Posted above is the video from American Family Radio show that was broadcast today.
If you're not familiar with this little echo chamber of insanity and hate, well, first, let me apologize for sullying your innocence, and brace yourself before you click play.
It's a word salad of crazy. The man speaking is Bryan Fischer, head of the American Family Association (so much more about him here). He says the Black Panthers have no first amendment right to peaceably assemble. (Of course not, his racism is well documented.) He says gay scoutmasters have only one mission, which is of course, to molest your dear cub scouts. He uses the religious right's new catch-phrase for marriage equality, "sodomy based marriage," which I admit, I find oddly attractive. Perhaps I've erred in the past in basing my same-sex relationships on mutual love, affection and respect? Perhaps I should try basing them on sodomy instead?
Anyway, the radio show is operated by the American Family Association, one of the leading groups waging war against gays, feminazies, and anyone else who aspires to live in a 21th century democracy and not a 12th century theocracy. They are a Southern Poverty Law Center identified hate group. American Family Association has an annual budget of $14 million and this radio program is broadcast over 180 stations in 28 states. And this sort of insanity is broadcast daily.
So, this is kind of the prime nexus of the American Taliban.
Fischer is discussing social conservatives' feelings on Mitt Romney. Fischer apparently is going down a laundry list provided by Think Progress here, of Romney's history with the gay community, which like every other issue, has been marked by many bipolar declarations.
Fischer says, conservatives have to press Romney on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would ban employment discrimination against LGBT people saying, "he promised in writing to sign it." (Fact check, he probably promised to support it as a MA senate candidate, way back when, which isn't really the same as saying he'd sign it a president. Regardless, 77% of American support it anyway, so it is hardly a radical position if he did.)
He throttles Romney for not promising to reinstate "Don't ask, don't tell."
He revisits the meme that Mitt Romney "imposed same-sex marriage on Massachusetts and the United Staes by executive fiat." Yes, social conservatives believe that the Supreme Court decision that ushered in marriage equality in Massachusetts is somehow Romney's fault.
He insists marriage equality is still illegal in Massachusetts. Fischer is apparently completely unclear on the concept of how a Supreme Court decision can render a law inoperable (unless of course, a court strikes down a law they don't like).
He mentions his buddy Tony Perkins' reservations about Romney (lots more on him here). Perkins is the head of the Family Research Council, also a hate group. One would like to believe this sort of radical, extremists views are fringe. Unfortunately, Family Research Council is the third biggest-spending religious lobbyist in Washington, DC. AFA is similar in their spending exclusively to push the war on gays (and women too, reproductive rights are high on their priority list).
Fischer finishes with:
There is going to be no enthusiasm among social conservatives for Mitt Romney. None. Zero. If social conservatives vote for Mitt Romney it's only because the alternative is unthinkable.
Of course the problem is, the alternative is absolutely not unthinkable, it's actually reality, the reality that the rest of us live in anyways.
The alternative has already been president for three years.
And none of the horrible, awful things that were predicated by the crew at American Family Association came true, did they?
But it's coming second term. Forced gay marriage and forced abortions for everyone. You know it's coming!
Just like the NRA sees through Obama's nefarious second term plan to come and take your guns!