obama, he&rsquo;s like a broken record, and he&rsquo;s like, when we had on this Islamic thing, he&rsquo;s just in love with Islam,&rdquo; Wildmon <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hRvGk0m6bI&feature=youtu.be">said</a>. &ldquo;He just the other day, you had the situation, oh yeah, where the beheading took place of the first American. Foley, wasn&rsquo;t that his name? Foley. So what does President Obama do? He spends the first minute or two apologizing &mdash; he wasn&rsquo;t apologizing, explaining and lecturing to us how this was not Islam, Islam is peace. He talks about Muslims have had traditionally a great role in the fabric and forming of America, phrases like that and you&rsquo;re going, what planet does this guy get his history from?&rdquo;&nbsp;</p>
<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s always the Western secular liberals doing the defending of Islam for the Muslims,&rdquo; Wildmon added.</p>
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Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association C4IslamTim Wildmon Fighting the Right48679Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:35:40 -0500Tim Wildmon AFA: 'Mandatory Gay Brain-Washing' Will Destroy Americahttp://www.pfaw.org/content/afa-mandatory-gay-brain-washing-will-destroy-america
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<p>An action alert from American Family Association President Tim Wildmon today warns of a plague of &ldquo;mandatory gay brain-washing&rdquo; sweeping the nation. Such brainwashing, he reports, is being done by people like a gay public official in Kentucky whose Twitter account is &ldquo;flaming with pro-gay hype&rdquo; &mdash; such as news of his engagement. The only thing to do, Wildmon says, is to watch AFA&rsquo;s new movie about anti-Christian persecution and "pray for America" because &ldquo;I am convinced that the survival of America as the greatest nation in history rests on whether the nation turns away from its slide into secularism and once again seeks the true God.&rdquo;</p>
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<p><strong><em>Two more Christian business owners face fines, mandatory gay brain-washing</em></strong></p>
<p>Tuesday, October 13, 2014</p>
<p>Miranda,</p>
<p><strong>Lexington, KY</strong><br />
Christian-owned Hands on Originals was asked to print the shirts for the Lexington Pride Festival but politely declined because of the owner&rsquo;s sincerely held religious beliefs. Instead, he found a printer willing to do the job and for the same price. (See full story at <a href="http://sv.afasv.net/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0xJmF1aWQ9Jm1haWxpbmdpZD0xNTcyOCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9MTQxMTMmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD00MzAyJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc3OTU1NCZlbWFpbGlkPWFtYW5kYWdyZWVuNDJAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD02ODU0ODI0MjYxMzcmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2001&&&http://www.onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/10/08/kentucky-business-owner-told-gay-pride-t-shirts-trump-his-beliefs"> OneNewsNow </a> )</p>
<p>Lexington Human Rights Commission Executive Director Raymond Sexton told FoxNews&rsquo; <a href="http://sv.afasv.net/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0xJmF1aWQ9Jm1haWxpbmdpZD0xNTcyOCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9MTQxMTMmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD00MzAyJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc3OTU1NCZlbWFpbGlkPWFtYW5kYWdyZWVuNDJAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD02ODU0ODI0MjYxMzcmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2002&&&http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/10/07/commission-says-christian-business-owners-should-leave-religion-at-home/"> Todd Starnes </a> that Christian business owners should leave their faith at home and is recommending that the HRC fine the owner and force him to attend mandatory &ldquo;diversity training&rdquo; conducted by the commission.</p>
<p>Ironically, the commission&rsquo;s vice-chairman is a rabid homosexual activist, whose <a href="http://sv.afasv.net/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0xJmF1aWQ9Jm1haWxpbmdpZD0xNTcyOCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9MTQxMTMmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD00MzAyJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc3OTU1NCZlbWFpbGlkPWFtYW5kYWdyZWVuNDJAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD02ODU0ODI0MjYxMzcmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2008&&&https://twitter.com/craigcammack"> Twitter account </a> is flaming with pro-gay hype, including his own &ldquo;gay&rdquo; engagement announcement.</p>
<p><strong>New York</strong><br />
Liberty Ridge Farms, located in New York, was recently fined $10,000 and ordered to pay two lesbians $1,500 each. That's because the Gifford family, which owns the farm, refused to rent its facilities for a lesbian wedding because of their religious beliefs.</p>
<p>The New York Division of Human Rights found the owners guilty of violating New York's human rights law, in particular public accommodations and sexual orientation. You can read the full story at <a href="http://sv.afasv.net/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0xJmF1aWQ9Jm1haWxpbmdpZD0xNTcyOCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9MTQxMTMmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD00MzAyJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc3OTU1NCZlbWFpbGlkPWFtYW5kYWdyZWVuNDJAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD02ODU0ODI0MjYxMzcmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2009&&&http://onenewsnow.com/legal-courts/2014/10/10/ny-farm-must-wait-until-spring-to-fight-$13000-fine-over-wedding"> OneNewsNow </a> .</p>
<p><strong>TAKE ACTION</strong></p>
<p>These are not made-up stories. They are real&hellip;and becoming more and more frequent.</p>
<p><strong>Homosexual activists are now intentionally seeking out Christian business owners for the sole purpose of attacking and destroying religious liberties.</strong></p>
<p><strong>&hellip;</strong></p>
<p>Concerning <strong>A Time To Speak</strong>, I am praying that you will undertake these <strong><u>five actions</u></strong>:</p>
<p>1) <strong> <a href="http://sv.afasv.net/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0xJmF1aWQ9Jm1haWxpbmdpZD0xNTcyOCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9MTQxMTMmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD00MzAyJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc3OTU1NCZlbWFpbGlkPWFtYW5kYWdyZWVuNDJAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD02ODU0ODI0MjYxMzcmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2011&&&http://atimetospeak.com/"> Watch the film </a> </strong> . Right now, you can watch a free stream at <a href="http://sv.afasv.net/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0xJmF1aWQ9Jm1haWxpbmdpZD0xNTcyOCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9MTQxMTMmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD00MzAyJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc3OTU1NCZlbWFpbGlkPWFtYW5kYWdyZWVuNDJAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD02ODU0ODI0MjYxMzcmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2012&&&http://atimetospeak.com/"> <a href="http://www.ATimeToSpeak.com" title="www.ATimeToSpeak.com">www.ATimeToSpeak.com</a> </a> .</p>
<p>2) <u>Pass it on</u> or show it to as many friends and family as you can. DVDs can be ordered from the website.</p>
<p>3) <u>Visit</u> <a href="http://sv.afasv.net/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0xJmF1aWQ9Jm1haWxpbmdpZD0xNTcyOCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9MTQxMTMmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD00MzAyJnNlcmlhbD0xNjc3OTU1NCZlbWFpbGlkPWFtYW5kYWdyZWVuNDJAZ21haWwuY29tJnVzZXJpZD02ODU0ODI0MjYxMzcmdGFyZ2V0aWQ9JmZsPTAmZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2013&&&http://atimetospeak.com/"> ATimeToSpeak.com </a> for a wealth of information about how you can help preserve America&rsquo;s religious freedoms, including a comprehensive online voter guide on where candidates stand on issues that matter most.</p>
<p>4) <u>Vote your biblical values</u> on Tuesday, November 4. The upcoming midterm elections are critical. Imagine the impact Americans of faith can have on the future of our nation, the character of its leadership, and the health of its families if we all applied biblical principles to every aspect of our lives &ndash; including committing to vote and to vote wisely.</p>
<p>5) <strong><u>Pray for America</u></strong>. If you watch the news you know that America is facing threats from without and within the nation. I am convinced that the survival of America as the greatest nation in history rests on whether the nation turns away from its slide into secularism and once again seeks the true God.</p>
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Miranda BlueAmerican Family Association Anti-GayC4Equality For Allreligious persecution rhetoricTim Wildmon Fighting the Right48650Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:28:54 -0500Tim Wildmon Larry Klayman: Military Should Oust Obama Like In Egypthttp://www.pfaw.org/content/larry-klayman-military-should-oust-obama-egypt
