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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 04:59 PM Jan 2015

Meet David Lane: The Anti-Gay, Christian-Nation Extremist Of The RNC

Last night, Rachel Maddow reported that the American Family Association has fired Bryan Fischer as its official spokesman, while letting Fischer keep his radio show on the organization’s radio network. The move apparently came as a result of growing controversy surrounding a trip to Israel for Republican National Committee delegates bankrolled by the AFA.

It didn’t look good for the RNC that the group paying the tab for the trip to Israel has a spokesman and radio host who believes that gay people are modern-day Nazis who are responsible for the Holocaust, demands Jewish conversion to Christianity (and wants to require conversion for Jewish and other non-Christian immigrants), and insists that non-Christians have no First Amendment rights: “Counterfeit religions, alternative religions to Christianity, have no First Amendment right to the free exercise of the religion.”

However, the RNC trip’s chief organizer, David Lane of the American Renewal Project, which has close ties to the AFA, is no less radical than Fischer … but his extreme views haven’t stopped Republicans from embracing Lane.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has appeared at Lane’s political gatherings and praised his radical anti-LGBT activism. In fact, potential Republican presidential candidates like Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry and Mike Pence have either appeared at Lane’s events, which typically take place in early primary states, or participated in election-themed advertisements for Lane’s group.

- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/meet-david-lane-anti-gay-christian-nation-extremist-rnc#sthash.PfJ9IEm4.dpuf

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Meet David Lane: The Anti-Gay, Christian-Nation Extremist Of The RNC (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2015 OP
And Rachel's report the last couple of nights have been great. longship Jan 2015 #1
"The" Anti-Gay, Christian Nation Extremist of the RNC? Padiddle Feb 2015 #2

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. And Rachel's report the last couple of nights have been great.
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 06:13 PM
Jan 2015

The GOP has long since been a theocratic Christian party. Nobody wants to admit it, but it is nevertheless true. All one has to do is listen to what these lunatics say.

 

Padiddle

(58 posts)
2. "The" Anti-Gay, Christian Nation Extremist of the RNC?
Sun Feb 1, 2015, 09:46 PM
Feb 2015

Sounds like he's just one of a million.

It baffles me that this guy claims to be so anti-Nazi but completely doesn't get that he's just as fascist and oppressive as they are! Does he not know that the Reich executed gays as well as Jews? Oh, but he doesn't like those either, and seems to think that Jews are gay...

Leave it to Prince Penis to associate with a whack job like this.

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