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AFA to Beck on same-sex marriage: “wake up and smell the arsenic”

August 30, 2010 4:47 pm ET by Karl Frisch

The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer is still mad at Glenn Beck for not being sufficiently anti-gay.  Remember, Beck recently told his Fox News colleague Bill O’Reilly that there are “bigger fish to fry” than same-sex marriage.

Yes, Beck has a long history of pushing anti-gay misinformation, but Fischer wants more out of the right-wing host. Fischer scolds Beck in a post filled with homophobic lies and misinformation, writing:

Glenn, Glenn, wake up and smell the arsenic, my friend.

[Marriage equality is] a threat to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, and worst, represents a clear and present danger to children. What were you thinking?

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Glenn, Glenn, Glenn: if special rights are given to people just because they want to use the alimentary canal for sexual purposes, no social conservative will be able to criticize homosexual behavior on biblical or moral grounds without running the risk of legal punishment.

Goodbye freedom of speech and goodbye freedom of religion. You, Glenn, will have aided and abetted those who are out to destroy two of the inalienable rights God has given to men, and you don’t think that’s a threat to this country? Wake up and smell the toxins, my friend.

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Glenn, Glenn, Glenn: what about vulnerable children who are deliberately being stuck in households headed by people who engage in unnatural sexual behavior and in households where they are going to grow up missing either the love of a mother or a father or both? Your laissez-faire view of marriage consigns such children to a deprived childhood. Do you not care about that? Do you not believe the state has a legitimate interest in their welfare? How can children suffer such damage without harm to our republic and its values?

This of course comes from the AFA and Fischer who think too many Indian-Americans are winning spelling bees and wants to deport all Muslims. Seriously.

Beck must be shaking in his boots -- imagine if he really did become a champion of LGBT equality (he hasn’t) -- Fischer’s head just might explode.

h/t Towleroad

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    • Author by nerzog (August 30, 2010 4:51 pm ET)
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      Better get on board, Nostradumbass, or your Black Robed Troglodytes will toss you aside.
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    • Author by wookie (August 30, 2010 4:56 pm ET)
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      So apparently gay marriage is the biggest fish to fry? What a relief to not have to think about war, terrorism, or environmental disasters.
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    • Author by Invent a Scandal (August 30, 2010 4:57 pm ET)
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      Of course this whackadoodle is upset about Indians winning spelling bees,

      Conservatives are nototiously bad spellers. It just makes Cons look even worse. The conservative party has become very dumbed down.
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    • Author by bintx (August 30, 2010 5:03 pm ET)
         
      I'm telling you, Beck is ticking off the very people he's trying to pull. He's preaching false doctrine and he's not choosing the right "causes" to oppose. Let's hope he continues to show what a charlatan he is.
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    • Author by MiG (August 30, 2010 5:42 pm ET)
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      if special rights are given to people just because they want to use the alimentary canal for sexual purposes, no social conservative will be able to criticize homosexual behavior on biblical or moral grounds without running the risk of legal punishment.
      Only a closeted homosexual could put it that way (no pun intended.)
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