<p>Larry Klayman is <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klayman-envisions-military-coup-remove-obama">once again</a> calling for the military to remove President Obama from office, telling Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association in an interview today that military leaders should &ldquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqhhU4F5y-4&feature=youtu.be">rise up</a>&rdquo; and &ldquo;go to the president and say, &lsquo;Your time&rsquo;s up,&rsquo; just like they did to Mohamed Morsi in Egypt, &lsquo;Take a hike guy, you&rsquo;re destroying the country.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
<p>Klayman, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-klayman-rally-overthrow-obama-draws-slightly-fewer-millions-expected">who organized a White House rally last year that he hoped would lead to Obama&rsquo;s ouster</a>, insisted that the move would not be a coup d&rsquo;&eacute;tat because Obama is &ldquo;not a legitimate president&rdquo; and is &ldquo;having our people killed for no reason.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Klayman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC2D-IhfNhc&feature=youtu.be">added</a> that Obama is an observant Muslim who wears a &ldquo;ring that says my only God is Allah,&rdquo; while Wildmon said he believes the president &ldquo;is a Muslim in his thinking.&rdquo;</p>
<p>His claim that Obama wears an Islamic ring is <a href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/weddingring.asp">completely false</a> and originated with a debunked WorldNetDaily article.</p>
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<p>At another point in the &ldquo;Today&rsquo;s Issues&rdquo; interview, Klayman <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_60NH8MvWac&feature=youtu.be">said</a> Obama &ldquo;protects his Muslim brothers at the expense of Christians and Jews.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;This president is anti-Christian, he&rsquo;s anti-Semitic, he doesn&rsquo;t like white people,&rdquo; Klayman continued. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re taking strong legal action hopefully to get him removed from office as soon as possible before we go under for the count.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The right-wing activist went on to say that Obama is a &ldquo;socialist, a black Muslim in the mold of Louis Farrakhan&rdquo; who wants people to &ldquo;pay back African Americans&rdquo; by &ldquo;deconstructing the country, trying to bring the country down, in effect like revenge.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t take it anymore, we just simply can&rsquo;t take it anymore.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAnti-MuslimC4IslamLarry Klayman Tim Wildmon Fighting the Right48398Mon, 22 Sep 2014 13:40:03 -0500Tim Wildmon David Horowitz Knows Obama Is A Muslim Because He Hates America So Muchhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/david-horowitz-knows-obama-muslim-because-he-hates-america-so-much
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<p>David Horowitz dropped by the American Family Association&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="http://vimeo.com/104023352">Today&rsquo;s Issues</a>&rdquo; today, where he spoke with AFA head Tim Wildmon about how President Obama refuses to condemn the mass killings of Christians or take military action against ISIS. Of course, Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-remarks-on-the-execution-of-journalist-james-foley-by-islamic-state/2014/08/20/f5a63802-2884-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html">has</a> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/09/statement-president-iraq">repeatedly</a> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/07/statement-president">condemned</a> the killing of Christians and has <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/21/world/meast/iraq-crisis/index.html?hpt=hp_t1">ordered 90 airstrikes against ISIS to date</a>.</p>
<p>But in Horowitz&rsquo;s world, Obama is cheering on ISIS because he&rsquo;s a Muslim who hates America.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Obama is an anti-American radical and I&rsquo;m actually sure he&rsquo;s a Muslim, he certainly isn&rsquo;t a Christian,&rdquo; Horowitz said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a pretend Christian in the same way he&rsquo;s a pretend American. It really is disgraceful. He's inviting the terrorists to behead more Americans when he should be attacking them with our military. His whole agenda in office has been to defeat America, he lost the war in Iraq deliberately, he created a vacuum which ISIS has filled.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Saying he&rsquo;s the worst president we&rsquo;ve ever had is not saying enough.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Wildmon said he didn&rsquo;t used to believe the conspiracy theory that Obama is a secret Muslim, but now he does due to what he sees as the president&rsquo;s anti-American actions.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I think he is, I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s really any question,&rdquo; Horowitz said, arguing that Obama is a &ldquo;liar&rdquo; who &ldquo;lies all the time.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Horowitz also said that Obama is letting immigrants illegally cross the border in order to kill Americans through anthrax and beheadings.</p>
<p>&ldquo;When he was re-elected, the first thought that came into my mind is, a lot of people are going to be dead because of this election, and how right I was,&rdquo; he said, warning that the president &ldquo;destroyed our borders&rdquo; in order to let &ldquo;our enemies&rdquo; enter the U.S.</p>
<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;re going to come across our border with their dirty bombs and their anthrax and whatever else, you know, their swords to behead us&hellip;.The ones who are going to do the killing are coming across our open border and this president is not defending us.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association C4David Horowitz ImmigrationTim Wildmon Fighting the Right48027Thu, 21 Aug 2014 13:00:09 -0500Tim Wildmon AFA: Archie Is Destroying America's Youthhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/afa-archie-destroying-americas-youth
<p>Tim Wildmon and Ed Vitagliano of the American Family Association are upset about the direction of Archie Comics, and spoke with Religious Right pundit Larry Tomczak on today&rsquo;s edition of &ldquo;<a href="https://vimeo.com/103142717">Today&rsquo;s Issues</a>&rdquo; about how Archie is corrupting young people with messages promoting &ldquo;the occult and homosexuality.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Tomczak described how in a recent issue Archie dies while taking a bullet for his gay friend, something Wildmon apparently found hilarious as he cracked up while Tomczek detailed the plot.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I know I sound like an old crank but when kids grow up being fed lies, why should we surprised if they believe lies? Why should we be surprised if they say there is nothing wrong with same-sex marriage?&rdquo; Vitagliano <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-hizcvhwmI&feature=youtu.be">said</a>. &ldquo;These kids grew up watching their parents laugh at Will & Grace, which changed people&rsquo;s opinions, and now the kids don&rsquo;t have a problem with it.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-GayC4Ed VitaglianoLarry TomczakTim Wildmon Fighting the Right47910Mon, 11 Aug 2014 14:00:09 -0500Tim Wildmon Rick Santorum Presents Latest 'Religious Persecution' Moviehttp://www.pfaw.org/content/rick-santorum-presents-latest-religious-persecution-movie
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<p>Two current Religious Right fixations&nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pfaw.org/rww-in-focus/persecution-complex-religious-right-s-deceptive-rallying-cry">the &ldquo;persecution&rdquo; of American Christians</a> and the need for conservatives to do more to influence the pop culture &mdash; have come together in movies like <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/persecuted-religious-right-fantasy-thriller-about-death-freedom-america">&ldquo;Persecuted&rdquo;</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-film-activist-judges-are-attacking-america-gay-rights-taxpayer-funded-pornog">&ldquo;We the People&mdash;Under Attack.&rdquo;</a> The latest entry, <a href="http://onegenerationawaymovie.com/">&ldquo;One Generation Away: The Erosion of Religious Liberty,&rdquo;</a> was screened by Rick Santorum at the Heritage Foundation on Monday night.</p>
<p>Santorum said the movie will be released in September. His EchoLight Cinemas is trying to create an alternative to Hollywood distribution channels by building a network of thousands of tech-equipped churches who will sell tickets for "One Generation Away" and other movies. He says the long-term strategy is to bring more people into churches and put the church back at the center of the culture.</p>
<p>"One Generation Away" is described as a documentary, but it&rsquo;s really a preaching-to-the-choir call to arms for conservative Christians and pastors to get more involved in culture war battles while they still have the freedom to do so. Among the film&rsquo;s producers are Donald and Tim Wildmon from the American Family Association, which Santorum said is packaging a shorter version of the movie into more of an activist tool.</p>
