‘bryan fischer’ Archives
Freedom From Religion Foundation Needs Grammar Lesson
By Bryan Fischer The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) has sued Texas Gov. Rick Perry because he has called for a day of prayer and fasting on August 6. The event, sponsored by the American Family Association, will take place in Reliant Stadium - home of the NFL Texans - in Houston. (For more information, go to TheResponseUSA.com) FFRF [...]
Surprise, surprise: Wingers on the left distort my views
By Bryan Fischer In a lame effort to discredit Gov. Rick Perry’s call for a national day of prayer and fasting (called “The Response”) on August 6, the leftwing blogosphere has gone after the American Family Association in general and after me in particular. The winger-left political website Mother Jones strung together a litany of [...]
Homosexuals Commit Hate Crimes, Part 4, Feds Now Guilty
By Bryan Fischer “A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” - USLegal.com The following document came into my inbox [...]
Homosexuals Commit Hate Crimes, Part 4: Feds Now Guilty
By Bryan Fischer “A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” - USLegal.com The following document came into my inbox [...]
Homosexuals Commit Hate Crimes, Part 3: US Military
By Bryan Fischer “A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” - USLegal.com Get ready for an entire spate of hate crimes [...]
Girl Died From a Brutal Beating, Not a Spanking
By Bryan Fischer Here is the breathless headline from “fair and balanced” FoxNews: Dad Arrested After 2-Year-Old Texas Girl Dies Following Spanking This is an atrocious headline, a terribly distorted headline, for one simple reason: it’s flatly not true. And the first line of the story is equally and just as terribly and [...]
Homosexuals Commit Hate Crimes – Part 2
By Bryan Fischer “A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” - USLegal.com Well, homosexuals have racked up another hate [...]
Doctor Richard Scott: Victim of Hate Crime in U.K.
By Bryan Fischer “A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” - USLegal.com If facing harassment because others have [...]
Homosexuals Commit Hate Crimes – Part 1
By Bryan Fischer “A hate crime is usually defined by state law as one that involves threats, harassment, or physical harm and is motivated by prejudice against someone's race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation or physical or mental disability.” - USLegal.com If hate crimes involve threats or harassment [...]
Geert Wilders’ Warns America’s Christians – Are We Listening?
By Bryan Fischer Geert Wilders is a Dutch parliamentarian who is facing prison in his home country because he has said the same things about Islam that I have said repeatedly on air and in print. He is being prosecuted for inciting hatred and committing hate crimes for saying that Islam is a dangerous ideology, the Qur’an is just an [...]
GOP Presidential Primary: Ruling Class vs. Citizen Class
By Bryan Fischer It is becoming increasingly clear that the 2012 GOP primary is going to be a showdown at high noon between ruling class Republicans - the big wallet GOP elites that are used to pulling the levers of power - and citizen class Republicans - the ordinary, grassroots conservatives who make up the Tea Party. Right now the [...]
Men of Faith Should Be Involved in Politics
By Bryan Fischer Moses is a figure who towers over biblical history and world history, widely recognized, even by secular sources, as the greatest lawgiver of all time. His writings were frequently cited by the founders of Christianity, beginning with Christ himself. He is described as a “man of God,” and had the rare distinction [...]
Big winner after Huck’s announcement: Herman Cain
By Bryan Fischer Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee declared last night that he will not run for the presidency in 2012. Prayer factored heavily in his decision, and I’m guessing a $2.8 million mortgage on a Florida beach house made it a little easier to hear from the Lord. Here’s a quick rundown of the current field, from the [...]
Obama’s Right: Only Way is to Give Everybody a Haircut
By Bryan Fischer From a purely pragmatic, practical standpoint, there is only way to balance the budget: give everybody a haircut, just like President Obama said. Cut every item in the federal budget by the same amount, so everybody participates in that “shared sacrifice” the president is so fond of. I read an economist this week [...]
Mighty Sears Surrenders to AFA in Culture Skirmish
By Bryan Fischer Sears is No. 48 on the Fortune 500 list, and yet ran up the white flag of surrender in less than 24 hours when the American Family Association network kicked into high gear to complain about its sale of hardcore pornography. Sears, believe it or not, the “place where America shops,” has been selling hardcore [...]
