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SPLC: Yesterday, the AFA sent us a letter repudiating some views of Bryan Fischer. We responded.
01/29/2015
American Family Association repudiates chief spokesmans racist and anti-LGBT statements before hosting Israel trip for RNC members
In a letter to SPLC officials, the American Family Association (AFA) has disavowed a series of racist and bigoted statements made by its chief spokesman in recent years.
The repudiation of Bryan Fischers statements came just two days before members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) are scheduled to embark on a trip to Israel sponsored by the AFA.
Last week, the SPLC wrote to all 168 members of the RNC urging them not to accompany the AFA on the trip because of the groups long track record of bigotry and hate. The SPLC has named the AFA as a hate group due to its history of making false, demonizing statements about the LGBT community, including Fischers contention that gay men were responsible for the Holocaust.
SPLC President Richard Cohen, in a letter to the AFA today (see below), wrote that its difficult to see the AFAs disavowal as anything other than an effort to quell the negative press attention youre receiving in connection with your sponsorship of an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel for members of the Republican National Committee.
Link: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/american-family-association-repudiates-chief-spokesman-s-racist-and-anti-lgbt-stat
American Family Association repudiates chief spokesmans racist and anti-LGBT statements before hosting Israel trip for RNC members
In a letter to SPLC officials, the American Family Association (AFA) has disavowed a series of racist and bigoted statements made by its chief spokesman in recent years.
The repudiation of Bryan Fischers statements came just two days before members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) are scheduled to embark on a trip to Israel sponsored by the AFA.
Last week, the SPLC wrote to all 168 members of the RNC urging them not to accompany the AFA on the trip because of the groups long track record of bigotry and hate. The SPLC has named the AFA as a hate group due to its history of making false, demonizing statements about the LGBT community, including Fischers contention that gay men were responsible for the Holocaust.
SPLC President Richard Cohen, in a letter to the AFA today (see below), wrote that its difficult to see the AFAs disavowal as anything other than an effort to quell the negative press attention youre receiving in connection with your sponsorship of an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel for members of the Republican National Committee.
Link: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/american-family-association-repudiates-chief-spokesman-s-racist-and-anti-lgbt-stat
The full letter from the AFA can be found at link as well as the reply from the SPLC.
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SPLC: Yesterday, the AFA sent us a letter repudiating some views of Bryan Fischer. We responded. (Original Post)
inanna
Jan 2015
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tblue
(16,350 posts)1. Spot on. They still own this crap and so do
the RNCers who align themselves with AFA. Nothing's changed there, except now everybody knows about it.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. Hate group AFA sponsors hate group GOP trip to Israel.
Behind the Aegis
(53,949 posts)3. This plays into the hands of so many.
philathome
(7 posts)4. who is going- is there a list?
Is there a list of who is going? I'm wondering if my newly elected (R) congressman is going.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)5. Bryan Fischer is a bigoted hateful loon.
Most Republicans agree with him but they don't want you to know it. Racists hate being outed as racists.
Gothmog
(145,126 posts)6. The SPLC does a great job
Paladin
(28,252 posts)7. And, contrary to earlier reports, Fischer is still on the AFA payroll.
They just shifted the deranged old hate-monger from one position to another.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)8. FWIW, whoever in Israel is hosting these tourists needs to get respectfully penned letters, too.
They're 'looking for love in all the wrong places' by inviting the AFA, who mean Israel no good. They're using Israel's existence as slogans and their bodies as mere cannonfodder. It's beyond sick. JMHO.