<p>The title comes from Ronald Reagan &ndash; specifically from a speech to the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce in 1961, a time in which Reagan was working with conservatives to rally opposition to Medicare &ndash; &ldquo;socialized medicine&rdquo;:</p>
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<p>Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.&nbsp;We didn&rsquo;t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.</p>
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<p>The thrust of "One Generation Away" is that religious freedom in the United States is disappearing fast, and if the church doesn&rsquo;t fight for it now, it will soon be gone forever. Before running the film on Monday, Santorum quoted Cardinal Francis George, who said during the debate about insurance coverage of contraception, &ldquo;I expect to die in my bed. I expect my successor to die in prison. I expect his successor to be a martyr.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s just the kind of <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/what-persecution-looks">hyperbolic &ldquo;religious persecution&rdquo; rhetoric</a> we have come to expect from Religious Right leaders and their allies in the Catholic hierarchy.</p>
<p>At one point toward the end of the movie, it seems as if the filmmakers might be striking a more reasonable tone, with a couple of speakers saying that Christians should stand up for the rights of people of different faiths &mdash;&nbsp;even though the AFA&rsquo;s chief spokesman <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-first-amendment-does-not-apply-mormons">opposes</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-no-first-amendment-rights-muslims">First Amendment</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/following-fischers-logic-first-amendment-doesnt-apply-mormons-either">protections</a>&nbsp;for non-Christians&mdash;&nbsp;and others actually acknowledging that it is problematic for American Christians to be complaining of &ldquo;religious persecution&rdquo; over policy disputes when Christians and others are facing horrific, deadly persecution in many other parts of the world.</p>
<p>But that caution is quickly abandoned as the movie makes a direct comparison of the status of the Christian church in America with the church in Germany as the Nazis came to power. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor who tried to mobilize German Christians to resist Nazi tyranny and was executed by the regime, is held up as the model that American Christians need to be willing to follow.</p>
<p>Eric Metaxas, a Bonhoeffer biographer who became a Religious Right folk hero when <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rights-rules-politicizing-prayer">he questioned President Obama&rsquo;s faith at a National Prayer Breakfast</a> attended by the president, warned that if the church doesn&rsquo;t link arms to fight, all will be lost. &ldquo;The good news,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;is that the American church is slightly more attuned to the rumbling heard in the distance than the German church was in the 30s. The bad news is, only slightly, right?&rdquo;</p>
<p>The movie cuts to Mike Huckabee saying that Bonhoeffer could have saved his life if he had been willing to soften his faith, but that instead he resisted and rebuked the Nazi regime. And then we&rsquo;re back to Metaxas to complete the Nazi analogy:</p>
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<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;The parallel today is simply that. You have a government, a state, which is getting larger and larger and more and more powerful, and is beginning to push against the church. There&rsquo;s a window of opportunity where we can fight. If we don&rsquo;t wake up and fight before then, we won&rsquo;t be able to fight. That&rsquo;s just what happened in Germany. And that&rsquo;s the urgency we have in America now. And people that&rsquo;s incendiary, or I&rsquo;m being hyperbolic. I&rsquo;m sorry, I wish, I wish, I wish I were. I&rsquo;m not.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Filmmakers said at the screening that they had conducted 75 interviews for the movie, and it sure feels like it.&nbsp; It includes names that will be well-known to RWW readers, like Mike Huckabee, Tony Perkins, Harry Jackson, Tim Wildmon, Alveda King, Robert George, Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention, Eric Teetsel of the Manhattan Declaration, and Ryan Anderson and Jennifer Marshall of the Heritage Foundation.</p>
<p>Also appearing are Rep. Doug Collins; Rick Perry backer Robert Jeffress; Matthew Franck of the Witherspoon Institute, which sponsored the infamous and <a href="http://www.dailytexanonline.com/person/mark-regnerus">discredited </a>Regnerus &ldquo;family structures&rdquo; study; Stephen McDowell of the dominionist Providence Foundation; Gregory Thornbury of Kings College; lawyers from the Alliance Defense Fund, the Beckett Fund, the Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund; and a number of pastors.</p>
<p>The film also includes interviews with some opponents of the Religious Right, including Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Princeton&rsquo;s Peter Singer, and Dan Barker of the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Santorum told the audience at Heritage that he wishes he had even more of his opponents included in the film because &ldquo;they scare the hell out of me&rdquo; and would help motivate the right-wing base.</p>
<p>In order to keep the movie from being one brutally long succession of talking heads, the filmmakers resort to a tactic of constantly shifting scenes, a couple of seconds at a time, in a way that feels like they got a volume discount on stock images of Americana: boats on the water, kids playing softball, families walking together. There are also odd random fillers, like close-ups of the pattern on a couch in the room in which a speaker is sitting. The endless, repetitive succession of images actually makes the film feel even longer than it actually is. (<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/07/30/3465278/heritage-santorum-religious-liberty-movie/">Zack Ford at ThinkProgress had a similar reaction to this technique</a>.)</p>
<p>The meat of the film, or the &ldquo;red meat,&rdquo; mixes the personal stories of people being &nbsp;victimized by intolerant secularists and/or gay activists with miniature David Bartonesque lectures on the Christian roots of America&rsquo;s founding; the fact that the phrase &ldquo;separation of church and state&rdquo; never appears in the U.S. Constitution; the notion that the American government is trying to replace &ldquo;freedom of religion&rdquo; with &ldquo;freedom of worship&rdquo; and require any expression of faith to take place behind church walls; and the disgracefulness of making any analogies between the civil rights movement and the LGBT equality movement. The 1947 Supreme Court decision in which Jefferson&rsquo;s &ldquo;separation of church and state&rdquo; phrase was invoked by the Court and &ldquo;changed everything&rdquo; is portrayed as nothing more than a reflection of Justice Hugo Black&rsquo;s hatred of Catholics.</p>
<p>Featured &ldquo;persecution&rdquo; stories include:</p>
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a long advertisement for Hobby Lobby and its owners, the Green family, which recently won its legal battle against the contraception mandate;</li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">a baker and florist who ran afoul of their state&rsquo;s anti-discrimination laws when they refused to provide services for a same-sex couple getting married;</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">cheerleaders at a public high school in Texas who were challenged by the Freedom From Religion Foundation for creating football game banners featuring Christian scriptural quotes; &nbsp;</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">Catholic Charities being &ldquo;forced&rdquo; to give up adoption services rather than place children with same-sex couples;</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">an ACLU challenge to a large cross at the Mt. Soledad war memorial; and</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">the supposed frontal attack on the religious freedom of military chaplains as a result of allowing LGBT members of the armed forces to serve openly. On this issue, Tony Perkins declares, &ldquo;The military is being used as a vanguard of radical social policy. And in order for that policy to permeate and to take root, you&rsquo;ve got to take out the religious opposition.&rdquo;</span></li>
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<p>In spite of the parade of horrors, the movie tries to end on an upbeat note, saying that the early Christian church expanded while it was being suppressed, and that it will only take &ldquo;one spark of revival&rdquo; to change the nation. &nbsp;A familiar theme at Religious Right conferences is that blame for America&rsquo;s decline rests with churches that don&rsquo;t speak up and pastors who don&rsquo;t preach or lead aggressively enough. One Generation Away ends on this point, telling Christian pastors it is their responsibility to wake up and challenge their congregants to live their faith &ldquo;uncompromisingly.&rdquo;</p>
