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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:21 AM May 2018

Influential religious group tells followers only Christians have First Amendment rights

By Bil Browning · Thursday, May 3, 2018

The American Family Association (AFA) is a hate group masquerading as a Christian organization. Bryan Fischer, former spokesperson for the organization, is such an extremist the group cut ties with him as an executive.

Instead, he has his own show on their radio network, where he broadcasts xenophobic, racist, and, of course, anti-LGBTQ propaganda into Christian homes nationwide. A “religious” version of Infowars’ Alex Jones, Fischer traffics in conspiracy theories, fake legal analysis, hate speech and far right politics. This time he’s telling his conservative followers that only Christians have First Amendment rights.

“The blunt, simple, direct, straightforward answer is that Wiccans do not have First Amendment rights. Nor do Muslims, nor do Jews, nor do Native Americans, nor do Rastafarians, nor do any practitioners of any other religion other than Christianity,” Fischer said on his program.

“Whatever the First Amendment is about, whatever protections it extends in the federal Constitution, those were just for Christianity. Christianity has First Amendment rights under the federal Constitution, no other religion does.”



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Influential religious group tells followers only Christians have First Amendment rights (Original Post) DonViejo May 2018 OP
Ya can't fix stupid vlyons May 2018 #1
Nothing happened to him. There's just money in it Volaris May 2018 #4
He's an unfunny joke HAB911 May 2018 #2
May your Gawd strike you dead. "Thou shall not lie." sinkingfeeling May 2018 #3
"Free speech's for everyone who agrees with me! And we'll burn the rest at the stake!" struggle4progress May 2018 #5
Bingo workinclasszero May 2018 #8
I'm not sure how "influential" they are except with radical right evangelicals. Nitram May 2018 #6
He's preaching (or spewing, really...) to people who can't read. Aristus May 2018 #7

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
1. Ya can't fix stupid
Thu May 3, 2018, 10:51 AM
May 2018

This crap is so stupid, I can't even be bothered to get irate about it. I simply ask, what happened to this man to make him so fearful and hateful towards fellow human beings. There must be some deep secret insecurity that he keeps hidden away in the back of the closet. Maybe Playboy magazines, or bondage videos, maybe his Mommy humiliated him when, as a little boy, he got an erection. Don't know what, but he's clearly off his rocker.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
8. Bingo
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:22 AM
May 2018

What these fascists want is a police state run on terror against all those not in their club/party/church w/e.

Nitram

(22,671 posts)
6. I'm not sure how "influential" they are except with radical right evangelicals.
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:16 AM
May 2018

This is not a message that would be accepted by a most Americans.

Aristus

(66,096 posts)
7. He's preaching (or spewing, really...) to people who can't read.
Thu May 3, 2018, 11:21 AM
May 2018

For those of us who can, a quick trip to a copy of the Bill of Rights puts the lie to this piece of crap.

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