Will GOP Leaders Share a Stage with the Most Anti-Muslim, Anti-Gay Man in America?

This weekend (Sept. 17-19), conservative luminaries
including Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachman, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, and 2012
presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, and Mike
Pence, will be speaking at the Family Research Council's Values Voter
Summit. Sharing the stage with them will be the American Family Association's
Director of Issue Analysis Bryan Fischer. Fischer has an AFA-sponsored radio
program, which he uses to spout anti-gay and anti-Muslim propaganda. (The AFA
is also a sponsor of the Summit).

"Reasonable people can, and do, have reasonable
differences of opinion. Bryan Fischer is not a reasonable person," said Michael B. Keegan, President of People For the
American Way.

"By sharing a stage with Fischer, public figures like
Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Mike Pence, Bob McDonnell, and Michele Bachmann
don't necessarily endorse Fischer's shameless anti-Muslim and
anti-gay propaganda--but they do acknowledge its credibility. Any
candidate thinking seriously of running for president in 2012 should think
twice about standing alongside a man who has called for the deportation of all
Muslims in America; insulted
Muslim servicemembers; claimed that brave Americans died in vain because Iraq
was not converted to Christianity; and called gay people deviants, felons,
pedophiles, and terrorists. Bryan Fischer is no mainstream conservative. And
neither is any person who shares a platform with him while refusing to denounce
his hate-filled propaganda."

People For's RightWingWatch.org blog has tracked
Fischer's career over the past several years. His long and prolific record
of hate speech and extremism includes the following recent statements:

On American Muslims:

• Demanded that no
  new mosques be built anywhere in America. (8/10/2010)
• Argued that inbreeding
  has caused Muslims to be stupid and violent. (9/10/2010)
• Says that Muslims should be banned
  from serving in the U.S. military. (11/9/2009)
• Insisted that all Muslims are
  traitors, called for the deportation
  of all Muslims from the U.S. (4/10/2010)
• Claimed that U.S.
  service members died in vain because the U.S. failed to make Iraq a Christian nation. (8/19/2010)

On Gays and Lesbians:

• Said that "homosexuals
  should be disqualified
  from public office." (8/5/2010)

• Insisted that gays are
  biased, sexually deviant felons,
  not to mention pedophiles,
  and should never serve on the
  Supreme Court. (4/15/2010, 4/16/2010)
• Called gay adoption "a terrible,
  terrible, inexcusable, inhumane thing to do to children."
  (8/10/2010)

• Argued that we should "impose
  the same sanctions on those who engage in homosexual behavior as we do on
  those who engage in intravenous drug abuse." (2/3/2010)

• Wrote: "The inescapable conclusion is that gay
  sex is a form of domestic terrorism." (6/10/2010)

• Said: "Hitler discovered that
  he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious
  enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had
  no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on
  whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually
  all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals."
  (5/25/2010)

On Hispanic Americans:

• "Also, the illegitimacy rate
  among Hispanic women is over 50%.I'm
  not sure pro-family values are as strong in the Hispanic community as Dr.
  Land wants to believe." (7/23/2010)

On President Obama:

• "And remember
  the President's been a fascist ... he says 'I've been a fascist from
  day one. They can't blow their nose without asking
  permission from me, they can't clean the wax out of their ears unless they
  get a sign-off from me.' That's what fascist dictators do!"(6/18/2010)

On the Animal Kingdom:

• Lamented that a whale at
  SeaWorld wasn't stoned
  to death for killing its trainer. (2/25/2010)
• Oh, and by the way: God
  is cursing us with bear attacks for failing to follow the
  Bible. (6/21/2010)