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Dave Daubenmire #fundie rightwingwatch.org

On today’s episode of the “Pass The Salt Live” webcast, Religious Right activist “Coach” Dave Daubenmire said that the government should stop spending money on the study of the “fake science” of evolution and instead give that money to scientists who will work to prove the existence of God.

“Evolution is fake science, it is not true,” Daubenmire said. “Do you know how much government money goes into science research? If you want to get a government grant, you have to make sure that the research that you do is going to support the positions of the government.”

“I would like to see the government do this,” he continued, “why doesn’t the government fund research into whether or not there is really a God? Wouldn’t that be good? Let’s dump a lot of money—rather than dumping all this [money into research] proving there isn’t a God, let’s fund some scientists to do some research to see if there is a God.”

Brigitte Gabriel #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Brigitte Gabriel, an anti-Islam activist, baselessly claimed today that “over 90 percent of mosques in America” are funded by the Saudi Arabian government in order to teach radical ideology aimed at overturning the United States government.

Speaking with “Breitbart News Daily” this morning, Gabriel agreed with guest host Raheem Kassam’s suggestion that the United States should create a searchable database of information about foreign-funded religious institutions, and claimed that nearly all U.S. mosques are funded by Saudi Arabia to radicalize Muslims against America.

“I think it must be clear where a lot, if not every single foreign-funded religious institution gets its money from in this country,” Kassam said. “I think there has to be an absolutely crystal-clear searchable database so we can see where these Saudis are funding these radical mosques all across the United States.”

“You think they’re not doing it?” Kassam said. “It is happening here too.”

Gabriel added, “To the tune of millions, it’s happening here. Mosques in America are funded by the government of Saudi Arabia. We know that over 90 percent of mosques in America are preaching radical Islamic ideology against our democracy and the overturn of our government, all paid for and funded by the Saudis.”

Ann Coulter #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Right-wing provocateur Ann Coulter said yesterday that college students shouldn’t be allowed to vote because they are brainwashed and the minimum age for voting should be 30 years old.

On yesterday’s episode of the “Howie Carr Show,” Coulter vented about The Washington Post’s debunk of claims that massive voter fraud is taking place in New Hampshire; the Post found that many of the alleged fraud cases were actually out-of-state college students from casting legal ballots in New Hampshire.

Coulter first explained to Carr that she didn’t think students should be voting in states where they attend college if they don’t establish permanent residency in that state, but then said that it would be “outrageous” for a college student to change her residency to her college town.

Coulter then reached the conclusion that “college kids shouldn’t be voting” at all.

“It’s just to get the results of 13 years of Chinese-style brainwashing,” Coulter said. “I don’t think that people should be able to vote until they’re 30.”

Sandy Rios and Frank Gaffney #fundie rightwingwatch.org

American Family Radio host Sandy Rios told listeners today that the American Right are unfairly compared to Nazis, because while they are similar to Nazis in the fact that they love their country, they differ in the fact that they don’t try to use their nationalism to commit mass murder.

On this morning’s episode of Rios’ radio show, Center for Security Policy president and anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney spoke with Rios about the Southern Poverty Law Center classifying him as a hate group leader and the current coordinated right-wing campaign against the SPLC. Rios echoed Gaffney’s criticism of the group and attempted to explain why she believes that members of the American Right are wrongly likened to Nazis.

“The whole attribution of being on the Right to being Nazis was people who were loyal to country, and of course Hitler equated that to superiority and the right to kill other people,” Rios said. “When we, as American Right, we love our country too but not because we think we have the right to kill other people or we’re superior. We export goodness. We export help to others. It’s a very different view of your country.”

Earlier in the interview, Gaffney accused “people like George Soros” of enabling a “red-green axis,” a theory that alleges that “red” leftists are partnering with the “green” Islamists in order to, as one paper published at Gaffney’s think tank states, “erase America.”

A partnership has formed between “people on the hard left, among them prominently homosexuals, feminists, Jews, apostates, other minorities,” Gaffney said, “and Islmaists, who hate all of those people.”

“The thing that they seem to have in common is they hate America more and they’re willing to work together to try to transform it,” Gaffney said. “I fear that’s what we’re facing right now.”

David Barton #racist rightwingwatch.org

During an interview with Religious Right radio host E.W. Jackson yesterday, Republican political operative and right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton reiterated his belief that the white people who “tied their own hands” by ending slavery in America don’t get enough credit for doing so.

“There is no other nation in the world where whites fought whites to free blacks and killed over half a million whites to free blacks,” Barton said. “That’s a lot of people fighting slavery.”

“You’ve also got the situation where that the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, they’re voted for—they’re all civil rights amendments, but guess what? The only guys that could vote back then were white guys,” he added. “You’ve got two-thirds of the whites in Congress and the majority of the whites in three-fourths of the states that said, ‘You know what? We white guys want to tie our hands and make sure that blacks have the same rights that we do.’ It’s whites that were doing that. You never hear anything about that.”

“You hear that whites are all racist,” Barton complained. “No, no, no. You’ve got all these whites that fought and gave their lives so that blacks would not be slaves. You have all these whites who tied their own hands politically to make sure we had equal rights in the Constitution. So there are so many good stories we just don’t get.”

Liz Crokin #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Right-wing columnist, commentator and conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin is fully committed to the idea that there is a massive global satanic pedophile ring run by high-ranking government officials, powerful business executives and celebrities that regularly engage in the ritual sexual abuse and murder of children. Last month, she shared those beliefs with “anointed speaker” Meri Crouley on her “Now Is The Time” program, where Crokin speculated that Sen. Ben Sasse’s opposition to President Trump is rooted in the fact that Sasse may have once been responsible for procuring underage boys for disgraced former House speaker Dennis Hastert.

Crokin encouraged viewers to “look very closely at the people who are screaming the loudest, complaining about President Trump” because “every single one of those people, you’ll find—because I’ve researched all these scumbags—you will find that all of these people have ties to sex trafficking rings, ties to pedophilia, ties to pedophiles.”

“For example, Sen. Ben Sasse from Nebraska” she said. “We know that there was a huge cover-up with the trafficking of young boys to politicians to Omaha, Nebraska. He’s one of the Republicans that has been screaming the loudest against President Trump. Well, he used to work for Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, okay? And there are people who claim that his job working for Dennis Hastert was to help lure young, underage boys for Dennis Hastert, who went to jail for raping boys.”