<p>During the Q&A after the screening, Santorum said the fact that Hobby Lobby was a 5-4 decision demonstrated the importance of the 2016 election. &ldquo;Part of me almost wishes we&rsquo;d lost,&rdquo; says Santorum, because that would have made the threat clearer to conservative activists. &ldquo;We are one judge away,&rdquo; he said, adding that &ldquo;if we get a Democratic president, our five, or four-and-a-half, justices are not going to hold out forever.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;I just worry,&rdquo; he said to the young people in the audience, &ldquo;that the longer we delay, and America sleeps, and your generation is indoctrinated the way it is, the harder it will be to come back.&rdquo;</p>
Peter MontgomeryAlliance Defending FreedomAlveda King American Family Association C4Don Wildmon Doug CollinsEchoLightEric MetaxasEric TeetselGregory ThornburyHarry Jackson Heritage FoundationJennifer MarshallKing&#039;s CollegeManhattan DeclarationMatthew FranckMike Huckabee Providence FoundationReligious FreedomReligious Libertyreligious persecution rhetoricRick Perry Rick Santorum Robert George Robert Jeffress Russell MooreRyan AndersonStephen McDowellSupreme CourtTim Wildmon Tony Perkins Witherspoon InstituteBecket Fund Fair and Just CourtsFighting the RightReligious Liberty47777Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:28:23 -0500Tim Wildmon GOP's Base Clamors To Impeach Obamahttp://www.pfaw.org/content/gops-base-clamors-impeach-obama
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<p>Nearly two years into President Obama&rsquo;s second term, a do-nothing Republican Congress is focusing on its next project: the 2014 midterm elections. But that effort might be complicated by increasing pressure from the party&rsquo;s base to turn Congress&rsquo; energy to impeaching President Obama. The impeachment call, which has <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/does-he-simply-hate-christianity-does-he-hate-united-states-or-both"> existed on the right-wing fringe since the start of Obama&rsquo;s presidency</a>, has picked up steam in recent weeks as it has been endorsed by right-wing media figures, activists and elected officials.</p>
<p>This has put Republican congressional leaders in a tricky spot as they attempt to placate their base without alienating moderate voters. When House Majority Whip Steve Scalise appeared on Fox News Sunday this week, he continually <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scalist-did-not-rule-out-impeachment">dodged the question</a>. Ted Cruz similarly batted away a question about impeachment, <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-dont-we-impeach-him?lite">calling it politically unfeasible</a>. Right-wing leaders including <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/impeachment-a-bridge-too-far/">Pat Buchanan</a> and <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tom-delay-wants-take-our-schools-back-because-our-children-are-being-brainwashed-left">Tom DeLay</a> have urged caution in the impeachment campaign, although DeLay said he would personally &ldquo;love to impeach him.&rdquo; Likewise, Karl Rove has warned that when it comes to impeachment, &ldquo;<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/28/the-conservative-war-over-impeachment/200216#levin">the politics of it are all wrong</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Even Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas, who last year distributed to every office on Capitol Hill a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/steve-stockman-wants-every-congressman-read-impeachment-book"> book on why the president should be impeached and removed from office </a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/steve-stockman-asks-religious-right-law-firm-investigate-impeaching-obama"> and hired an attorney to look into impeachment</a>, is now backtracking and <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/what-obama-has-to-gain-by-being-impeached/">warning that impeachment proceedings could benefit Democrats</a> in the midterm elections.</p>
<p>Now, House Speaker John Boehner is claiming that <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-boehner-obama-impeachment-talk-a-democratic-scam/">talk of impeachment is a Democratic &ldquo;scam&rdquo;</a> to win voters&hellip;an odd claim since it&rsquo;s members of his own party who have been beating the drum about impeachment.</p>
<p>But it might be too late for Republicans to backtrack on a steady buildup of rhetoric questioning the president&rsquo;s legitimacy, love of country, and authority to govern, which has led to increasing calls for impeachment from right-wing lawmakers, activists and media personalities... although nobody can quite agree on what the impeachment should be for.</p>
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In a radio interview last week, <strong>Rep. Michele Bachmann</strong> said that she believed the president has "<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-says-american-people-must-call-presidents-impeachment">committed impeachable offenses</a>&rdquo; but that first &ldquo;the American people have to agree with and be behind and call for the president&rsquo;s impeachment.&rdquo;</li>
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This month, <strong>Rep. Lou Barletta</strong> of Pennsylvania said that there are &ldquo;probably&rdquo; the votes in the House to impeach the president for &ldquo;<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/barletta-house-impeach-obama">absolutely ignoring the Constitution</a>, and ignoring the laws, and ignoring the checks and balances.&rdquo;</li>
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In March, <strong>Rep. Dana Rohrabacher</strong> of California hinted at impeachment proceedings <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dana-rohrabacher-floats-impeaching-obama-over-immigration-reform"> in response to illegal immigration</a>.</li>
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Last year, <strong>Rep. Blake Farenthold</strong> of Texas toyed with the idea of impeaching the president over &ldquo;<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/theres-i-word-again?lite=">the whole birth certificate issue</a>.&rdquo;</li>
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Also last year, <strong>Rep. Kerry Bentivolio</strong> of Michigan said that impeaching the president would be &ldquo;<a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/gop-congressman-would-be-dream-come-true-to-submit-obama-imp">a dream come true</a>.&rdquo;</li>
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<strong>Rep. Steve King</strong> has <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/26/Rep-Steve-King-Predicts-House-Will-Start-Impeachment-Proceedings-if-Obama-Grants-More-Amnesty-with-Exec-Actions"> promised impeachment proceedings </a> if President Obama issues an executive order granting work permits to undocumented immigrants.</li>
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<strong>Sarah Palin</strong> has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/28/the-conservative-war-over-impeachment/200216">repeatedly called for impeachment</a> in recent weeks.</li>
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<strong>Glenn Beck</strong> has repeatedly called for the president&rsquo;s impeachment for the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-failure-impeach-over-irs-scandal-means-america-already-operating-under-tyranny">IRS scandal</a>, an <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/understanding-glenn-becks-nonsensical-call-impeachment"> imaginary plot to give weapons to Al Qaeda in Syria </a> and for a supposed cover-up of the <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2013/04/19/glenn-beck-america-should-demand-impeachment-fo/193699"> role of a Saudi national in the Boston Marathon bombings</a>. &ldquo;You need to file the articles of impeachment. He needs to have the stain on his record that they cannot remove,&rdquo; he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-impeach-obama-put-stain-his-record-they-cannot-remove">said</a>.</li>
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The prominent right-wing legal group <strong>Liberty Counsel </strong>launched a campaign in February to call on the House to start the process of impeaching the president before he succeeds in &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-impeach-obama-turning-america-godless-socialist-nation">remaking the United States of America into a godless, socialist nation</a>.&rdquo; The group <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-entirely-serious-about-impeaching-obama">launched a similar campaign in 2011</a>. Although Liberty Counsel officials have cited President Obama&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/mat-staver-calls-obamas-impeachment-over-anti-discrimination-executive-order"> executive order on LGBT nondiscrimination</a>, the<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/liberty-counsel-wants-obama-impeached-over-libya"> Benghazi attack</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/impeach-obama-because-state-officials-are-refusing-defend-anti-gay-marriage-amendments"> marriage equality </a> as possible reasons for impeachment, ultimately the group&rsquo;s chairman Mat Staver said an impeachable offense can be &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barber-staver-impeach-obama-because-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-means-whatever-we-want-it-m">whatever Congress says it is at any given time</a>.&rdquo;</li>
