American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer said on Focal Point Monday that gays and lesbians could endanger the military and represent a risk to the country’s security because of mental health problems in the gay community.
Researchers have consistently linked prejudice and stigma against gays and lesbians to increased feelings of depression and anxiety, and Fischer skews such research to make it seem that gay people are intrinsically unstable.
Such claims are no surprise coming from Fischer, who has warned that the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was a “treasonous” act that would leave America “with a military comprised of nothing but sexual deviants.”
Fischer also said that gays “represent an increased risk to national security,” calling openly gay service in the military “foolish.”
While referencing the Bradley Manning case, Fischer said that “if you have compassion for people, you want homosexuals to get help,” and that gays should be prohibited from handling “sensitive national security information.”
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AFA, go to hell where you belong. It’s because of gays and lesbians in the military we managed to survive this long. Without them, we would’ve lost. So go fuck yourself a-holes.
wow. just wow.
OH PLEASE!!!! I Heard that line at my court marital..only it was that I was a security risk..that I could be blackmailed…….my comment to th court was this “To who? Everyone I know and love ALREADY KNOWS!!”
That is true /: I swear Im depressed everyday . and Im Gay
What a load of crap.
you have got to be kidding! Fischer the only one suffering from mental health issues is you…you sir are a dink!
Hatred of others is the greatest security risk to our species!!!
*NOT* the gays!!!
Any REAL Christian would tell you that! :)
sure mental problems, yeah you got em buddy!
O. M. G.! Seriously. Did I just read this. No wait. I have to refresh my screen cuz there is NO way I could’ve read what I just think I did.
didnt they just DADT a few months ago wth?
repeal*
Technically, Fischer IS a “REAL christian.” He merely follows what his handy dandy book of hatred, oppression and murder tells him. Anyone who says otherwise is not following the book which really just needs to be tossed into the nearest shredder.
O.M.G. It’s still there! Bryan Fischer – what hole did you just crawl out of! Look in the mirror if you want to see someone with mental health issues!
has any sane person ever asked this weirdo “HOW do gay people heighten security risk?” I mean, WTF!! HOW? What a f***in’ freak.
YOU NEED HELP!
….wow. Just stupid beyond words.
Still a stupid motherfucker.
Fuck off!
What this asshole fails to realize, is that it’s people like HIM that make us depressed! Yet we still want to defend this guys right to hate us.
I am so tired of all this, tired of everything, everyday this world makes me want to puke!
Let’s see if this clown gets caught in a gay sex scandal next year. Wasn’t George “Rentboy” Rekers a founder of the AFA?
WOW- can someone please **oo* this guy and shut him up? REALLY??? what genetic streak of intelligence left his sperm donation group? or, it must have been the ENTIRE streak of intelligence… his thought process is not even rational- and this is the ideal of the “American Family”…..?? lol….. that’s not even something found remotely appropriate in the bible… for someone as righteous, he might just burn in hell……
yeah, cuz there are no mental instabilities in the straight community! What is it with these people?
people like this ruin my view of Christianity. are people really this ignorant?
Every LGBT and LGBT Ally who walks with their head up, meets hate with love, lies with truth and does not stoop to such a level that Fischer chooses to fire from is a security risk. We are a security risk to anyone who banks on prejudice, bigotry and fear.
omg
Is he dumb?
well this is why i dont adhere to christianity… total ignorance
That bullshit was used in
Areospace.
It’s antigay peoples fault gays are depressed. That’s like blaming Jews for the holocaust.
Michael – they are, unfortunately.
ok. They don’t want us to be in the “straight military”?! Then, let the LGBTQ have our own…that way, some of the serious problems of this world and nation will finally be ‘straightened’ out!!! May God be there Judge!
Clearly hes the one with the mental health problem
Fischer, your a Moron, go away! dumb ass !
That’s because ignurt people put them through hell. Just to be themselves… But who do we believe it listen to ..??; the pastor child melestor… The church that teaches hate….. The church that thinks its big to have a interatial couple to attend… Or do we believe in our beliefs and how we believe in our Christian or any other religion that we are gonna love ourselves and others just the way you are… Yes understanding is a big part of if those of you that make people feel this way. Would spend time understanding people and their hearts and souls instead of waisting your time talking about the same ole mess that you know deep down your wrong in saying to begin with…
This is that same piss-poor logic that tries to marginalize capable women in government. Noted and moving on.
is “mental health problems” because we “think” before we follow? They’re really after dumbass str8 cannon fodder.
AFA also seems to forget about health problems in the straight community as well. If that is the grounds they are going to stick with, Hell my dad was straight as they come and he was also classified as Clinically insane. The AFA has bigotry involved now so their opinions can’t count for much anymore because they Represent the AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION so as gays we must not be AMERICAN . So I look at it as just another example of being homophobic. As humans we have always condemned the things that we did not understand, I just figured being this advanced society that we have now days that the hatred an bigotry would subside or they would just STFU…….