Jesus is Coming Back on May 21 – Not
By Bryan Fischer Harold Camping, a Florida evangelist, has kicked a considerable amount of dust into the air by claiming that Christ will return for Christians on May 21, with the end of the world to occur a scant five months later on October 21. The only thing we know for absolutely sure is that Harold Camping is wrong. Why? Because [...]
GLAAD Can’t Handle the Truth, Hates the First Amendment
By Bryan Fischer My appearance on the Houston Fox affiliate last week has generated something of a national furor. Entertainment Weekly, the Miami Herald, New York Magazine, the Hollywood Reporter and others have done stories on GLAAD’s call for Fox to apologize for even giving me any air to breathe. GLAAD, which stands for the Gay [...]
I Welcome the Democrats to The “Support Capital Punishment” Club
By Bryan Fischer Well, a mass murderer has been executed by getting half of his face blown off, and 21 civilians were killed in the same raid, including one of the man’s wives he was using as a shield. And the Democrats are giddy with excitement. They cannot stop congratulating themselves and President Obama for directing the [...]
Muslims Do Not Believe in “Peace and Human Dignity” – Obama Says So
By Bryan Fischer When president Obama announced the assassination of Osama bin Laden last night, he said “his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.” This came in the context of saying that we are not “at war with Islam” and that Osama “was not a Muslim leader.” Okay, then, the president is [...]
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid: Not Proper Roles of Government
By Bryan Fischer If you were to try to figure out what the purpose of our federal government is by looking at what it actually does, you’d have to conclude that its purpose is to involuntarily transfer wealth from producers to non-producers. In other words, its purpose seems to be to rip off some citizens and give this legalized plunder to [...]
Tennessee Pastor Goes to Jail for Protecting Child and Mom
By Bryan Fischer (It should be noted that the American Family Association has taken no formal position on either Lisa Miller’s actions or the actions of Pastor Timothy Miller. Please see note at end of this column. ~ B.F.) Tennessee pastor Timothy Miller is now in jail. His crime? Allegedly helping a mother protect her daughter from [...]
How About Killing Gadhafi Because He Killed Americans?
By Bryan Fischer Sen. Lindsey Graham and Sen. John McCain are now openly advocating the targeting of Col. Muammar Gadhafi by Western forces, in what would amount to an assassination attempt. The only thing wrong with this picture is they want him dead because he killed Libyans instead of wanting him dead because he killed Americans. We [...]
LGBT Site Accidentally Proves People Aren’t “Born That Way”
By Bryan Fischer There is a fatuous and wholly unsupportable myth abroad that gays and lesbians are “born that way,” and just can’t help it. They must act out on abnormal sexual impulses because that’s they way they have been hardwired from birth. Even Lady Gaga is perpetuating the myth with her new song, “Born This [...]
Instant Balanced Budget: Don’t Raise the Debt Ceiling
By Bryan Fischer Well, it turns out we don’t have as much time as we thought. We are going to hit the legal limit on borrowing to increase the national debt in less than a week. We’ve got about $25 billion in borrowing authority left, and we’re plowing through that at about $4.5 billion a day. The math is not difficult here, although [...]
Mr. Obama Stuck to His Principles on Life; Mr. Boehner Didn’t
By Bryan Fischer A defining moment in American political history occurred when President Obama and John Boehner went mano-a-mano in a private meeting over funding for Planned Parenthood. The speaker wanted to defund this baby-killing franchise, and the president wanted to keep the taxpayer spigot wide-open. Last Friday was the moment of [...]
Mitt Romney: The Man Who Gave Us Homosexual Marriage
By Bryan Fischer Former Massachusetts’ governor Mitt Romney announced his official intention to run for the presidency this week. His candidacy has one potentially insurmountable problem: America has same-sex marriage because of Mitt Romney. This is just one of several huge vulnerabilities Mitt Romney has as he tries to convince [...]