Alex Jones and Mike Cernovich #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Infowars radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed yesterday that artificial intelligence is “warring humans against each other” with discussions about race and culture, in addition to “bringing in foreign stimuli like the Islamists.”

During yesterday’s broadcast of “The Alex Jones Show,” right-wing internet personality and Infowars guest host Mike Cernovich joined Jones to discuss recent reports that tech giant Elon Musk fears the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

“You notice the computer is already warring humans against each other with the race narrative, the culture narrative, and then bringing in foreign stimuli like the Islamists, which we have to fight,” Jones said, “because it wants to take us over like the AI and it brings in that artificial stimuli to then just super-charge it.”

Cernovich agreed, adding that “the next evolution, though, is going to be little quantum AI bots and they could just send them in to a part of your brain where you don’t even know.”

“Eventually you’ll walk in and there’ll be microscopic quantum bots that go into your own brain,” Cernovich continued.

Bryan Fischer #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Bryan Fischer used his American Family Radio program on Friday to reissue his demand that the rainbow flag be removed from public places on the grounds that it is offensive and divisive.

Reacting to reports that some schools in North Carolina have begun implementing dress codes that include bans on representations of the Confederate flag, Fischer said the same policy should apply to rainbow flags.

“If we are going to ban the Confederate flag because it is divisive, how about we ban the LGBT flag at school?” he said. “If we are going to ban the Confederate flag at school because it creates division, because it arouses division, because it is offensive to people, because it so violates their most deeply held values about human sexuality, I propose that everywhere—everywhere—where the Confederate flag is banned, that we propose that along with it, at the same time, that the LGBT rainbow flag be banned at exactly the same time for exactly the same reasons.”

“It is offensive, it is contrary to our most deeply held values, it divides people, it does not bring them together,” Fischer asserted. “It’s time to have the LGBT flag banned right alongside the Confederate flag. If we’re going to ban one, I submit we need to ban the other.”

Steve King #racist rightwingwatch.org

Rep. Steve King, the Iowa Republican who famously said that most DREAM Act recipients have “calves the size of cantaloupes” from running drugs across the border and then led the House GOP’s efforts to reel back President Obama’s DACA program, said this morning that President Trump’s decision to end DACA will lead to DREAMers who have been deported creating a Peace Corps-like force that will teach their home countries “how a civilized people interact with each other.”

In an interview on “Breitbart News Radio” today, shortly before Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Trump administration would be rescinding the DACA program that provides deportation relief to some undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, King discussed a tweet that he had sent this morning stating that deported DACA recipients “will make great ‘Peace Corp’ volunteers in home countries,” an idea that he also discussed in an op-ed in March.

King argued that DREAMers who have been deported to their home countries will make a large, involuntary Peace Corps like force that could create the “best economic and cultural development, civilizational development that, say, Mexico could ever experience”:

"I’m making this point that if we shut off the DACA program, and there are 800,000 of them in the United States today, they would deploy—and I use that word that way—back to their home territories, most likely. And they would go back there with a U.S. taxpayer-funded education, many of them the college education, they will have top-notch English skills, they would understand how a free-enterprise economy works, how a generally corrupt-free society, first world works. They would have seen the transportation system we have, the educational system, the research and development systems that we have, how a civilized people interact with each other. All of that would go with them back to their home countries, and wouldn’t that be the best economic and cultural development, civilizational development that, say, Mexico could ever experience?

If these are their best and brightest—some of them are—just give them to these people that advertise DACA and what if their words are right? Send them back home again, it will have far more impact than you’ll get out of Peace Corps volunteers."

Later in the interview, King argued that legal immigration is a “natural filtration system” that has already brought the best people from other countries to the U.S. He also returned to his infamous “cantaloupe calves” remark, saying that “most of these guys that are carrying these packs [across the border] that range from 65 pounds up to 90 pounds or so, most of these guys that are carrying this, they’re younger than 18 years old” and may lie to get DACA status.

Janet Mefferd #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Christian radio host Janet Mefferd lamented the fact that a California state bill aimed at criminalizing discrimination against LGBTQ seniors living in long-term living facilities did not include a religious exemption for Christians, who “are not to bear false witness” by using a transgender person’s preferred pronouns.

On yesterday’s episode of Janet Mefferd Live, Mefferd discussed an article published by The Daily Signal that claimed that the California bill violated the First Amendment rights of doctors and staff working with aging LGBTQ patients. Mefferd also claimed that the bill was offensive to Christians.

“When you consider that we are not to bear false witness as Christians, we cannot call people by the opposite pronoun that they really are,” Mefferd said. “We can’t. It’s lying. It’s engaging in a fiction that is dishonest, and the government cannot compel you to lie.”

“The fact that they will make no religious exemptions shows the fury with which they view us,” Mefferd continued. “And that’s really not an overstatement, by the way.”

Mark Taylor #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Last week, “firefighter prophet” and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor appeared on Sheila Zilinsky’s radio program, where he warned that the Freemasons and the Illuminati are using a Satanic frequency to change people’s DNA in order to make them oppose President Trump.

“I believe what happened on November 8 is the enemy has literally sent out a frequency,” Taylor said, “and it agitated and took control, basically, of those who have their DNA turned over to the enemy. That’s what’s happening. The Illuminati, the Freemasons, all these people, their main goal is to change the DNA of man and they’re doing it through these frequencies.”

Taylor claimed that he is getting “bombarded with emails” from Christians who are being isolated by their friends and families because of their support for Trump and that is “because their DNA is being controlled by the enemy.”

Taylor said that the media is broadcasting its audio at 440 Hz, which has been found to “damage your body organs” and “also changes your DNA, which is the goal of the Freemasons, the Illuminati; they want you part of that Illuminati bloodline.”

Mat Staver #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Mat Staver, the head of the anti-LGBTQ legal group Liberty Counsel, returned to his favorite analogy last week, saying that the Southern Poverty Law Center’s labeling of his group as an anti-gay hate group is part of a persecution of Christians in America reminiscent of the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany, and linked the removal of Confederate monuments throughout the country to a larger “civil war against our values” happening in the U.S.

