On Friday, FRC’s annual conservative conference will give a platform to presidential contenders and high-ranking GOP leaders, a platform that will be shared by individuals with a penchant for rhetoric that stigmatizes minority communities in America
“„Bryan Fischer deserves to be a marginalized figure, not a celebrity embraced by the mainstream GOP. I hope that you won’t silently hand over the microphone at a nationally televised event to a man with such a record of bigotry – including towards members of your own faith. Will you publicly distance yourself from Fischer and his dangerous rhetoric? [...]
“„Fischer has:
“„“[T]he homosexual community, the activists, they are very aggressive. … Our response to them should be one of love and of compassion. … To me that is the height of hatred, to be silent when we know there are individuals that are engaged in activity, behavior and an agenda that will destroy them and our nation.”
“„“Can you imagine George Washington, Ronald Reagan, or any other president telling school children that it’s okay to be immoral and that they’ll eventually feel better about it? It’s disgusting. And it’s part of a concerted effort to persuade kids that homosexuality is okay and actually to recruitthem into that ‘lifestyle.’”
“„“I suspect many servicemembers, their families, veterans and citizens are wondering what to do to stop this ill-advised repeal of a policy that has achieved a balance between a citizen’s desire to serve and acceptable conduct.”
“„“What happens when individuals get pushed into positions, or elevated to positions for which they’re not qualified? … This is a problem with affirmative action, is that people get pushed, pushed, pushed farther than their abilities can match the position, and then they just keep failing, then they feel terrible about themselves, then everyone’s annoyed. … Well I have a question. Herman Cain, if he became president, he would be the first black president, when you measure it by — because he doesn’t — does he have a white mother, white father, grandparents, no, right? So Herman Cain … he could make the claim to be the first — yeah, the first Main Street black Republican to be the president of the United States. Right?”
“„“Now we don’t have clear data, getting to your question about what black family life looked like during slavery, as what the attacks are now even against people like Michele Bachmann who signed on to a document that said the black family was more intact than it is today. … I’m going back to this point in history that they went back to, which was slavery, during slavery. Because black family life, in the vulnerable state that it was, some could say was more healthy than it is today.”