He (as well as the AFA) is crazy as a loon! Disgusting!
Then judging everyone you feel that’s popular to do at the time.. which the bible stickly speaks against and some how you think your gonna control the pearly gates for all others…. I wish I could question and answer these folks… A good friend and great guy has that as being my new favorite game … Good ole fashioned question and answer…
All if any mental health problems in the LGBT community are almost all caused by bigots like these!
1 in 110 of birth it the US is diagnosed with Autism are they going to blame us for that as well.
what branch did Bryan Fischer serve in? i (a gay man) was in the Navy…
Give me 8 minutes, at the very least, please, in a small room and I will personally define a ‘security risk’ to this backwards-old bastard. And I will savor each and every second of it.
And straight terrorists, rapists, murderers… ect don’t? Right….
If it wasnt for a gay man in the military we would all be speaking german, no jews would exist, and probably not many minorities. the guy that broke the nazi’s code was gay. his treatment by the british government was deplorable. he and the AFA can kiss my butt they have the freedom to spew their vile harted because of those who fought for our rights and freedoms. anyone who has served/serves has my respect i dont care who they sleep with.
Things that make you go hmmm
I’d love to shoot this piece of shit point blank between the eyes.
When does he think this is? The mc carthy era?! Hellooo its 2011!!!
He Prolly smokes to..
Just his guilty conscious talking from his addiction to butt sex!
Immo pray for him… Not sure if I will Neil to booda, or cross my chest , Neil at a bench or just throw water in his face… But Immo do one…
Ha. Don’t let gays handle “sensitive national security information”. Guess I should quit my job at the NSA, then.
Oh BARF.
What a crock! Get a clue, dude!
People like this make me laugh at how some people never come to terms with life.
Recent history seems to say that straight white christian men are much more of a security risk than are gays and lesbians.
@Susanna Sharp- Schwacke
I agree that this S.O.B. is nothing more then the ground he should be barried under but to say this nutjob is a “REAL CHRISTIAN” & the Bible we’ll call needs to be tossed well that’s going to far because you saying that makes you no more of a hater & less for Equality then this S.O.B.who doesen’t stand for Equality @all Equality means all walks of life are equal matter & putting all Christians in the same category w this man is a insult to people who believe in God & is openly gay…
One isn’t born a Christian it will fade into oblivion like any other fad eventually……. Oh what you don’t like me attacking religion….. Funny that hey!!
So Happy to know I – My Brothers and Sisters of the Rainbow are Lethal. hmmmmmmmmm- he probably leads a very pathetic life.
I kiss a man, and a soldier dies.
That’s pretty much what this is about, right?
This man is just ignorant to the point its obvious the asshole dosen’t get out much because really being LGBT dosen’t make a person any more of a risk then a st8 person. I can believe Idiots like this even get the coverage to present his drama on FB..
Why doesn’t this yahoo just shut the hell up? Hahaha this was so stupid, I can’t even take it seriously… Have mercy.
I guess he is saying all the gay & lesbian soldiers who have risk their life for him as well as me & you are a risk to?
Don’t forget that because of us there was a Vietnam, Korean War, Afghanistan and Kamakaze pilots as well. BITCH
Jools Stadler …yeah your right we’re not born a Christian but we all need to remember that we are born to have the right to believe in what we believe & to have another cast judgment upon us for that only shows they are no different then the haters they bitch about… that’s all I’m saying…
wow, i feel so dangerous! Im a security risk!
seriously?? how do these people get in..with their closed minds..
Ugh my god, so sick of everyone saying crap like this….just wish there was more peace on earth then bs!
epitome of ignorance… a representation of, as humans, our most wretched and despicable kind.
I just don’t understand what difference does one’s sexuality make in their capability to serve and protect our country?!
@ Marcus that was my point, live and let live.
You guys should take a deep breath. Hearing stuff like this leak out of the woodwork is actually a good sign. Do you know why old farts like this are up in arms, hollering about how ‘those fags’ are going to ruin the world? Because they know they’re a dying breed. They’re scared of us. They know we’re winning.
fucking fascist…..and nut….my God..we are in the end of 2011..this guy must live in Muslim country…maybe he would be more….happy…
Michael Fox wrote: “are people really this ignorant?”
Oh Yeah, Michael, they are…..at least those like Mr. Fischer, Newt Gingrich, Tony Perkins, Matt Barber, and just about each and every other like-minded card-carrying bigot in this nation who all seem to be SEVERELY lacking in common sense and, to a much greater and far more obvious degree, intelligence.
I swear to you, EVERY.SINGLE.TIME one of these biased simpletons open their mouths, I can very literally see their brains spilling out. They just plain and simply do not know how to be good and decent people.
