Fact Sheet: Gov. Rick Perry’s Extremist Allies

[babylonsister]

Read on; this list is unbelievable. I can't even wrap my brain around this; I can't imagine this will help Perry in the long run...


Fact Sheet: Gov. Rick Perry’s Extremist Allies
Submitted by Miranda on August 5, 2011 - 7:14pm

Updated 8/5/2011

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The following is an introduction to the groups and individuals who Gov. Perry has allied himself with in planning this event.

The American Family Association

The American Family Association is the driving force behind The Response. Founded by the Rev. Don Wildmon in 1977, the organization is based is best known for its various boycott campaigns, promotion of art censorship, and political advocacy against women’s rights and LGBT equality. The organization also controls the vast American Family Radio and an online news service, in addition to sponsoring various conferences frequented by Republican leaders, including the Values Voter Summit and Rediscovering God in America. The AFA today is led by Tim Wildmon, Don’s son, and its chief spokesperson is Bryan Fischer, the Director of Issues Analysis for Government and Public Policy and host of its flagship radio show Focal Point.

Fischer routinely expresses support for some of the most bigoted and shocking ideas found in the Religious Right today. He has:

* held gays responsible for the Holocaust and likened them to domestic terrorists and Nazis who are intent on committing “virtual genocide” against the military, and asserts that “homosexuals should be disqualified from public office”;
* said “we have feminized the Medal of Honor” by awarding it to a soldier who saved his fellow combatants rather than killing enemies;
* demanded all immigrants “convert to Christianity” and renounce their religions;
* asserted that Muslims have “no fundamental First Amendment claims” and should be banned from building mosques and deported from the US, adding that Muslims are inherently stupid as a result of inbreeding;
* claimed African American women “rut like rabbits” due to welfare and that Native Americans are “morally disqualified” from living in America because they didn’t convert to Christianity and were consequently cursed by God with alcoholism and poverty;
* said that the anti-Muslim manifesto of the right-wing Christian terrorist who killed dozens in Norway was “accurate.”

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http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/fact-sheet-gov-rick-perry%E2%80%99s-extremist-allies

[Avalux]

1. Perry believes we are going through these economic hard times for a reason.....

and that reason is to force us to go back to biblical principals.

He said this in an interview, and today is his prayer convention in Houston, where radical preacher of the apocalypse John Hagee is featured.

Make no mistake what these people are working towards. And, make no mistake that Perry is so much worse than Bush, if that's possible. He's a truly evil man.

[Frustratedlady]

2. So much hatred in the name of religion.

God must be proud. :sarcasm:

[babylonsister]

3. Or astounded. nt