Immigration Policy: Obey The Law, Assimilate, No Welfare
By Bryan Fischer With regard to the immigration of aliens into ancient Israel, the Mosaic civil code was clear: there was to be one rule and one law for everybody. “here shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you...You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord. One law and one rule shall be for you and [...]
GOP: Stop Playing Dodge Ball, Start Playing Hard Cheese
By Bryan Fischer It is a bit distressing to watch the Republican leadership, starting with Speaker Boehner, wander around on this budget business, continually allowing themselves to be demagogued by the left and outmaneuvered at every turn. The Republican strategy should have been firm, fixed and gloriously simple. They sent the Democrats a [...]
Implementation of LGBT Law in Military Will Be a Confused Snarl
By Bryan Fischer As hearings before Congress have already indicated, implementing the LGBT law in the United States military will prove to be a confused snarl. The House Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing tomorrow (Thursday) on the subject of implementing the repeal of the longstanding ban on homosexual service in the armed [...]
Left Goes Wiggy: Wildly False Accusations of Racism
By Bryan Fischer My column of yesterday has lit up the blogosphere with false accusations that I am some kind of virulent racist. This was in response to my statement that our welfare policies - in which we subsidize and reward sex outside of marriage - is incentivizing people of all ethnic groups to “rut like rabbits.” This is a [...]
Jesus Groomed His Apostles for Political Office
By Bryan Fischer People who say the followers of Christ shouldn’t be involved in politics aren’t paying attention. And they aren’t paying attention to Jesus himself. During the Last Supper, Jesus said to his chosen 12 (11 if you subtract Judas from the mix), “I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may [...]
Hey Libs: Listen to Yourselves: Beheadings Are Your Fault
By Bryan Fischer Who is to blame for the deaths of the innocents in Afghanistan over the weekend, including the beheading of two UN soldiers from Nepal? Well, if we take the liberals at their word, they are. First, who are the ones who have been telling us ad nauseum that it’s perfectly okay to desecrate symbols that are considered [...]
Donald Trump is Not The Guy
By Bryan Fischer Donald Trump is making plans to spend $600 million of his own money to convince the American people he ought to be our next president. Even conservative Republicans seem momentarily entranced by the possibility, including Rush Limbaugh, who has had Trump as a guest on his program and has done nothing to discourage his [...]
What Part of “Killer Whale” Does Sea World Not Understand?
By Bryan Fischer You remember, of course, that a 12,000 pound killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando killed his trainer Dawn Brancheau last year by pulling her into a pool by her pony tail and dragging and thrashing her around until she drowned in front of a crowd of stunned guests, which of course included young children. That’s another [...]
Wilders is Right: Ban Muslim Immigration, Building of Mosques
By Bryan Fischer The leftwing political websites lit up over my column of last week in which I took the position that the First Amendment provides no guarantees to practitioners of the Islamic faith, for the simple reason it wasn’t written to protect the free exercise of Islam. It was written to protect the free exercise of the Christian [...]
Islam and The First Amendment: Privileges But Not Rights
By Bryan Fischer The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity. They were making no effort to give special protections to Islam. Quite the contrary. We actually at the time were dealing with our first encounters with jihad in the form of the Barbary Pirates, which is why Jefferson bought a [...]
No-Fly Zone Aiding and Abetting Al Qaeda
By Bryan Fischer Al Qaeda is behind the rebellion in Libya. So this no-fly zone is in fact helping the Muslims who killed 3000 Americans on 9/11. But helping our sworn enemies, especially if they are Muslims, does not seem to be a bother to Obama. --- Here’s your “Religion of Peace” update for the day: Here are two Tweets from a [...]
Constitution irrelevant to Obama
By Bryan Fischer President Obama has absolutely no authority to declare war on Libya, which is exactly what he did by establishing the no-fly zone and sending missiles into Libya. Under any construction, bombing constitutes an act of war. But only Congress has the authority to declare war. The UN has no authority to declare war on our behalf. [...]
No-Fly Zone an Act of War – We Need Another War?
