Covering Bryan Fischer - small-town pastor turned national poster boy for hate speech

“The only difference between Fischer and Jesus Christ is that Jesus does not think he is Bryan Fischer.”

That is was a former member of Bryan Fischer’s church said about him in a Jan. 2001 letter to the Idaho Statesman whom Fischer earlier had kicked out of his church. Her sin: she left her husband and got a divorce.

Bryan Fischer is a media savvy, well-educated fraud, and pious bully. He has caused a lot of pain in suffering in the LGBT community during his 29-years in Idaho and is now spreading his misery across the country.

Fischer left Idaho in mid-2009 and became the director of Issue Analysis at the American Family Association (AFA). In large part due to Fischer’s vitriolic hate speech against gays and Muslims, the AFA was designated a hate group last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Having covered Fischer for years, both Idaho journalist Jill Kuraitis and I co-authored an in-depth story detailing Fischer’s earlier years for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Our story is included in the 23-page SPLC report, “THE PROPAGANDISTS: Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association & the Demonization of LGBT People,” released Oct. 10.

Now with a microphone, Fischer has ratcheted up his rhetoric claiming gays are “the single greatest perpetrators of hate crimes in the planet, outside of the Muslim religion.” He compares the “homosexual agenda” with Islamic fundamentalism, calling it “the same dark energy.”

Fischer has aggressively prompted his friend Scott Lively (of Uganda’s Kill- The-Gays bill fame) and Lively’s widely debunked book The Pink Swastika that essentially blames gays for the Holocaust. Fischer told listeners on 200 AFA radio stations that “Homosexuality gave us Adolf Hitler, and the homosexual in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.

It was Jesus who said: those without sin cast the first stone.

Well, Fischer regularly commits the sin of bearing false witness against not just LGBTQ people, but Muslims, and other minority groups. Yet he sits daily high on his AFA bully pulpit in his own person quarry, throwing stones every day and claims to be a religious man. When Fischer receives any pushback or criticism, he plays the victim card. Since the report was released Fischer has claimed it is “full of lies, errors and distortions,” yet he, nor his handlers, ever responded to multiple requests for him to weigh in and answer questions. Proving what a hypocrite Fischer is, he called SPLC Intelligence Director “spineless,” “a wimp” and a “coward” for not coming on his show to answer to Fischer complaints.

I am certain the majority of true Christians do not view Fischer’s hate speech as a Christ like response to the things he objects to.

A copy of the full SPLC report, including May-Chang & Kuraitis’s expose’ can be downloaded at http://may-chang.com/?p=3686. The article will be published in the November issue of the SPLC magazine the Intelligence Report.