Several years ago, the SPLC started adding anti-gay groups like Liberty Counsel to its lists of hate groups, noting that its decision to label these groups as hate groups was generally “based on their propagation of known falsehoods” about LGBTQ people and specifying that “[v]iewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups.” However, this has not stopped many of the anti-LGBTQ groups whom the SPLC has listed from claiming that they are merely on the list because of an opposition to marriage equality.

In an interview on VCY America’s “Crosstalk” program on August 22, Staver said that SPLC knows that these anti-LGBTQ groups “are not violent organizations, they know that they are Christian organizations, and they know that they oppose any kind of hatred or violence. They just don’t agree with us on the issue of marriage.” (SPLC has never claimed that Liberty Counsel or its anti-LGBTQ allies are “violent organizations.”)

When the host of the program, Jim Schneider, asked how far the nation would let this sort of thing go, Staver issued a dire warning.

“I think that’s a question that everyone listening here needs to answer,” he said, “I think we’ve crossed the line and we can’t let this go any further. We’ve got to push back, it cannot happen like this. You know, if you go back into the 1930s, what ultimately happened back then with the Jews—and history, you know, there’s other histories you can point to—but they began to ultimately ban Jews from public employment, then ban Jews from their private employment, then put a Star of David on their ID and a Star of David on their passport, restrict their travel, restrict their income opportunity, and eventually you know what happened, we had to fight a World War II over that issue.”

(Speaking of travel restrictions, Staver went on the radio to defend President Trump’s travel ban for residents of several Muslim-majority nations earlier this year.)

Later in the interview, Staver lamented the “coarsening of discourse and a lack of morals and integrity” in American political debates, which he chalked up to “the erosion of our Judeo-Christian values” and what he claimed is intolerance of dissent.

“That is so much different than anything we’ve ever had before,” he said, “and continuing on this way, I think it’s almost, it’s like a civil war against our values, it’s a war against the very essence of who we are.”

He continued: “And there’s a number, like Antifa, that’s an anarchist group, they call themselves anarchists. I mean, an anarchist is somebody who wants to create anarchy, this is to just to completely destroy all the institutions. And you see this happening with the monuments. You know, I understand the concern people have against the Confederate monuments, I get all that, I understand that, I have a lot of people, a lot of friends that are affected by that. On the other hand, I have a lot of friends who say, ‘Look, this is part of our history.’”

He added that “if we want to start taking down our history, our monuments, because certain people were not at the same level that we want them to be today” the only monuments that would remain would be those of Jesus Christ.

Kevin Swanson #fundie rightwingwatch.org

On his radio show last week, right-wing pastor Kevin Swanson argued that the annual Burning Man festival is trying to bring back human sacrifice, but has been unable to do so only “because of the influence of Christ” on our legislators who recognize that the practice is prohibited by Old Testament law.

“The only way that we can defend a law, a civil law, against the worship of false gods by way of human sacrifice or animal sacrifice is by applying Old Testament law,” Swanson said. “We don’t serve our foreign gods by human sacrifice or animal sacrifice simply because the word of God doesn’t allow for it and, as Christians, as a Christian worldview, as a Christian legislator, or as a Christian governor, I could not allow it in any given city or state because the Christian worldview only allows for a single sacrifice, and that’s already been accomplished.”

Swanson said that Burning Man is all about “radical inclusion,” which he insisted is just another name for “radical polytheism [and] radical human sacrifice. This is what they’re headed for. They want to bring human sacrifice back.”

Alex Jones #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Conspiracy theorist radio host Alex Jones told viewers that globalist forces are using “unwashed masses” of liberals to enact a mass genocide of his followers in order to advance a nefarious globalist agenda.

In a YouTube video posted yesterday, Jones told viewers that because he and his followers are resistant to a globalist agenda to systematically kill off the world population, a conspiracy is underway to use “giant unwashed masses” to execute them.

“Because we won’t euthanize them and because we won’t kill them, the eugenicists are using them and preparing them as lemming armies to run over us,” Jones said. “And they want to genocide us in an act of coming of age.”

Jones claimed that his audience’s “Christian ethos to not annihilate” the public is “being used by the very eugenicists” executing the conspiracy. He went on to claim that his off-the-record “globalist” sources had asked him to join in on their “orderly extermination of these people,” but he refused.

Jones claimed the “vicious, sociopathic, psychopathic, technocracy globalists and psych warfare experts” are using Democrats to execute their plan. These Democrats, he said, are vulnerable because they are “completely lost. They are completely freaked out and they are just threatened by culture in general and they want to bully full control of it.”

Matt Bevin #fundie rightwingwatch.org

In a radio interview on Tuesday, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin linked the recent violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the removal of Bible study from public schools, saying that the removal of “things that are biblically taught from society” is correlated with “the kind of mayhem” we saw in Charlottesville.

Bevin spoke on Tuesday with West Virginia radio host Tom Roten about the Charlottesville violence and efforts to remove Confederate monuments from public lands, which Bevin said was a “sanitization of history” that he “absolutely” disagrees with.

Bevin said that removing these monuments sets “a dangerous precedent” that we’re “not allowed to talk about certain elements of our history” and amounts to “revisionist history.”

He then appeared to allude to efforts to remove statues of Roger Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, as part of a slippery slope set by removing Confederate memorials. (Although Bevin did not name names, a statue of Taney was recently removed in Annapolis, Maryland.)

“At what point—If somebody happened to have been a judge and something was erected in their honor but they happened to have one ruling one time that somebody’s offended by, is that worthy of them being removed from pretending they ever existed?” he asked.

Later in the interview, Roten asked Bevin about a “Bible literacy” bill he signed in June that encourages public schools to offer nominally secular Bible courses.

Bevin linked the removal of religious education in public schools to the efforts to take down Confederate monuments, saying that taking the Bible out of schools is also a “dangerous” attempt to “scrub history” because “when you go back a couple of hundred years, in most instances the only textbooks that were in our public schools were the Bible .”

“And it’s interesting,” he added, referring to the discussion of Charlottesville, “the more we’ve removed any sense of spiritual obligation or moral higher authority or absolute right and wrong, the more we’ve removed things that are biblically taught from society, the more we’ve seen the kind of mayhem that we were just discussing.”