By Bryan Fischer This is just bizarre. President Obama's rationale for bombing Libya is exactly the same as Bush's for invading Iraq: to liberate people from a ruthless dictator. Another indication that he is utterly clueless, flailing about in every situation for some idea of what to do. He has no strategy or policy regarding the Middle [...]
Porn Industry Gets Its Own Domain; Not a Peep From Obama
By Bryan Fischer The porn industry will get its own domain tomorrow (.xxx). The Bush administration fought this for years, but Obama has been silent and passive, voting “present” as usual. This will worsen the porn problem, since all porn sites will keep their .com sites up and running. There is no First Amendment protection for [...]
Muslims Want to Make White House a Mosque; Demolish Statue of Liberty
By Bryan Fischer Last week, Rep. Peter King held hearings on the dangers of Islamic radicalization in the United States. He was widely criticized by strident voices on the left for doing so. But he had every reason to hold these hearings. Even Janet Napolitano, head of Homeland Security, has admitted that our greatest terror threats now do not [...]
Parental Divorce the Major Predictor of an Early Death
By Bryan Fischer According to a new book, "The Longevity Project," parental divorce during childhood is the single strongest predictor of early death in adulthood. Children who experienced the divorce of their parents in childhood died about five years earlier, on average, than children who grew up in intact families. This is clearly a call [...]
Mitt Romney: The Man Responsible For Gay Marriage in the U.S.
By Bryan Fischer This 2007 New York Times piece should be Mitt Romney's 2012 death knell. He got the endorsement of the pro-gay Log Cabin Club in his 2002 run for governor of Massachusetts, and pledged to use the bully pulpit as governor to lobby for special workplace rights based exclusively on sexually deviant behavior. He promised to be [...]
Injustice the Problem, Capital Punishment the Solution
By Bryan Fischer “For your lifeblood I will require a reckoning...from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.” ~ Genesis 9:5-6 “Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the [...]
“Good Christian Bitches” Series is a Hate Crime
By Bryan Fischer “Good Christian Bitches”series is a hate crime: ABC is developing a pilot for a new series entitled "Good Christian Bitches," about snarky Christian women who maliciously gossip about a newcomer. Why, I believe that makes this show a hate crime! It’s religious bigotry, prejudice, animus, stereo-typed based thinking and [...]
Roberts, Scalia, Thomas Dead Wrong in Westboro Ruling
By Bryan Fischer Justices Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas are all wrong in their ruling on the reprehensible Westboro Baptist Church protests at military funerals. Alito alone is right. As he says, the First Amendment is "not a license for vicious verbal assault." The gay-haters at Westboro have plenty of free speech avenues open to them - [...]
Newt Gingrich and 2012
By Bryan Fischer Newt Gingrich is evidently just days away from formally announcing his bid for the presidency in 2012. Although it is a very difficult thing to say, I believe social conservatives and all those in the pro-family movement must have grave reservations about his candidacy. I would have said nothing about this at all were Mr. [...]
Sounds of silence: GOP 2012 hopefuls on Obama and DOMA
By Bryan Fischer That nothingness you hear is the silence from GOP 2012 hopefuls on Obama's dereliction of duty with regard to DOMA. Nothing from Palin, Romney, Daniels, little and late from Pawlenty, Newt, Barbour. Huckabee's come the closest, saying only that Obama's actions are "utterly inexplicable." Where is the leadership on this [...]
Obama’s Refusal to Defend DOMA Violates His Oath of Office
By Bryan Fischer Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer, on Facebook at “Focal Point” Here is some analysis of President Obama’s refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in Court. --- Obama is violating his oath of office by refusing to defend DOMA. The Constitution he took a solemn and sacred oath to "preserve, protect and defend" [...]
USA Today: Yes, We Will Right to the Last Ditch
By Bryan Fischer Follow me on Twitter: @BryanJFischer USA Today wants to know if pro-family groups will fight to defend natural marriage “to the last ditch,” and if they believe this is a “hill...to die on.” The answer to both questions is the same: unambiguously, unequivocally, unwaveringly, yes. The USA Today op-ed argues that [...]
