The American Family Association - named an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center - has come out with a new video attacking President Obama over what they call a disrespect of Easter, and by proxy, Christians:
In a statement, the AFA said the following:
So apparently when they are not bashing lgbts, the AFA is practicing a bit of Islamophobia, i.e. making sure to exploit the ignorance of some Americans who see Obama as a Muslim (which translates to them as a threatening outsider determined to destroy the United States from within).
It's a cheap piece of junk from what is supposed to be a Christian organization. Steve Benen of The Washington Monthly point out:
Benen points out that Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha didn't get that type of treatment.
He also said the following:
Perhaps that the Biblical verses - Judge not, that ye be not judged. . . Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye is a very appropriate response to the AFA here.
In other words, AFA, you forget about your phony outrage at "Obama's Easter controversy," and the rest of us may forget your:
Seems to me that before the AFA can declare themselves as defenders of all that is Christians, the organization needs lessons in the basic ideas of truth and integrity.
Those are, after all, two tenets of the Christian religion.
Hat tip to People for the American Way's Right-Wing Watch
In a statement, the AFA said the following:
This is consistent with other egregious examples of disregard for our Christian heritage on the president's part, such as omitting "Creator" from the Declaration of Independence, which he has done on at least three occasions.
The president has shown far more interest in promoting Islam than his own self-proclaimed Christian faith, the faith of our Founding Fathers.
The president has been devoted to issuing statements marking all major Muslim holidays, which are of no historical significance to the United States whatsoever. He has released statements in honor of Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, holidays which most Americans cannot pronounce and certainly do not celebrate.
So apparently when they are not bashing lgbts, the AFA is practicing a bit of Islamophobia, i.e. making sure to exploit the ignorance of some Americans who see Obama as a Muslim (which translates to them as a threatening outsider determined to destroy the United States from within).
It's a cheap piece of junk from what is supposed to be a Christian organization. Steve Benen of The Washington Monthly point out:
The first is that the Obama White House didn't exactly ignore Easter. The First Family, for example, attended services yesterday. There's not only a big Easter Egg Roll for families at the White House today, but President Obama also hosted an Easter prayer breakfast last week, during which he told attendees the following:
"I wanted to host this breakfast for a simple reason -- because as busy as we are, as many tasks as pile up, during this season, we are reminded that there's something about the resurrection -- something about the resurrection of our savior, Jesus Christ, that puts everything else in perspective.
"We all live in the hustle and bustle of our work... But then comes Holy Week. The triumph of Palm Sunday. The humility of Jesus washing the disciples' feet. His slow march up that hill, and the pain and the scorn and the shame of the cross. And we're reminded that in that moment, he took on the sins of the world -- past, present and future -- and he extended to us that unfathomable gift of grace and salvation through his death and resurrection.
"In the words of the book Isaiah: "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
Benen points out that Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha didn't get that type of treatment.
He also said the following:
The other point to keep in mind is that George W. Bush was in office for eight years. How many Easter proclamations did he issue? Zero.
. . . Reagan and H.W. Bush didn't issue official Easter proclamations
Perhaps that the Biblical verses - Judge not, that ye be not judged. . . Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye is a very appropriate response to the AFA here.
In other words, AFA, you forget about your phony outrage at "Obama's Easter controversy," and the rest of us may forget your:
- constant homophobia - especially inaccurately linking lgbts to pedophiles (a classic case of bearing false witness),
- employing the rabid Bryan Fischer who has- when he's not claiming that gays made up the Nazi Party in German:
- made an ugly racial slur about President Obama,
- viciously attacked a Medal of Honor recipient, and
- wrote a ridiculous piece about the supposed lack of morals of Native Americans
- and continuing to sell the fraudulent video "It's Not Gay," featuring the testimony of supposed "ex-gay" Michael Johnston (even though Johnston, an HIV-positive man, was discovered in 2003 to be having unprotected sex with various men). The AFA, by the way, is still selling the tape (seen here with Johnston's face is on the cover in this link).
Seems to me that before the AFA can declare themselves as defenders of all that is Christians, the organization needs lessons in the basic ideas of truth and integrity.
Those are, after all, two tenets of the Christian religion.
Hat tip to People for the American Way's Right-Wing Watch
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