Dinesh D'Souza #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza compared left-wing protestors who destroyed a Confederate statue in North Carolina to the terrorist organization ISIS and violent fascist regimes.

D’Souza appeared on the August 15 episode of Fox News Radio’s “Todd Starnes Show” to continue blaming the left for violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a white supremacist alt-right demonstrator killed one person and injured more than a dozen others after speeding his vehicle into a group of counter-protestors.

Before ending the interview, Starnes turned the discussion to “anti-fascist” protesters in North Carolina who forcefully toppled a bronze statue that memorialized Confederate soldiers. Starnes asked D’Souza if Americans should “be concerned about this whitewashing of history,” to which D’Souza responded by comparing the protestors to ISIS and other fascist groups.

“Just think about it. When is the last time somebody did this?,” D’Souza said. “The last time somebody did this is when ISIS was sandblasting and blowing up statues.”

D’Souza continued, “This whole idea that you want to erase history that you don’t like—this is a kind of behavior that is characteristic of a despotic mindset. The fascists did the same thing.”

Liberals, D’Souza claimed, are comparable to “black shirts” in Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italian regime and “brown shirts” in Nazi Germany. “The fascist mindset is revealing itself fully on the left,” D’Souza said.

D’Souza’s comparison is yet another installment of the pro-Trump right’s attempts to blame the violence in Charlottesville on the left. The conservative author has also capitalized on the violence in Charlottesville to promote his new book, which promises to expose “the Nazi roots of the American Left.”

Dave Daubenmire #racist rightwingwatch.org

Religious Right activist “Coach” Dave Daubenmire spent a good portion of his “Pass The Salt Live” webcast this morning discussing the violence that occurred surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, which he claimed was staged in order to provoke a civil war.

Daubenmire repeatedly described the participants in the “Unite The Right” rally as “patriots” who are simply trying to defend Western civilization and asserted that opposition to their march came from “Christ-haters.”

“Please tell me you’re smart enough to understand this, that those were staged riots,” Daubenmire said. “Can I tell you why? Because somebody wants to stir up a mess — They are trying to drive us to civil war.”

Daubenmire insisted that the rally in Charlottesville was hijacked by right-wing and left-wing activists who had been paid to disrupt the event and “make this look like racism is out of control in America.”

“The average patriot couldn’t care less about skin color,” Daubenmire asserted, saying that those who participated in the rally were merely outraged that their heritage is being destroyed as Confederate monuments are taken down all over the country.

“What if we were to go into every town in America and tear down the signs that say Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway?” he wondered. “What would happen if we demanded that Martin Luther King Jr. signs be pulled down and those streets’ names be changed? What would we expect? Well, we’d expect the brainwashed black masses to rise up.”

“When a white guy stands up, it’s racism,” Daubenmire said. “Do you see what they’re doing to us? Does anybody see it? Haven’t I warned you that this is a battle for Western civilization? And at the heart, at the root of Western civilization stands Jesus Christ. These are Christ-haters, these are God-haters.”

Daubenmire fumed that the churches in Charlottesville are not “raising hell” over the fact that the “patriots” who marched in their town were not adequately protected by the police and had their First Amendment rights violated, insisting that the marchers were Christians who love Jesus just as much as anyone else.

Republican Party #fundie rightwingwatch.org

A chilling new poll conducted by scholars Ariel Malka and Yphtach Lelkes, which they write about in the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog today, finds that not only do nearly half of Republicans falsely believe that President Trump won the popular vote in 2016 and that nearly 70 percent believe that “millions of illegal immigrants voted” in the election, but that more than half would support postponing the 2020 presidential election “until the country can make sure that only eligible American citizens can vote” if Trump were to propose it.

Malka and Lelkes caution that this whole situation is hypothetical and that people’s views might be different if faced with the situation in reality. But they write that their findings, at a minimum “show that a substantial number of Republicans are amenable to violations of democratic norms that are more flagrant than what is typically proposed (or studied).”

It’s worth remembering that one of the many conspiracy theories that the right-wing media propagated about President Obama was that he would invent some kind of crisis in order to justify staying in office for a second term, or even indefinitely.

WorldNetDaily, the website that was the chief driver of the racist “birther” myth, also had a sideline in stories about ways that Obama might manage to stay in office beyond his second term. One WND story speculated that Obama “planned” riots in Baltimore as a step toward instituting martial law, forming a “national police force” and postponing the 2016 elections. Another warned that Obama might use the Ebola virus to create chaos in the country, declare martial law, and cancel the election. WND’s editor, Joseph Farah, repeatedly warned that Obama might find a way to stay in office whether Trump or Hillary Clinton won the election.

When WND asked Ben Carson, then considering his own run for president,“Who would stop Obama from remaining in office past his second term?,” Carson played along.

Alan Keyes, who was Obama’s Republican opponent in the 2004 Illinois Senate race, warned that Obama might use a nuclear war as a pretext to stay in office. Televangelist Jim Bakker and radio hosts Michael Savage, Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh also expressed their concerns about a third Obama term. Paid email blasts went out to the subscribers of several conservative websites warning of some unspecified event that “could propel Obama to a near-unprecedented third term.” In early 2015, a spokesman for the Family Research Council assured worried callers to the group’s radio program that there was “a whole host of people lined up ready to help make sure” that Obama would leave office in 2017, adding that a third Obama term was “a concern” of his as well.

The militia group Oath Keepers repeatedly warned of efforts to cancel the 2016 election if attempts to elect Clinton by nefarious means started to fail.

How times have changed.

Kevin Swanson and Bill Jack #fundie rightwingwatch.org

On his radio program today, extremist anti-LGBTQ pastor Kevin Swanson and his co-host Bill Jack declared that “sexualized public schools that violate God’s law with high levels of flagrancy” should be burned to the ground.

Swanson and Jack were outraged by the fact that Washington state public schools teach students about gender identity issues, with Swanson at one point connecting this issue to a rape allegation against an employee at the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.

“Rape is also against God’s law and I guess it must be against state law; I’m not getting why, though,” Swanson said. “Why in the world is a sexual crime against the law in the state of Washington if the other forms of crimes are not against the law in the state of Washington? See, this is confusing to me.”

