The hate group that is the extremely anti-gay American Family Association is headed by the infamous Bryan Fischer, and Bryan Fisher says, “We have feminized the Medal of Honor.” I’d imagine that Medal of Honor winners all around the country might be up in arms if they heard him say this, but sadly, most of them are dead, and awarded the medal posthumously for risking “his or her life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States.” I guess Bryan Fischer thinks dying for one’s country is a “feminine” thing to do.
(Before we go any further, I think it’s disgusting that the American Family Association thinks being “feminine” is a bad thing, and uses it as a slur.)
Fischer writes, “when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?”
I don’t know about you, but I don’t know any families who are losing sleep over there being too few killings by America’s military. I think they’re losing sleep because they don’t have jobs.
“I would suggest our culture has become so feminized that we have become squeamish at the thought of the valor that is expressed in killing enemy soldiers through acts of bravery. We know instinctively that we should honor courage, but shy away from honoring courage if it results in the taking of life rather than in just the saving of life. So we find it safe to honor those who throw themselves on a grenade to save their buddies.”
Andrew Sullivan takes a few shots at Fischer.
Part I: Sullivan says that Fischer’s rant is “what happens when you work for the American Family Association for too long.”
Part II: A Sullivan reader points out, Fischer is dead wrong:
“I agree with everything you say about Bryan Fischer, but there is one thing you have left out: His premise is false. He alludes to a secondary source, and then builds his crass, immoral argument on his interpretation of an incidental comment there. He didn’t bother to look at the record to see if, in fact, “every Medal of Honor awarded during these two conflicts has been awarded for saving life. Not one has been awarded for inflicting casualties on the enemy. Not one.” Checking the facts would have ruined his rant; several Medals of Honor were awarded for actions that included strong offensive elements.”
Quick reminder about the AFA:
Upon the news that Elena Kagan might become a Supreme Court Justice, Fischer wrote,
“If we elevate an open homosexual to the Supreme Court, we will be elevating someone who freely admits that he (generic use) engages routinely in behavior that was still a felony in every state in the Union as recently as 1962 and a felony in the other 49 states until 1972.
Sodomy is still a felony in the criminal code of about a dozen states. The Lawrence decision of 2003, an egregious act of judicial activism, prohibited enforcement of these laws, but the fact remains that 25% of the states in the Union still regard it as criminal behavior.
We simply should not elevate to the highest court in the land people who are known for engaging in sexually abnormal behavior which would technically make them felons in a quarter of the states over which they will have jurisdiction.â€
Fischer has called for the impeachment of Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker.
Bryan Fischer, you are an evil man, devoid of humanity. Shame on you.