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Fox News legal analyst <strong>Andrew Napolitano</strong> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/29/fox-host-claims-conservatives-arent-talking-abo/200235">has floated the idea of impeachment</a> for at least a year.</li>
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In 2012, <strong>American Family Association President Tim Wildmon</strong> called for the president&rsquo;s impeachment because he &ldquo;intentionally misled the American people&rdquo; about t<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wildmon-obama-should-be-impeached-over-attack-libya">he attacks in Benghazi</a>. This year, he declared that the GOP would have impeached President Obama even if he had been a Republican because <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/wildmon-republicans-would-have-impeached-republican-president-obama"> the &ldquo;Christian element&rdquo; in the party would never tolerate </a> &ldquo;lawlessness and lying.&rdquo;</li>
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<strong>The American Family Association&rsquo;s Bryan Fischer</strong> demanded President Obama&rsquo;s impeachment for his <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fischer-impeach-obama-over-doma-government-should-campaign-against-homosexuality"> handling of the court case challenging the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act</a>.</li>
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<strong>Gun Owners of America director Larry Pratt</strong> has called for Obama&rsquo;s impeachment for his <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/larry-pratt-demands-impeachment-obama-pagan-gun-laws"> backing of &ldquo;pagan&rdquo; gun safety laws</a> and before he takes &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/pratt-impeach-obama-he-takes-total-control">total control</a>.&rdquo;</li>
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<strong>WorldNetDaily managing editor David Kupelian</strong> wants Republicans to impeach Obama and remove him from office if they take control of the Senate: &ldquo;We need to remove this guy or to stop what he&rsquo;s doing as soon as possible. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kupelian-republicans-should-impeach-obama-if-they-take-control-congress"> The next opportunity is in November and we&rsquo;ll see what the Republicans and the Christians and the conservatives can do then</a>.&rdquo; The site&rsquo;s editor in chief, <strong>Joseph Farah</strong>, has also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/28/the-conservative-war-over-impeachment/200216">repeatedly called for impeachment proceedings</a>.</li>
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<strong>Former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo</strong> called for Obama&rsquo;s impeachment earlier this year, claiming that the president has become &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tancredo-gop-will-win-2014-election-demanding-obamas-impeachment">addicted to dictatorial behavior.&rdquo;</a></li>
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<strong>Tea Party Nation</strong> urged its members to sign a petition calling on Congress to &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tea-party-nation-tells-members-it-time-impeach-and-arrest-tyrant-king-obama">impeach and arrest the tyrant king Obama!</a>&rdquo;</li>
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<strong>Alan Keyes</strong>&nbsp; who lost the 2004 Illinois Senate race to Obama, advocated for impeachment over the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alan-keyes-cites-fort-hood-shooting-reason-impeach-obama">Fort Hood shooting</a>, Obama&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/keyes-obama-must-be-impeached-spreading-political-aids-virus">dictatorial intentions</a>,&rdquo; and something to do with &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/keyes-bucket-brigade-will-impeach-and-remove-obama">gay lovers</a>.&rdquo; He has also<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alan-keyes-wants-michele-bachmann-lead-campaign-impeach-obama">called on Michele Bachmann</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alan-keyes-hopes-jesus-christ-will-help-fight-impeach-obama">and Jesus Christ</a> to help in the impeachment endeavor &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/keyes-impeach-obama-its-too-late">before it&rsquo;s too late</a>.&rdquo;</li>
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In 2012, <strong>Americans for Truth About Homosexuality&rsquo;s Peter LaBarbera</strong> called for Obama&rsquo;s impeachment for trying to &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/labarbera-obama-impeach-homosexual-activist">pander to his homosexual activist base</a>.&rdquo;</li>
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Drew CourtneyAlan Keyes American Family Association Andrew NapolitanoBlake FarentholdBryan FischerC4Dana RohrabacherGun Owners of AmericaKerry BentivolioLarry PrattLiberty Counsel Lou Barletta Mat Staver Michele BachmannObama impeachmentPeter LaBarbera Sarah Palin Steve King Tea Party NationTim Wildmon Tom Tancredo Americans for Truth about HomosexualityGlenn BeckFighting the Right47751Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:25:42 -0500Tim Wildmon Tim Wildmon: Putting Michael Sam 'In With All That Beefcake' Is 'Unfair To The Straight Players'http://www.pfaw.org/content/tim-wildmon-putting-michael-sam-all-beefcake-unfair-straight-players
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<p>In a fundraising email today, American Family Association president Tim Wildmon starts out by criticizing Keith Olbermann for <a href="http://www.advocate.com/politics/media/2014/07/23/watch-keith-olbermann-eviscerates-tony-dungy-michael-sam-remarks">naming as his &ldquo;worst person in sports&rdquo; </a>a former NFL coach who said he would not have drafted openly gay player Michael Sam&nbsp;because &ldquo;things will happen&rdquo; and he &ldquo;wouldn&rsquo;t want to deal with all of it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But Wildmon <a href="http://www.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147547906">uses the anecdote to launch into a larger indictment of the progressive movement</a> and its &ldquo;PC Gestapo,&rdquo; which he asserts is &ldquo;out to destroy our country as it has existed&rdquo; by being &ldquo;against patriotism,&rdquo; &ldquo;against religion,&rdquo; &ldquo;against our Constitutional Bill of Rights,&rdquo; and &ldquo;most certainly is for promoting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement and punishing people who dare speak against it.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Which leads Wildmon back to Michael Sam. Having been a sports reporter and been in locker rooms himself, Wildmon can definitively say that &ldquo;[p]utting a man like Sam, who says he is sexually attracted to men, in with all that beefcake seems unfair to the straight players and a distraction to Sam.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>The politically correct or "progressive" crowd found a new target this week. When asked about "out and proud" football player Michael Sam, former NFL coach Tony Dungy said he would not have drafted Sam had he still been coaching. Said Dungy: "I wouldn't have [drafted] him. Not because I don't believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn&rsquo;t want to deal with all of it.&nbsp; It's not going to be totally smooth...things will happen."</p>
<p>For this comment, ESPN commentator Keith Olbermann named Dungy the "Worst Person in the World" on Monday night. Condemnations of Dungy came from all over.</p>
<p>This is where the "progressive" movement is. If you hold a view that is not in agreement with theirs, you are to be demonized by them, the progressives, who, ironically, don't believe in demons. Why do they do this? Because they, the progressives, consider themselves morally superior to those of us who hold traditional values even though, again, ironically, progressives don&rsquo;t believe in moral values unless they define them. They moralize against those who promote morality.</p>
<p>The progressive movement is out to destroy our country as it has existed. It is against patriotism. It is against religion in general and is in particular hostile to evangelical Christianity and traditional Catholicism. It is against borders. It is against capitalism. It is for high taxation and government control and regulation of almost everything. It wants people depending on government so they can be controlled. It believes government debt is good. It is against our Constitutional Bill of Rights, in particular the First and Second Amendments. It is for abortion on demand even through nine months of pregnancy. It wants to downgrade the American military.&nbsp; It rejects the idea that Western Civilization is superior to other civilizations. And it most certainly is for promoting the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender movement and punishing people who dare speak against it.</p>
<p>Basically, what I have just described is the platform of the modern day Democrat Party and the philosophy/agenda of much of the New York/Washington, D.C., liberal media, Hollywood and most university campuses. When Barrack [sic] Obama said he wanted to "fundamentally transform" America, what he was saying to his fellow hardcore progressives was: "I've got the wrecking-ball ready."</p>