After Swanson fumed that “the worst possible abominations are accepted in the state of Washington” and that the public schools are “whorehouses,” Jack declared that “we need to burn ’em down.”

Swanson and Jack agreed that if parents from the 1950s saw what was happening in the schools today, “they would want to burn them down.”

“They would burn them down,” Jack said. “They would tear the bricks out of the walls, they would use the bricks to stone the apostates.”

Lance Wallnau #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau posted a video on his Facebook page last night in which he blamed liberals for the death of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.

Railing against reports that Fox News host Eric Bolling has been suspended amid allegations that he had sent lewd photos to several female colleagues, Wallnau declared, “I can only take some much before I have a meltdown right there on the air.”

“I am so flipping mad!” Wallnau bellowed. “First, they took down Roger Ailes, the liberals killed him. The devil killed Roger Ailes because they disgraced him with sexual harassment allegations.”

Wallnau said that while “there is not one sexual practice [that secularists are] not advocating for and trying to make a civil right out of,” they hypocritically targeted “poor little Roger Ailes” for destruction simply because he allegedly sexually harassed multiple women at his network.

Wallnau blamed liberals for Ailes’ death, which occurred after he injured his head in a fall shortly after he was ousted from Fox.

“I’m convinced he fell down partially because of stress and the spiritual warfare,” Wallnau said. “Bang, bashes his head, hemorrhages and bleeds, 77 years old, dies of an accident in his own house. But, I’ll tell you, it was liberals who killed him, not the floor; it’s spirits and curses and demons.”

Jesse Lee Peterson #sexist rightwingwatch.org

On Saturday’s edition of “The Hagmann Report,” Jesse Lee Peterson blamed today’s “devastation in the black communities” on weak men who “allowed their women” to work outside of the home.

While Peterson said he didn’t know if the End Times were here, he warned that “devastation will come up on the earth if men don’t turn back to God so that God can work through them to defeat evil. I think that as generations come, things will get worse for each generation. It will become hell on Earth.”

“I look at what has happened to black people,” Peterson said. “When I was growing up, because men were strong and they loved what was right, you didn’t have this type of devastation in the black communities around the country because men protected their families and their communities from evil.

“You mentioned how the women’s movement encouraged women to go out and work, but if men were strong, they would not have allowed their women to go out and work and the women would not have wanted to go; but the men were not strong enough to protect them from the evil that was coming from the women’s movement, and so it’s our job to do that as Christ has made a way for us.”

Paul Weber #fundie #homophobia rightwingwatch.org

Jayson was about eight years old when it started. It’s a real-life nightmare that wounds deeply and causes every mom and dad to shudder.

Over seven years, Jayson was sexually abused by several people. One of them was a scout leader — someone he should have been able to trust.

For Jayson, these events were not only traumatic, but they began a long struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions. Sadly, he’s hardly alone in this experience. Childhood sexual abuse is common for those who struggle with homosexual feelings, temptations, orientation and identity.

The good news is that Jayson found help that reversed the course of his life. It came in the form of professional counseling that — over a period of years — transformed his life and realigned his sexual identity with his faith. In fact, it was such a positive influence for Jayson that he’s now providing pastoral coaching to those who are dealing with similar struggles and their parents. God does work all things together for good (Rom. 8:28)!

But incredibly, there’s a movement under way in our nation to ban young people from receiving the same professional counseling that turned Jayson’s life around. State by state, “gay-rights” activists are pushing bills which mandate that counseling on sexual orientation be a one-way street — toward homosexuality.

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If this dangerous scheme isn’t already the law in your state, an effort to pass it is coming soon. That’s why your Family Policy Alliance is gearing up in states across the nation to prevent this assault and to push back on states where it currently exists.

While the brazenness of this push is surprising, the energy behind it is not. After all, the homosexual movement has long had as its goals: tolerance, then forced acceptance and, ultimately, punishment to those who won’t embrace their agenda. These bans on therapy for minors are an attempt to force acceptance of homosexuality right into our own homes.

Dave Daubenmire #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Religious Right activist “Coach” Daubenmire declared on his “Pass The Salt Live” webcast this morning that Christians who pay their taxes are engaging in sin.

Daubenmire said that Christians “better ask the Lord, ‘Do you want us to give our money to kill babies? Is that what you want us to do, Lord? Advance homosexuality and perversion in our schools? Lord, do you want me to take some of that hard-earned money that you blessed me with and you want me to give it to continue that process?”

“I’ll say this without question,” he continued, “the paying of government taxes, I believe, is sin. I’m sorry, I believe it’s sin. And so my struggle is with that premeditated sin every day because I know, for me to give one penny to Planned Parenthood is a sin. If I know what they’re doing with it, it’s a sin. For me to have to pay my property taxes—get your local property tax bill and look at how much of your local property tax goes to fund your schools and ask yourself, “Why am I funding that filth?'”

Daubenmire said that every Christian will one day have to stand before God and answer this question; and on that day, they will have to beg for His grace because there is no justification for paying taxes to a wicked government such as ours.

Gary Dull #fundie rightwingwatch.org

On Monday’s “Stand In The Gap” radio program, Gary Dull of the Pennsylvania Pastors Network speculated that President Trump could be under threat from LGBTQ people, claiming that this would not be surprising because the “philosophy of the ‘LBGT’ group comes right out of the pit of hell.”

Dull’s comments were in response to the allegations made by pastor Rodney Howard-Browne, who led a recent Oval Office prayer session, that there is a secret plan to attack President Trump and remove him from office. Howard-Browne has not specified who poses such a threat to Trump’s life, which left Dull and cohost Dave Kistler to speculate that Trump’s recent move to bar transgender people from the military may have “angered a lot of people” who could potentially want to retaliate.

Dull cited threats he has personally received, which he said came from “the LGBT group,” and which he said proves that “there is a hatred” within the LGBTQ community. Dull went on to explain that threats from LGBTQ people aren’t surprising “because the philosophy of the ‘LBGT’ group comes right out of the pit of hell” and because “Satan’s mission statement is in the first part of John 10 where it says, ‘The thief cometh but not for to kill and steal and destroy,’ and you see that in the LGBT group and other groups out there that are anti-God, anti-Christ, anti-Christian.”

