The former pastor who gained notoriety by attacking Starbucks back in July recorded a video asking his followers to “punish” Planned Parenthood’s doctors.
On Sunday, Mike Huckabee was busy claiming no pro-life leader had ever even “suggested violence toward Planned Parenthood personnel,” Carly Fiorina was busy lying about abortion and berating those who blame her for contributing to a climate of hate against Planned Parenthood for employing “typical left-wing tactics,” and Ted Cruz was attempting to redirect blame away from himself for his part in ginning up so-called “pro-life” activists by repeating a right wing lie that the terror attack suspect was “a transgendered leftist activist.”
In short, vast numbers of conservatives are either lashing out or in hiding after Friday’s terror attack on Planned Parenthood that left three people dead and nine others injured.
And frankly, some are scared, because it’s becoming quite clear that the fraudulent Planned Parenthood videos that were produced by a group that has on its board of directors a long-time anti-abortion activist who thinks the murder of doctors who provide abortions should be justifiable homicide.Â
That man, by the way, endorsed Ted Cruz last week, and Cruz waved the endorsement in the air – or at least, touted it in a press release – for all to see.Â
Those videos, as many now know, were systematically released to the public in a concerted effort to keep them in the national media and nation discussion for as long as possible, and that plan was hatched in offices of Republican members of Congress.
The religious right, the right wing media, conservative bloggers, and even Fox News all bear some degree of culpability for pushing the vile and unscrupulous videos that have fueled an anti-Planned Parenthood culture of lies and hate for many months.
Among those on the far religious right who contributed to this culture of hate is none other than Christian evangelist and former pastor Joshua Feuerstein, the man who came to national fame most recently for recording an insane video that accused Starbucks of “hating Jesus” by removing winter icons, like snowflakes and ice skaters from its iconic red winter coffee cups.
Feuerstein’s attack on Starbucks was news for weeks, until many on the right finally realized it was ridiculous and moved on with their lives.
Sadly, Feuerstein this summer recorded another video, far more dark than his Starbucks’ red cup crusade.
In this short video, which he removed from his Facebook page but not before one enterprising YouTube user, So Fain, captured it and reposted it, and not before Michael Stone at Progressive Secular Humanist had a chance to report on it.
In Feuerstein’s vile anti-abortion video, he calls on his more than 1.8 million Facebook fans to “punish” Planned Parenthood doctors and even to make them “run and hide and be afraid for their life.”
The video, just 30-seconds, begins with Feuerstein saying, “Planned Parenthood has hunted down millions and millions of little innocent babies, stuck a knife into the uterus, cut them, pulled them out, crushed their skull with forceps, ripped their body apart, sold their tissue, and threw them bleeding into a trash bin.”
He concludes, “I say, tonight, we punish Planned Parenthood. I think it’s time that abortion doctors should have to run and hide and be afraid for their life.”
In “Evangelist Calls On Christians To Assassinate Abortion Providers,” Stone says the “video is important because it demonstrates a dangerous and radical strain of Christian extremism that enjoys considerable popularity, and is part of a much larger campaign waged by conservative Christians within the Republican party to demonize abortion providers and Planned Parenthood.”
If there had been any doubt that the rhetoric created and amplified by the religious right, Christian conservatives, and Republican elected officials has become so toxic that it is now both dangerous and capable of inciting violence, Friday’s terror attack along with this video leave zero room for debate or doubt.
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