<p>Sexually, God made man for woman and woman for man. It's obvious. It's natural. Progressives can't stand this. So they are always trying to equate homosexuality with heterosexuality or elevate homosexuality over heterosexuality. When someone like Dungy makes a comment that can in any way been seen as challenging this narrative then that person must be immediately discredited or publicly shamed no matter the truth of what he is saying.</p>
<p>By the way, having been a sports reporter for a few years I've been in many football locker rooms where the players walk around naked or half-naked, changing clothes and going in and out of the showers. Putting a man like Sam, who says he is sexually attracted to men, in with all that beefcake seems unfair to the straight players and a distraction to Sam.</p>
<p>Would you put a heterosexual man in the locker room/showers with all the female cheerleaders? Would you tell the girl cheerleaders who objected to this man being in the locker room that they needed to end their bigoted and sexist attitude and treat the man with respect?</p>
<p>Tony Dungy will probably survive being the "worst person in the world." But the fact that he is in the crosshairs of the PC Gestapo over this comment is chilling to free speech and free thinking.</p>
<p>It's ironic that the people who now scream the loudest about tolerance have become the least tolerant among us.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Tim Wildmon, President<br />
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Miranda BlueAmerican Family Association Anti-GayC4Equality For AllMichael SamTim Wildmon Fighting the Right47697Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:43:12 -0500Tim Wildmon AFA Dismisses Equal Rights For Gay People By Citing Small Populationhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/afa-dismisses-equal-rights-gay-people-citing-small-population
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<p>The American Family Association simply doesn&rsquo;t understand why more and more Americans support equal rights for the gay community when, <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/15/gay-lesbian-bisexual-cdc-survey/12671717/">according to a recent study</a>, just over two percent of people openly identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual &hellip; because as everybody knows that rights are determined by population size!</p>
<p>AFA head Tim Wildmon, in a <a href="http://www.afa.net/Media/PressRelease.aspx?id=2147547759">statement</a> about the study today, criticized the gay community as &ldquo;an extremely small population&rdquo; that is bent on &ldquo;inundating television shows&rdquo; and &ldquo;bullying&rdquo; Americans until they are &ldquo;given special preferences in the law.&rdquo;</p>
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<strong>American Family Association Says Efforts to Normalize Unhealthy Behavior Is Pushed by Extremely Small Population</strong><br />
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Even though the American public thinks the figure is much higher, less than 3 percent of the U.S. population identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, according to the first large-scale government survey measuring Americans&rsquo; sexual orientation, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<br />
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&ldquo;Today in America, we are changing millennia-old marriage laws, inundating television shows with multiple homosexual characters and pushing the public to embrace as accepted and healthy the behavior of less than 3 percent of the population,&rdquo; said Tim Wildmon, President of the American Family Association. &ldquo;Our culture, through the bullying, pressure and coercion of a lobby motivated by an extremely small population in America, has become focused on advancing the homosexual lifestyle as normal and even ideal.&rdquo;<br />
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&ldquo;There are very significant health risks associated with homosexuality that the public isn&rsquo;t aware of,&rdquo; Wildmon added. &ldquo;We care about the health of all Americans, including people who are inclined to engage in homosexual behavior. People need to be informed that the homosexual lifestyle is not a benign alternative to heterosexual behavior. There are serious health risks, which is why we at AFA oppose homosexual behavior being normalized, as well as homosexual individuals being given special preference in the law.&rdquo;</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-GayC4Tim Wildmon Fighting the Right47624Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:15:33 -0500Tim Wildmon Jeff Allen Warns America Is Pushing 'Sodomite Imperialism' With 'Homosexual Warheads'http://www.pfaw.org/content/jeff-allen-warns-america-pushing-sodomite-imperialism-homosexual-warheads
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<p>BarbWire editor Jeff Allen joined Tim Wildmon on <a href="http://mediaserver3.afa.net/archives/TodaysIssues/TI_062414b.mp3">American Family Radio</a> yesterday to warn that President Obama and his progressive allies seek to destroy America because they are engaged in &ldquo;rebellion against God.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Among the anti-American, anti-Christian demoniacs? Why, none other than us here at Right Wing Watch! Allen accused us &mdash; along with the media, public schools and the gay community &mdash; of trying to bring down the country and replace it with a socialist-communist dystopia.</p>
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<p>And he wasn&rsquo;t done there. Allen took to <a href="http://barbwire.com/2014/06/25/obamas-sodomite-imperialism/">BarbWire</a> today to accuse Secretary of State John of pushing &ldquo;sodomite imperialism&rdquo; by appointing &ldquo;tranny&rdquo; foreign service officers and &ldquo;weaponizing the foreign affairs agencies with a homosexual warhead.&rdquo;</p>
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With the Obama administration&rsquo;s foreign policy in a shambles and the world going to hell in a handbasket (and frankly, we&rsquo;re running out of handbaskets), Secretary of State John Kerry was busy wasting our nation&rsquo;s valuable time making the ridiculous pledge to continue working hard to appoint more LGBT ambassadors as part of America&rsquo;s new sodomite imperialism. Never mind the fact that ISIS is overrunning Iraq, the Syrian civil war is spilling over into Israel, and Russian aggression in the Ukraine destabilizes the region &mdash; America is too preoccupied with intimidating other nations into embracing homosexual perversion to be concerned about such &ldquo;insignificant&rdquo; geo-politcal [sic] issues. Talk about having our national priorities out of whack!<br />
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John Kerry delivered his remarks at the GLIFAA (formerly Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies) Pride Event in the Ben Franklin Room at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC on June 19. During the speech, the secretary rattled off a list of &ldquo;accomplishments&rdquo; that have benefited the homosexual community&rsquo;s aberrant agenda.<br />
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Kerry also indicated that, if confirmed, Ted Osius (nominated by President Obama to serve in Vietnam) would become the sixth openly gay U.S. ambassador currently in service. Then, he praised the work of the GLIFAA President and moderator of the event Robyn McCutcheon, who was at one time posted in Bucharest, Hungary as the first cross-dressing, tranny &ldquo;female&rdquo; Foreign Service officer. In other words, we&rsquo;ve got people who can&rsquo;t even figure out their own gender trying to navigate their way through the intricacies and intrigues of the world&rsquo;s most confusing diplomatic quandaries.<br />
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For those nations that dare to balk at these thuggish U.S. demands and refuse to recognize pretend homosexual &ldquo;marriages&rdquo; (and won&rsquo;t grant visas to their homosexual &ldquo;spouses&rdquo;), the Obama administration is prepared to abusively misuse its power. Kerry threatened to use coercive tactics against those nations that find homosexual practice repugnant. Apparently, we no longer respect the culture, beliefs and traditions of other nations. Just as the vindictive homosexual activists have brazenly run roughshod over the rights of conservative and Christian citizens here at home, Kerry promised more of the same around the world. Like the IRS, we are seeing the weaponizing of the foreign affairs agencies with a homosexual warhead.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-GayC4Jeff AllenTim Wildmon BarbWireFighting the Right47347Wed, 25 Jun 2014 11:50:49 -0500Tim Wildmon Tim Wildmon Is Pretty Sure God Will Destroy America Any Day Now Thanks To Obamahttp://www.pfaw.org/content/tim-wildmon-pretty-sure-god-will-destroy-america-any-day-now-thanks-obama
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<p>In an <a href="http://afajournal.org/archives/2010-present/2014/june/commentaries/imhostar-%E2%80%A6-how-we-move-forward.aspx">essay</a> in this month&rsquo;s AFA Journal, American Family Association President Tim Wildmon writes that his group is working tirelessly to prevent God from destroying the country as retribution for President Obama&rsquo;s support for abortion rights and LGBT equality.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Our president is promoting the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered and queer agenda like there is no tomorrow,&rdquo; Wildmon says, insisting that Obama&rsquo;s support for the &ldquo;immoral, unnatural and unhealthy&rdquo; &ldquo;lifestyle&rdquo; of homosexuality is part of America&rsquo;s wider &ldquo;rebellion against God.&rdquo;</p>