Kistler went on to praise Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military as “absolutely amazing from a spiritual standpoint” and a “move that is in accord with what the scripture teaches with respect to human sexuality.” Trump’s actions, according to Kistler, are responsible for “creating a strong nationalist mindset with respect to the United States of America.”

Michele Bachmann #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Former Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann was a guest on Jan Markell’s “Understanding The Times” radio program again last weekend, where she claimed that a hotline set up by the city of Minneapolis for reporting hate crimes was fascist and a violation of the separation of church and state.

Last month, Minneapolis announced that a hotline had been established to allow residents to report hate crimes, which include “any crime against a person or property motivated by prejudice against someone’s race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identity. This includes prejudice-motivated property damage (including graffiti), stalking and assault.”

Bachmann claimed that this hotline is really an attempt to outlaw criticism of Islam and institute Sharia law, insisting that its creation is a violation of the separation of church and state.

“What we’re seeing is that hotlines are being set up by units of government for the purpose of encouraging people to call in and rat on their fellow man to report a hate crime,” she warned. “What they’re trying to do is implement anti-blasphemy laws. They’re trying to implement Islamic Sharia law locally in order to quiet churches and quiet anybody who would talk about what the truth is about Islam.”

“What they want is civilization jihad,” Bachmann continued. “They want jihad through the court system to silence speech because when you take away someone’s speech rights to speak out—like we’re doing right now, to tell the truth about something—then it’s game over — There should be a lawsuit filed against the city of Minneapolis for doing this. They have violated the so-called separation of church and state that the left is so in love with because they’re preferring Islam over any other religion and, number two, they’re fascists. That’s what they are, they’re fascists; they want to shut down your right to free speech.”

Linda Harvey #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Mission America’s Linda Harvey joined Cleveland conservative activist Molly Smith on her “From the Median” radio program in June to discuss the dangers of same-sex summer camps and sleepovers, which Harvey and Smith claimed attract homosexual predators and morally corrupted children.

“I would caution anybody to allow their children anymore to go to these camps, I really would, because so many times we’ve seen that this is where there are predators there to prey on our children,” Smith said.

Harvey warned that “any time there is any kind of same-sex environment—I do not mean same-sex homosexuality, I mean boys together doing things together, girls together—it attracts the people that would take advantage of them, and then it will be someone of the same sex, so access is what these people want.”

Harvey continued, “They want access to youth and access even to corruption. It might not be sexual, but it might just be moral corruption of some kind, their older peers who also are corrupted already. You know, so many kids are into pornography and homosexual pornography is part of that. You know, kids are sexualized early only online, you don’t even have to have somebody involved in it. So those may be the people that your kids are in a sleepover with or at camp with, you know, is these kids who are already highly sexualized and nobody may know it, but it’ll come out in the middle of the night.”

Rick Wiles #racist rightwingwatch.org

Yesterday, Joe Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt of court for defying court orders instructing his department to stop engaging in racial profiling back when he served as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. In 2011, courts had ordered Arpaio’s department to cease its practice of detaining Latinos simply on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally, but Arpaio refused and now he faces the possibility of serving six months in prison.

That development is not sitting well with End Times radio broadcaster Rick Wiles, who used his program yesterday to call on President Trump to not only pardon Arpaio, but to also to place him in charge of the Department of Homeland Security.

“I have an idea,” Wiles said. “In addition to giving him a presidential pardon — President Trump, if you want to stand for justice and do something to strike against the deep state, please nominate Sheriff Arpaio to be the next secretary of Homeland Security.”

“The position will put him in charge of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, along with the U.S. Border Patrol Agency,” Wiles added. “Your friends will shout with excitement and gratitude and your enemies will howl in misery, like wounded wolves.”

Wayne Allyn Root #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Right-wing commentator, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump–obsessed sycophant Wayne Allyn Root kicked off his radio broadcast on Wednesday by heaping praise on President Trump’s decision to ban transgender people from serving in the military.

“Brilliant Donald Trump cements his support among every conservative, every Christian, every evangelical Christian and every straight white male in America,” Root crowed. “We are back! America is back! Thank God for Donald Trump. Thank God for common sense.”

“We’ve had it with this transgender issue,” he continued. “Do whatever you want in your bedroom, but you can’t go in the military, you cannot serve alongside the men and women who are fighting to save America [who] don’t want to be on the battlefront or in the fox holes with a he/she.”

“You don’t get to fight in the military,” Root proclaimed. “Where does the U.S. Constitution say you have a right to not know if you have a penis or a vagina and sit in a fox hole and shoot people? ‘Cause you don’t have what it takes to sit in a fox hole and shoot people and the other men who do, don’t want to sit in a fox hole with you; they’re scared of you. They’re not scared of murdering communists, they’re not scared of crazy, murdering, set-you-on-fire Muslims, they’re scared of you who don’t know if you have a penis or a vagina! That’s who scares most straight men! Sorry to tell you. They don’t want to be near you. It’s like a freaking Nightmare on Elm Street if they see a bunch of transgenders walking towards them who don’t know if they are a man or a woman.”

“Those days are done,” Root celebrated. “Real men are in charge of the United States of America again, not the sissies called liberal men. Those days are over. The military is for real men ’cause your children’s lives are on the line.”

Lou Engle #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Dominionist prayer warrior Lou Engle appeared on “The 700 Club” yesterday to promote the “Rise Up” prayer rally he is organizing on the National Mall in October, which is designed to be an anti-choice response to the Women’s March which took place in Washington, D.C., following the inauguration of President Trump.

Engle told co-host Wendy Griffith about a prophetic dream in which he was told by God that “there are certain powers of darkness that can only be broken by women.”

“I believe abortion is one of them,” Engle said, explaining that he is organizing this prayer event because “it is the hour for a great mobilization of women” to end legal abortion in America.

Griffith and Engle then agreed that the recent “Wonder Woman” movie was a prophetic sign that “God is doing something in the spirit realm.”

“The movie is amazing,” Engle said. “My dream was that only women can break certain kinds of principalities and powers. I think sometimes Hollywood prophesies better than the church does.”