Funny he should say that, since people like him are one of the main causes of mental health problems in the gay community. If he were constantly told that he’s filthy and sinful, he wouldn’t be in the best of moods either. Crap like this is what causes anxiety, depression and low self-esteem.
Wut
lmao
The only security risk is this ass hole is given the right of freedom of speech.
I love how this Moron, spews all this false crap and SMALL MINDED, ARROGANT, people buy into it. Fortunately for us, the majority of REAL AMERICANS, know he’s nothing more than a modern day Archie Bunker, just not as intelligent.
As far as I’m concerned all the people in the military are outstanding people and this idiot shouldn’t sound off about things he knows nothing about.
wasn’t it the same bigots screaming the same story over women in the military, blacks in the military, ……. hell anyone that was diverse to the assumed normality of society who wanted equality. Stop living in the past and evolve before things digress.
WHAT? Yeah cos I always see the feminine gay guys running around with M17′s. Please, the only thing you have to fear is them redecorating your ugly ass house- bigot!
i am not sure who this person is, but he obviously has a tenuous grasp on reality. homosexuals have “mental” problems, sir, because of people like you who have systematically been inculcating people like us with the notion that we are substandard human beings for centuries on end. so, some people who are susceptible to this kind of dogma will succumb to it, and do the things which you state all homosexuals do. what you are doing, in effect, is creating a class of people who will, because of the mental problems you have helped create, become recipients of health care which you object to society providing. you will further malign these people because they will not do what you command-work, support themselves and the economy and the war machine which have rejected them. but they are only acting in ways consistent with what you and countless others say.
The wingnuts are lucky the gay community doesn’t suffer from excessive mental health issues. Can you imagine them poking their shtick at a bunch of unbalanced mofos and emerging unscathed?
others will rise up and think about the verdict you have delivered on their lives and lash out against the collective ignorance that fuels it. we live, work, love, support ourselves and families, despite the lies told about us. we respect ourselves and the people who touch our lives. we acknowledge the inherent differences in the lives of people around us because it is the only way we know to grow, live, and learn. we do not pass judgement easily except upon those who judge us. some among us want to fight for the standards which created this country and which still exist in the minds of free men and women everywhere. what you and others like you have never done is provide concrete evidence as to why any of your assertions should be true. they appear to be true, only because you and your ilk wish them to be true with all of your hearts. so, you create a dependent class that you will have to carry on your collective backs by virtue of the lies they have believed, from the mouths of people who don’t know them. and you will continue to bemoan society’s largesse at supporting people who are defective. these are and continue to be problems you have created, not ones that exist for their own sakes. it is you who are the defective ones and you will burn for it.
The guy must be a closet case or something. What a dbag.
Just like every idiot is a threat to our security right? Because that sounds a whole lot more plausible then the whole “blame it on the gays” routine.
And the gay community actually does have a large rate of mental illness which is largely due to things like oppression, being closeted/semi-closeted and having a high instance of being victims of hate crimes. We also have higher levels of anxiety and substance abuse for the same reasons and more. We are not unstable people as a whole, just products of the hate and scapegoating that is constantly thrown our in our direction. But acting and responding like “unbalanced mofos” to their hatred and ignorance is only going to fuel their fire and help drive home their goals of making us out to be some sort of deviant from normal, healthy, diverse society.
I’m dangerous.
What a stupid asshole. There is a higher risk of mental health problems within the gay community BECAUSE of assholes like him, that’s the causality. There are so many evidences that being free to enroll without prejudice would lead to less mental health problems within the gays and lesbians serving the country yet this moron has shit in his eyes he can’t see the big elephant in the room.
Seriously? That’s not true.
Is he absolutely crazy? This nonsense should not even be published in any form.
I wonder if he’s ever heard of The Sacred Band…they were entirely homosexual and the most feared force in the Theban military.
Wooooow, hiding behind bad science. Good job.
I am not surprised, as people like this man are full of hatred and he needs someone to bully.
These Conservatives are small, frightened people who are afraid that their own faith is weak, so they look for a scapegoat.
Also, and I think this a huge part of it, these people want to come to power as Hitler did. Let’s not forget where the Bushes got their money, as well as many others not so well known. They were supporters of the Nazi regime.
These people, who are looking to cause more hatred are out to shred the Constitution, as Mike Huckabee has made clear, and to enact a Christian Taliban, with point of gun conversions.
Never think these people are harmless; they are not. They are crazy and if people allow the Conservatives to win, be ready for those private Halliburton prisons to be filled with dissidents and “undesirables”.
They want to talk about mental health when they have those kind of candidates running for President. Don’t you think these people are a little bit obsessed about people being gay? Their obsession is not healthy. Give it a rest already!!!!
I bet if you went to his home opened up a dresser drawer you’d find it full of battery operated dildo’s, that he likes to use on himself. The troll is old, homely and an idiot, just lay down and die already and quite taking up space.