<p>He adds that while &ldquo;God sometimes destroyed nations for their rebellion&rdquo; &mdash; a punishment that &ldquo;will happen to us as well if we continue down this path away from God&rdquo; &mdash; America hasn&rsquo;t just yet gone &ldquo;down the tubes,&rdquo; thanks to the AFA, of course.</p>
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If I may be so blunt, we have a president who is promoting an agenda much of which is in direct violation of God&rsquo;s law. He is by far the most pro-abortion president in history. God hates the innocent shedding of blood, the killing of babies in the womb.<br />
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Our president is promoting the gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgendered and queer agenda like there is no tomorrow. God says homosexuality is immoral, unnatural and unhealthy and should be repented of, not embraced and celebrated as a valid &ldquo;alternative lifestyle.&rdquo;<br />
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And on the issue of religious freedom, the president is trying to use the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to force Christian-owned businesses such as Hobby Lobby to violate their convictions. My goodness, the Obama administration even went after the Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charity serving the elderly poor.<br />
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In addition, much of our popular culture is in open rebellion against God. Though they have little if any understanding of the Scripture, they routinely mock its message.<br />
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Humanly speaking, it&rsquo;s easy to lose hope because the effects on our country by this kind of godlessness are devastating. The Scripture shows us that God sometimes destroyed nations for their rebellion against His moral standards and their lack of repentance. It will happen to us as well if we continue down this path away from God. I confess I get frustrated when I hear some of our fellow Christians saying we should disengage from politics, government and culture, as if we think we can live in isolation from the world around us.</blockquote>
Brian TashmanAmerican Family Association Anti-AbortionAnti-GayC4Tim Wildmon Fighting the Right47302Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:50:11 -0500Tim Wildmon AFA: Obama Gay Rights Speech 'Made A Mockery Of God's Word'http://www.pfaw.org/content/afa-obama-gay-rights-speech-made-mockery-gods-word
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<p>In a<a href="http://action.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147546842"> fundraising email </a>today, American Family Association president Tim Wildmon shares &ldquo;nine statements by Obama yesterday" that "made a mockery of God&rsquo;s word.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Wildmon lists <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/06/17/obama-hails-lgbt-progress-but-says-work-remains/">such God-mocking statements</a> as the president&rsquo;s calling the overturning of DOMA &ldquo;a great day for America&rdquo; and noting the number of states that currently have marriage equality.</p>
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Miranda BlueAmerican Family Association Anti-GayC4Equality For AllMarriage EqualityTim Wildmon Fighting the Right47248Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:22:18 -0500Tim Wildmon Paranoia-Rama: Straights Forced Into The Closet, Las Vegas 'False Flag,' Agenda 21 Destroying Iowahttp://www.pfaw.org/content/paranoia-rama-straights-forced-closet-las-vegas-false-flag-agenda-21-destroying-iowa
<p><em>RWW&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/topics/paranoia-rama">Paranoia-Rama</a> takes a look at five of the week&rsquo;s most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.</em></p>
<p>Religious Right activists claimed this week that they are losing their &ldquo;right&rdquo; to not see gay people, even going so far as to compare their situation to the Holocaust.</p>
<p><strong>5) It Ain&rsquo;t Easy Being Straight</strong></p>
<p>American Family Association president Tim Wildmon thinks straight people have it rough in America. In an email to the AFA&rsquo;s members this week, Wildmon complained that heterosexuals are being <a href="http://action.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147546580">pushed into the closet</a> and forced to watch gay people kiss &ldquo;mouth to mouth&rdquo; on TV.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Straight America is scared to death of offending or potentially offending gay, lesbian and transgender people and their powerful movement. It&rsquo;s really embarrassing to watch,&rdquo; he wrote, objecting especially to &ldquo;Michael Sam&rsquo;s mouth to mouth kiss of his lover on EPSN [sic].&rdquo; Wildmon insisted that while he was grossed out by the kiss, he felt pressured by the media to enjoy it:</p>
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<p>Sam and his boyfriend, Vito Cammisano, decided to go "in your face," both to themselves (literally) and to those watching the draft on television including millions of young boys no doubt. After first kissing without debris, Sam then decided to put some cake in his mouth and go back after Vito for some more affection.<br />
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It was gross. But then I'm an old-school prude who doesn't believe men should be having sex with other men, so that is the reaction you would expect from people like me. I believe that kind of behavior is immoral, unhealthy and unnatural. If people want to live this lifestyle, that is their choice, but this idea of forcing people who disagree with it to applaud or else be shouted down, fined by the government or lose your job has gotten way out of hand.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;Now it is clear the sports world is also bowing the knee to GLBTQ,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;We must get more Christians to wake up and fight back or we will lose our country&rdquo; to public displays of &ldquo;man-to-man mouth kissing.&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>4) Gays Taking Away Freedom By Celebrating Pride Month</strong></p>
<p>On a similar note, Linda Harvey of Mission America said this week that LGBT Pride Month celebrations have violated her freedom. She didn&rsquo;t say which freedoms she lost exactly, but she definitely felt oppressed!</p>
<p>&ldquo;Such conduct is nothing to be proud of,&rdquo; she <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/more-gay-pride-means-less-freedom/">wrote in WorldNetDaily.</a> &ldquo;Their alleged freedom means loss of liberty for you and me.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Harvey, who wants the government to <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/harvey-ban-gay-pride-parades-and-adoption">ban such celebrations</a> from taking place, warns that &ldquo;this movement is causing collateral damage in America. Are we willing to open our eyes and see where this is going? More pride means less freedom for Christians. That means loss of virtue and a farewell to America&rsquo;s soul. Isn&rsquo;t it time for America to stop the parade?&rdquo;</p>
<p><strong>3) Holocaust Against American Christians Approaching</strong></p>
<p>In case you thought the outpourings from Wildmon and Harvey were enough, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said this week that he&rsquo;s pretty sure gay rights advocates will &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-says-gay-rights-advocates-want-anti-christian-holocaust-will-start-rolling-out-" target="_blank">start rolling out the boxcars to start hauling off Christians</a>&rdquo; to concentration camps any day now.</p>
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<p>In keeping with the theme, Southern Baptist Convention official Russell Moore worried about the prospect of pastors soon &ldquo;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/evangelical-leaders-warn-secular-totalitarianism-and-jail-us-christians">going to jail</a>&rdquo; and Liberty Counsel attorneys Mat Staver and Matt Barber <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/staver-and-barber-take-their-analogies-extreme">offered their own Nazi Germany analogy</a>.</p>
<p><strong>2) Blame Obama (And Facebook) For Las Vegas Shooting</strong></p>
<p>No one should be surprised that <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-warns-civil-war-coming-after-las-vegas-shooting">Alex Jones</a> claimed that the <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/flashback-when-religious-right-and-republicans-quashed-investigation-right-wing-extremism"> murder of three people in Las Vegas </a> by two far-right activists hoping to launch an anti-government revolution was actually a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-warns-civil-war-coming-after-las-vegas-shooting">false flag operation by Obama</a>.</p>
<p>What is slightly surprising is that the InfoWars host claimed <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/alex-jones-says-las-vegas-shooters-facebook-likes-are-obama-zuckerberg-set"> Facebook was in on the maneuver too</a>:</p>