Rick Wiles #fundie rightwingwatch.org

End Times radio host Rick Wiles went on a rant on his “TruNews” program yesterday over reports that drag queens are reading stories to children at libraries across the country, declaring that such events are “another sign we’ve entered the time of Sodom and Gomorrah.”

Looking at photos of these gatherings “will make you want to vomit,” Wiles said. “Sodom and Gomorrah drag queens are being invited by librarians to read stories to children — God have mercy on this nation. America has become a wicked nation, worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. Worse than Sodom and Gomorrah! We’re wicked, we’re perverse, we deserve judgment.”

Wiles said that the only reason that God hasn’t already unleashed His judgement on America is “because He is giving this nation more time to repent before the nation is destroyed,” warning that His mercy will not last forever.

“How long do you think the righteous, holy God is going to allow America’s sodomites to defile the children?” he asked. “What do you think these drag queens are? They’re pedophiles. It’s a sick society — We’re sinking deeper and deeper and deeper into Sodom and Gomorrah and into debauchery. At what point does God cut it off in America to save the children from hell?”

David Barton #fundie #wingnut #homophobia rightwingwatch.org

On today’s episode of his “WallBuilders Live” radio program, Republican political activist and Religious Right pseudo-historian David Barton blamed gay people for the high cost of health care.

“The most expensive cost for health care in America per person is not seniors, it’s not those who live to be 100 years old,” he claimed. “The most expensive health care cost in America right now, by far, individually, is for homosexuals. They cost more in the system than any other, hands down.”

“You’ll find that all over insurance stuff, they all admit it,” Barton continued. “I’m not homosexual and I don’t have those health problems. As a matter of fact, I don’t smoke and I don’t drink, so I don’t have those health problems. As a matter of fact, I really exercise a lot, I control my diet, I have very few health problems but I’m having to pay for everybody else’s health problems. If my health insurance reflected my lifestyle, my health insurance would be really, really, really cheap. But when I’m having to pay for everybody’s bad decisions.”

Operation Save America #fundie rightwingwatch.org

The extremist anti-choice group Operation Save America is making national headlines this week as it begins a week of protests aimed at shutting down the last remaining abortion clinic in Kentucky. The group has been testing the enforcement of the FACE Act, the federal law guaranteeing access to abortion clinics; 11 Operation Save America (OSA) members were arrested for blocking the doors of the Louisville clinic in May and the group has now agreed to abide by a temporary restraining order allowing access to the clinic during their protests—a decision that OSA is portraying as a victory.

OSA picked its target carefully: Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has also been taking aim at the Louisville clinic and personally met with OSA leadership when they held a planning meeting in February. In December, OSA’s Rusty Thomas wrote to his group’s supporters that he was also planning to “meet with a Congressman who is a dear Christian brother who is serious about restoring his state in righteousness. He has graciously offered his help to OSA in establishing our comings and goings in his state.”

OSA’s goal, however, involves more than shutting down the last abortion clinic in Kentucky. The group has been urging state officials to defy federal law on abortion rights altogether and refuse to enforce the protections of Roe v. Wade in their state. The primary advocate of this strategy is Matt Trewhella, a Wisconsin activist who signed a statement in the 1990s supporting the murder of abortion providers. Trewhella is a fixture at OSA events and spoke at a press conference with Thomas this week. Thomas has said that Bevin praised Trewhella’s book about defying federal laws on abortion rights and LGBTQ equality when he met the group in February.

Speaking to Slate’s Michelle Goldberg about Trewhella’s “Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrates,” Thomas said, “It just appears that Kentucky may be the first ones who take it seriously enough to cross that line and finally do their duty in the midst of this Holocaust.”

In a press conference this week, Thomas insisted that it was the Supreme Court that had broken the law by ruling in favor of abortion rights: “We are not the lawbreakers. The Supreme Court are the lawbreakers. We are the law-keepers.”

At OSA’s national event in Wichita last year, the group held a mock trial in front of a federal courthouse in which it declared Supreme Court decisions on abortion rights, LGBT equality and the separation of church and state to be “null and void” because they are “not lawful in the eyes of God.”

OSA, which grew out of the protest group Operation Rescue and has a long-running feud with the group that currently calls itself Operation Rescue, is not shy about saying what it hopes will happen if abortion is recriminalized in the U.S. Thomas wrote on Facebook earlier this year that a woman who has an abortion has committed murder and must “face justice just like any other person who commits crimes of this magnitude.” Jason Storms, an OSA member who conducted youth seminars at last year’s Wichita event, told CBS this week that “A mother who has knowingly, willingly, chosen to kill her own child out of pure selfish motives, she’s guilty as a murderer in the eyes of the law.”

Extremist anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ activist Dave Daubenmire has been streaming his daily webcast from the Louisville event. He was a featured speaker at OSA’s event in Wichita, where he declared that “the only thing standing between tyranny and liberty is a Christian, heterosexual man.”

Despite OSA’s extremism, their mission of closing the last clinic in Kentucky seems to appeal to less bombastic anti-choice groups: the large anti-choice legal group Americans United for Life tweeted about the protests this morning.

Kevin Swanson #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Kevin Swanson, a homeschooling activist and radio host who last year hosted three GOP presidential candidates at a forum in Iowa, devoted his radio program on July 12 to complaining that Christians are merely trying to change public schools rather than abolishing them altogether.

Swanson invited Kevin Novak, the author of “Abolition: Overcoming the Christian Establishment on Education,” to discuss the issue, and the two concluded that it would be best if the public school system were to collapse and be replaced by a system run by conservative Christians that would give everybody “more freedom.”

“Academically, the educational system’s turned into a really, really, really big joke,” Swanson said. “It seems to me it’s gonna fall on its own weight, so I’m not sure we are going to have to bring about the fall of Jerusalem or the fall of the public schools here. It seems to me that this thing’s gonna fall on its own weight.”

Novak responded, “Well, I think, let it happen, you know? If Christians really believe the Scriptures, then we’re gonna be the ones to reconstruct society. We’re gonna be the ones with the answers, and that’s already happening.”

Novak claimed that when he ran a homeschooling group, non-Christians would ask his group for help and for “answers” regarding education.

“We Christians have the answers, and for those Christians out there’s a lot of them are in the homeschool community—I know that there are issues with homeschooling and private Christian schools, but I like to think that we’re part of the solution and not the problem, we’re at least trying,” Novak said.

