Bryan Fischer spins a lie about gays & rape and his supporters couldn't back him up

Bryan Fischer spins a lie no one will back him up on.

An incident took place over a number of days involving me, arch-homophobe Bryan Fischer and conservative rag One News Now. In the great scheme of things, particularly what's going on now, it's probably highly irrelevant. Still, it's a nice victory that I want to brag about.

First of all, a little background for those who aren't aware about Bryan Fischer - he is an extremely homophobic person who has written and said some of the most vulgar things about the LGBTQ community such as:

we began the Nazi party in Germany,

our children ought to be taken away from us via kidnapping,

and we should be criminalized and treated like drug addicts.

His rhetoric is so ugly that the American Family Association (itself a vile anti-LGBTQ hate group) made a huge show out of dismissing him as a spokesperson in 2015. However, he still retains use of the group's name and its resources to pump out his bigotry. One News Now (affiliated with AFA) generally posts his pieces

In his latest piece, Eye-opening rape report exposes stomach-twisting stats, Fischer attempts to make the case that allowing gays to openly serve in the military has increased the rate of male-on-male rapes in the Armed Forces. Part of it reads as follows:

 Homosexuals have been allowed to serve openly in the U.S. military since the disastrously misguided repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in late 2010. President Obama was able to ram the repeal through just under the wire because the Democrats temporarily held both houses of Congress, a situation that would change with the election in the fall of 2010. Elections have consequences, and open homosexuality in the military was one of the unfortunate consequences of naïve voters placing regressives in office.

'Arizona Republican drops plan to ban the word 'homosexuality' from public schools' & other Fri midday news briefs

Arizona Republican introduces bill to ban the word “homosexuality” from public schools - Yeah, that ought to keep the kids from talking about being gay. NOT.

UPDATE - This just came in - Arizona senator drops plans to ban the word “homosexuality” from schools 

Parents Raise Voices as BOE Tackles Teaching LGBTQ History in School - We knew this would happen, but I love the way the article brings perspective to the issue.

Judge orders US to return illegally deported gay asylum seeker before he’s killed - I hope they can reach him in time. 

Tenn. clerks told not to marry gay couples in letter from anti-LGBTQ lawyer - The homophobes are trying so hard in Tennessee.

MAGA Church video 'celebrates' anti-LGBTQ evangelicals' abandonment of Jesus for Donald Trump

Since conservative (and anti-LGBTQ) evangelicals have decided to embrace Donald Trump as their "Lord and Savior," what could be a better way of showcasing their "new direction" other than this video by the Lincoln Project.

The video is brutal in how it highlights the schism conservative evangelicals have created in the American body of faith with their power-hungry support of Trump; a schism that the LGBTQ community would be clueless to not draw attention to and help along its way

'Trump's Legion of Homophobia takes 'class photo'' & other Thur midday news briefs

Donald Trump's 'Legion of Homophobia.' How many bigots do you recognize?

[Hypocritical Anti-LGBTQ Opportunists] For Trump - A huge who's who of homophobia.

GLAAD Media Awards: 'Booksmart,' 'Bombshell,' 'Rocketman' Among Nominees - Congratulations to all of my friends on their GLAAD Media Award nominations. As far as I'm concerned, you should all win.

LGBTQ heroes don’t need to be perfect (or even perfectly respectable) - Amen. 

Gay Trump supporter trying to gaslight the LGBTQ community into supporting our own destruction - I like my post from last night so much that I am encouraging more folks to read (and share) it.

Commentary: LGBTQ characters on TV used to keep family at arm’s length. Not anymore - It's about time, too.

Gay Trump supporter trying to gaslight the LGBTQ community into supporting our own destruction

A gay Trump supporter claims that Trump is working for supposed 'true equality.'

I've already had one negative run-in with gay conservative writer Chad Felix Greene after he falsely labeled my blog as "anti-Christian" and I am simply itching for another opportunity.

