AFA Michigan won’t reject Fischer’s latest outrage

The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer penned a blog post titled “Native Americans morally disqualified themselves from the land.”

In that post Fischer argues that the domination of the North American continent was accomplished because of European morality. His thesis was:

The native American tribes at the time of the European settlement and founding of the United States were, virtually without exception, steeped in the basest forms of superstition, had been guilty of savagery in warfare for hundreds of years, and practiced the most debased forms of sexuality.

The post has since disappeared from the Rightly Concerned blog, which is, “A project of the American Family Association.” AFA is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.

Messenger e-mailed Gary Glenn, who leads the AFA Michigan affiliate, and asked for his take on Fischer’s blog. Here’s what Glenn had to say:

There are lots of issues AFA-Michigan doesn’t address. Bryan Fischer’s topic of the day is among them, aside from strongly agreeing, of course, that America would greatly benefit morally, spiritually, socially, and even fiscally from a return to the near-universal respect of the Christian faith and values on which we were founded.

That seems a very politically careful statement, careful to neither endorse nor reject Fischer’s statements.

Glenn is one of 23 state directors for the AFA, including Scott Lively of California. Even among the anti-gay religious right, Lively stands out for the virulence and, yes, savagery of his bigotry. He is the co-author of The Pink Swastika, a book that claims that “homosexuals are the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities.” Never mind that homosexuality was outlawed in Nazi Germany and that the Nazi government killed hundreds of thousands of homosexuals along with six million Jews in their death camps.

Both Fischer and Lively are strong advocates of criminalizing homosexuality. Fischer has argued that all homosexuals should be forced into “reversion therapy” to turn them into straight people. Lively openly advocates for putting gays in prison.

Glenn also thinks the states should be allowed to criminalize homosexuality, telling the Messenger last February, “The short answer to your question is yes, we believe that states should be free to regulate and prohibit behavior that’s a violation of community standards and a proven threat to public health and safety — including, as most of the United States did throughout its history, homosexual behavior.”