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<p><strong>1)</strong> <strong> Agenda 21 In Iowa</strong></p>
<p>Right-wing <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/agenda-21-gun-control-conspiracy-youve-all-been-waiting">conspiracy</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tennessee-republicans-copy-john-birch-society-model-legislation-agenda-21">theories</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/georgia-senate-gets-52-minute-briefing-united-nations-takeover">absurd</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/activists-fight-green-projects-seeing-un-plot.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">allegations</a> about how the United Nations&rsquo; Agenda 21 will take away private property rights and force people into cities have truly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/11/in-harvard-law-review-ted-cruz-blows-dog-whistle-for-conspiracy-nuts.html">gone</a> <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/03/15/is_agenda_21_a_u_n_plot_to_kill_the_suburbs/">mainstream</a> in the GOP, with the <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/12/iowa-republican-vows-to-overturn-phony-un-agenda-21-plot-to-take-away-private-property/"> latest musings about the non-binding environmental plan </a> coming from the Iowa lawmaker who just won the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>Joni Ernst, a Republican state senator, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZHzwLeTubo">suggested</a> in a 2013 speech that the United Nations will use Agenda 21 to have Iowans thrown off &ldquo;their agricultural land&rdquo; and &ldquo;consolidated into city centers.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAgenda 21Alex JonesAmerican Family Association Anti-GayC4Election 2014Joni ErnstLinda Harvey Mission America Paranoia-RamaTim Wildmon Tony Perkins Family Research CouncilFighting the Right47193Fri, 13 Jun 2014 13:00:38 -0500Tim Wildmon Right Wing Bonus Tracks - 6/11/14http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-bonus-tracks-61114
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<ul> <li> Linda Harvey warns that "<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/more-gay-pride-means-less-freedom/">more 'gay pride' means less freedom.</a>"</li> <p> <li> Jennifer Roback Morse is <a href="http://www.ruthblog.org/2014/06/10/after-the-party-an-open-letter-to-social-conservatives-in-san-diego-and-beyond/">working on</a> "a plan that recruits and trains large numbers of motivated people to create a mass social movement for social change."</li> <p> <li> Glenn Beck <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/06/11/glenn-we-are-not-the-extreme-right-we-are-the-common-sense-center-of-this-country/">says</a> Dave Brat's victory over Eric Cantor "is a return to common sense."</li> <p> <li> Chris McDaniel has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6c6Q7M3-YQ">now made</a> <em>four</em> appearances on Bryan Fischer's radio program since October.</li> <p> <li> Finally, AFA President Tim Wildmon <a href="http://action.afa.net/item.aspx?id=2147546580">declares</a> that "straight America is scared to death of offending or potentially offending gay, lesbian and transgender people and their powerful movement. It's really embarrassing to watch."</li></ul>
Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association Chris McDanielLeftoversLinda Harvey Tim Wildmon 47165Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:29:49 -0500Tim Wildmon Todd Starnes 'Cannot Wait For The Day That We Have A President That Loves America'http://www.pfaw.org/content/todd-starnes-cannot-wait-day-we-have-president-loves-america
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<p>Todd Starnes appeared on the AFA's "Today's Issues" radio program <a href="http://mediaserver3.afa.net/archives/TodaysIssues/ti_060414a.mp3">last week</a> to discuss the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl where he suggested that President Obama has "deserted" the United States of America.</p>
<p>Claiming that Bergdahl is a traitor who had betrayed his country, Starnes declared that "this soldier may not be the only one who has deserted; I think President Obama has deserted his obligations and responsibilities as President of the United States of America."</p>
<p>AFA president Tim Wildmon agreed, asserting that he feels like he is "living in the Twilight Zone" because "it's as if our own president is against our country ... I look at what's going on and I go 'whose side is this guy on?'"</p>
<p>While Wildmon predicted that this story would help the Republicans in the midterm elections because "Democrats are scurrying like rats on a ship that's on fire" to distance themselves from this story, Starnes simply stated that "I cannot wait for the day that we have a president that loves America":</p>
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Kyle MantylaAmerican Family Association President Barack ObamaTim Wildmon Todd StarnesC3Fighting the Right47111Mon, 09 Jun 2014 10:26:49 -0500Tim Wildmon Right Wing Leftovers - 5/19/14http://www.pfaw.org/content/right-wing-leftovers-51914
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<ul> <li> Oregon has become the latest state to see its anti-gay marriage amendment <a
href="http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2014/05/oregon_gay_marriage_ban_struck.html">struck down</a>.</li> <p> <li>
A smart take from <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/welcome-to-the-gay-agenda-re-education-camp-
119969/">Jeff Crouere</a>: "It seems the politically correct liberals in charge of the NFL are admirers of communism. In
Red China, Cambodia, Vietnam and other countries communist tyrants forced citizens into re-education camps to
'enlighten' their subjects about the wonderful 'benefits' of totalitarianism."</li> <p> <li>
The Maine Ethics Commission is <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/19/politics/state-ethics-investigators-recommend-
national-anti-gay-marriage-group-be-fined-50250/">considering</a> whether to fine the National Organization for Marriage
$50,000 "for failing to register and disclose its activities in Maine&rsquo;s 2009 same-sex marriage
referendum."</li> <p> <li> NOM, for its part, <a href="http://www.nomblog.com/39156/">announced</a> that
it would fight against any possible fine.</li> <p> <li> Finally, the AFA's Tim Wildmon invited Allen West
to be a guest on his radio show and then <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?
id=2147491263&tab=video&video=2147545826">completely forget</a> why he had invited him on and what he wanted to talk
about.</li></ul>Kyle MantylaLeftoversNOMTim Wildmon 46907Mon, 19 May 2014 16:30:41 -0500Tim Wildmon Anne Paulk Mocks 'Naive' Gays For Thinking God Won't Punish Themhttp://www.pfaw.org/content/anne-paulk-mocks-naive-gays-thinking-god-wont-punish-them
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<p>Ex-gay activist Anne Paulk <a href="http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147491263&tab=audio&audio=2147545353">chatted today</a> with Tim Wildmon and Ed Vitagliano of the American Family Association about her work promoting ex-gay therapy. Of course, neither Wildmon nor Vitagliano asked Paulk a single question about her ex-husband John Paulk, the one-time <a href="http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=13028">ex-gay leader</a> and <a href="http://jezebel.com/surprise-ex-gay-conversion-therapy-poster-boy-is-still-481224673">movement poster boy</a> who recently <a href="http://www.truthwinsout.org/pressrelease/2013/04/34493/">recanted and said that he is still gay</a>.</p>
<p>However, Paulk did hint at her former spouse&rsquo;s announcement in the interview: &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got an entire culture telling you that it&rsquo;s not only okay to be gay, it&rsquo;s okay to leave your opposite-gendered spouse and family and embrace a homosexual relationship, in fact we&rsquo;ll celebrate you if you do that, you&rsquo;ll be our hero. You&rsquo;ve got an entire media system with Hollywood and everything else going, &lsquo;Oh, gay people are the best.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>
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<p>Vitagliano added that &ldquo;people who continually, serially have sex with other people, you lose the ability to bond with those people like&mdash; I&rsquo;m not trying to be facetious &mdash; like duct tape that has been stuck and unstuck repeatedly, at some point it loses its ability to stick.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Paulk also repeated <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/paulk-god-punishes-gays-early-death-disease">her suggestion that sexually transmitted diseases represent divine punishment</a> for same-sex relations.</p>
<p>&ldquo;If you add in the commands of God and then if you violate them, there are consequences for them, natural consequences,&rdquo; she said while discussing the transmission of HIV. &ldquo;There are natural consequences to sin and if we hide our heads and pretend they are not there, they simply happen anyway, it&rsquo;s just a matter of naivety on the part of the person who says, &lsquo;Oh no, there&rsquo;s nothing wrong with it.&rsquo; Of course there is, it bears witness in reality, which is Romans I.&rdquo;</p>
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Brian TashmanAnne PaulkC4Ed VitaglianoEx-GayTim Wildmon Fighting the Right46654Mon, 28 Apr 2014 13:00:01 -0500Tim Wildmon