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marmar

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Sat Dec 1, 2012, 02:21 PM Dec 2012

Prominent fundamentalist: God gets sad when we don’t use the oil He gave us [View all]


from Grist:



Prominent fundamentalist: God gets sad when we don’t use the oil He gave us
By Philip Bump



[font size="1"]Bryan Fischer, ranting about something.[/font]


Bryan Fischer runs the American Family Association. He is … a piece of work. He spends most of his time bashing homosexuals, but is not afraid to dip a poison-soaked toe into the broader waters of far-right conservatism. Some tweets of his, to set context:

According to CDC, 90% of all malesever diagnosed w/ HIV/AIDS got it either through male on male sex or IV drug use.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 27, 2012

LA mandates condoms for gay porn for health reasons. Should mandate for all gay sex, since want to protect health of all.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 8, 2012

My game-day prediction: Romney, 51-48, 300+ electoral votes, looting.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 6, 2012

Rapidly decaying magnetic energy field around earth indicates maximum age of earth at 20,000 years. answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v7…

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) November 6, 2012


Charming. That last one, though, gets to the point of this story, why we’re bothering to write anything about him. Fischer is also a climate change denier. And on his radio show today (he has a radio show, apparently), he suggested that failing to use fossil fuels was an insult to God. .....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://grist.org/news/prominent-fundamentalist-god-gets-sad-when-we-dont-use-the-oil-he-gave-us/



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