Lo and behold, the opportunity comes knocking after an inane piece he recently posted in the right-wing propaganda sheet The Federalist.  Greene's piece, No, White House Website Updates Don’t Mean Trump Is Trying To ‘Erase’ LGBT People, is a full-throttled defense of Trump's record when it comes to the LGBTQ community. It's not what he says that's the issue. It's what he omits. Here are some snippets:

Unfortunately, LGBT advocacy seems fixated on public validation over quiet integration and insists on a segregated platform in which to display leftist social and legal achievements. President Trump failing to openly acknowledge LGBT politics supposedly signaled the beginning of hostility now that he was in power, despite no evidence to support such an assertion. 

Trump has appointed five openly LGBT ambassadors and U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patrick Bumatay. Vice President Mike Pence met with the openly gay Irish prime minister and his partner and publicly praised openly gay Olympic athletes amid controversy over his perceived anti-LGBT views. Trump honored hero police officer and openly gay Crystal Griner with the Medal of Honor after her bravery in saving Rep. Steve Scalise and other Republican members of Congress during an attempted assassination. 

. . .If Trump were truly struggling to contain his hatred for gay and trans people, you could imagine he would have acted out in actual hostility toward them by now. LGBT media and advocacy certainly have given him plenty of reason to do so. 

One major distinction between President Barack Obama and Trump is that the latter does not seem to need the highly segmented approval of hundreds of grievance groups in order to feel he is doing a good job. For the right, this represents a more equal-opportunity leader who focuses on issues and not virtue signaling. For the left, it seems to indicate deep and intentional disregard for the well-being of groups they believe deserve special acknowledgement. 

As a gay person, I prefer the right’s view on this. If what Trump’s administration is doing is “erasing” LGBT people, then being erased must be the same thing as equality and assimilation — and that looks like progress to me.

Greene is extremely clueless and the only thing holding this piece together is how he dresses up his obliviousness as intelligence. He implies that Trump is doing more than "virtue signaling" to the LGBTQ community, but then provides examples which add up to nothing but tokenism.

'Hate group leader applauds Zambia for imprisoning gays' & other Wed midday news briefs

Family Research Council president Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins Applauds Zambia For Imprisoning Gays - A hate group leader acts accordingly.

LGBTQ Elders more likely to be socially isolated, suffer from dementia than straight peers - Homophobia owns this. We need to take our people back.

A surrogate blackmailed a gay couple for parental rights of their newborn twin daughters - Simply some evil sh!t on the part of the mother. 

Michigan LGBTQ bills have failed for decades — but this year could be different - Fingers crossed.

Right-wing evangelical leaders were already lying hypocrites before Donald Trump took the Oval Office

Gary Bauer, who allegedly undermine the fight against AIDS during the 80s, is just one of many conservative evangelical leaders eager for the power Trump gives them.

Unlike the rest of American society, I refuse to catch the vapors while watching right-wing evangelical leaders debase their "integrity" in support of Donald Trump. To me, they were always hypocritical bloodsucking bullies who saw Jesus as a commodity in their quest for political power to shape America into their definition of a bastardized version of  "The Promised Land."

And I say this as an LGBTQ,  a member of the community they spent years stigmatizing as the "dreaded other" before Trump opened the door of the Oval Office to their clutching claws.

Look at some the cast of characters in this group:

Gary Bauer who, when he worked in the Reagan Administration, deliberately kept Surgeon General C. Everett Koop from meeting with the president about the AIDS crisis because he felt it was "God's punishment."

James Dobson, who once claimed that gays have thousands of partners

Franklin Graham, who once praised Vladimir Putin for persecuting the Russian LGBTQ community.

And then there is Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - i.e. crumb snatcher extraordinaire who has used her famous uncle to designate herself as chief token black of the conservative right. That entails claiming that marriage equality is responsible for natural disasters or blaming the LGBTQ community in general for supposed "black genocide."