Bryan Fischer today repeated his claim to CNN anchor Carol Costello that gays are Nazis in a discussion about the eleven-year old annual “Mix It Up Day,” an opportunity to teach tolerance to children in schools. Fischer attacked gays, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and Mix It Up Day, interrupting Costello several times and lying throughout the interview. Costello finally did what every LGBTQ person, equality ally, and decent human being in America has been waiting for the main stream media to do to Bryan Fischer and other hate groups members: She said, “that’s just not true,” and ended the interview.
Mix It Up Day “is a thinly-veiled attempt to push the normalization of homosexual behavior in public schools and to eventually punish students who express a Judeo-Christian view of homosexuality,” Fischer claimed. This morning on Twitter Fischer called the Southern Poverty Law Center a “pro-bullying hate group.”
“What parents need to understand, this is about pressuring public schools and students in public schools to accept homosexuality as a normal, healthy alternative to heterosexuality,” Fischer told Costello.
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“You know, it’s interesting to me they’re doing this on October 30, the day before Halloween, and what this program is, it’s like poisoned Halloween candy. Somebody takes a candy bar, injects it with cyanide, the label looks fine, it looks innocuous, it looks fine, it’s not until you internalize it that you realize how toxic it is. And we want parents to be aware that any program that any program that comes from the Southern Poverty Law Center is going to be toxic to their students’ moral health.”
Fischer claimed the Southern Poverty Law Center is about bullying, silencing, and intimidating Christian students.
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Costello read a statement Fischer made about gays being Nazis — which Fischer has said several times, and which he not only did not disavow or claim he did not say it, he defended it and added to it. Here’s the statement Costello read back to Fischer that he stated in 2010:
“Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could not get straight soldiers to be savage and brutal and vicious enough to carry out his orders, but that homosexual solders basically had no limits and the savagery and brutality they were willing to inflict on whomever Hitler sent them after. So he surrounded himself, virtually all of the Stormtroopers, the Brownshirts, were male homosexuals.”
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Fischer defended his claim and told Costello to read The Hidden Hitler by Lothar Machtan.
Costello called Fischer’s comments hate speech.
Ultimately, Costello said, “That’s just not true. I’m going to end this interview now because that’s just not true.”
CNN needs to give Costello an award.
Journalists should take note: there aren’t always two valid and true sides to every story, and if a guest lies, it’s your job to call them out on it, and state the truth.
Learn more about Mix It Up Day at Tolerance.org.
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Hat tip: Equality Matters and Towleroad
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