Novak continued, “But we’re the ones with the answers, and we’re the ones that are going to save liberals from themselves because liberals actually have more freedom when Christians are in charge than when their own people are in charge, and let’s let the civil government school system collapse.”

Novak warned that upon the public school system’s collapse, Christians must be prepared to call for “less law and less taxation, less regulation, and complete autonomy to be able to educate in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.”

Rodney Howard-Browne #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Earlier this month, President Trump met with a variety of right-wing pastors in the Oval Office, where he was prayed over by a Holy Laughter pioneer posted Rodney Howard-Browne and others.

Following the meeting, Howard-Browne said that he had been moved to pray over the president to prevent a “planned attack” against him that was being organized by “people that hate God [and] hate America.”

While he was initially rather cryptic about what this supposed plan was, Howard-Browne told his congregation last weekend that it was a planned assassination.

Howard-Browne said that while he was in Washington, D.C., he got to spend three hours with “one of the senior ranking members of Congress” who told him “that there is a plot on Capitol Hill to take the president out.” When Howard-Browne asked if that meant to remove Trump from office via impeachment, the congressmen said, “No, to take him out, he will be removed suddenly from office.”

“Well, you can read between the lines,” Howard-Browne said, before adding that he then told the congressman that “we are going to stop it because we are going to mobilize the body of Christ to pray” to protect this president “who has opened the door [of the White House] to the body of Christ.”

“We are going to pray and God is going to intervene and the Lord is going to protect him and we are going to see what heaven wants done,” he said.

E.W. Jackson #fundie rightwingwatch.org

On his radio show yesterday, right-wing pastor and Virginia Republican politician E.W. Jackson claimed that people who prefer to be referred to with the gender neutral pronouns “they/them” do so because they are under the “possession” of “multiple demons.”

“This whole thing of going to a plural pronoun,” Jackson said, “to me, it is a subconscious spiritual admission of demon possession by multiple demons.”

“The only single individual I’m familiar with who spoke from the plural pronoun was Legion,” Jacking said, referring to an incident in the New Testament in which Jesus cast demons out of a possessed man.

“Who is the ‘they’ in there?” Jackson asked rhetorically. “We know who the ‘they’ in there is: a bunch of devils.”

Jackson condemned the “transgender toolkits” that have been provided to many teachers in the hope that classrooms can better accommodate students who do not identify with the gender binary, saying that these schools “don’t need a transgender tool kit” but instead need “a whole army of exorcists to cast all those demons out of people who are pushing this mess.”

Mark Taylor #fundie rightwingwatch.org

During a recent appearance on SkyWatch TV, “firefighter prophet” and right-wing conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor declared that churches that operate under a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status have entered into a covenant with Baal and have a “demonic portal” hovering over them.

Despite the fact that Taylor doesn’t seem to understand what 501(c)(3) status actually is, he is convinced that churches that operate under it do so because they have a “slavery mentality” and have taken a “bribe” from the government.

“It’s almost like they’re having a demonic portal over the top of them,” he said, “so it’s influencing each person and each ministry in a different way, depending on their spiritual maturity. This is why we’re seeing such moral issues, the financial corruption going on in the churches, this is why we’re seeing people leave because they’re tired of this stuff. But it’s that slavery mentality where they want to be governed, basically. They don’t want to be the one to rule and reign, like God called us to.”

“Ninety-five percent of our churches,” Taylor continued, “are under that 501(c)(3). They’re in covenant with Baal. That is a covenant with the kingdom of darkness, basically. They took a bribe from 1954 and entered into a covenant.”

Brian Babin #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Rep. Brian Babin, Republican of Texas, joined the Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch” program on Friday to discuss unsuccessful Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Babin was particularly upset with the ACA’s requirement that insurance plans cover maternity care and addiction treatment, complaining that the law requires families who are “law-abiding” and “make wise decisions” to have coverage that they “probably would not have to have.”

Babin claimed that most Americans were against the Affordable Care Act at the time it was passed and that they want to “get rid of this thing” now that “we’ve had a taste of socialized medicine.”

“So, failure’s not an option,” he said. “I think my colleagues in the Senate need to get together, and let’s get something that we can offer the American people to give them freedom and choice. And why should a 25- or 30-year-old man have to have maternity insurance? Why should every policy have a drug rehab clause in it, coverage in it? These are just the government-knows-best insurance regs that make the prices go up. So we’ve got to give them some choices here.”

Later in the interview, Babin said that the ACA requires insurance plans to cover things that people don’t need if they’re “law abiding and they make wise decisions.”

“You know,” he said, “if you’ve got a government that’s going to force you to buy a private product like health insurance and then make you—and this product, they tell you exactly what coverage you’ve got to have, it covers all these things that most families, if they’re law-abiding and they make wise decisions, that you probably would not have to have, then I think the price is going to come down.”

Babin added that if the ACA’s individual mandate is repealed, “a lot of folks” will probably go without insurance. “But whose choice is this?” he asked. “This is America, this is not the Soviet Union.”

Bryan Fischer #fundie rightwingwatch.org

On his American Family Radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer explained that the whole purpose of life is for people to prepare themselves to help Jesus Christ govern the world when he returns and that taking a stand against things like marriage equality and LGBTQ rights now is a sign that one can be trusted to help Christ “right the world right” in the world to come.

“When Christ returns, he is going to rule on the surface of the earth,” Fischer said, “and he is going to be asking us to help him run things. We’re now going to be under Christ’s reign in positions of authority to help him manage and direct and govern the Kingdom of God as it comes to earth and as it is administered on earth.”

Fischer said that “this life is designed by God to be like grammar school, like elementary school; the day is going to come when we are going to graduate and he wants us to be mature enough and wise enough to help him manage affairs on earth. It’s preparing us to exercise authority in the age to come.”

“So when we talk about the issues that ought to be exemplified, the values that ought to be enshrined in our culture, this is all part of us being prepared to exercise authority in the age to come, so we know Kingdom values, so we know what Kingdom values are,” he continued. “We know what the standards for society ought to be so when we get our turn to administer and to guide and to govern, we will know the policies, the standards that a society ought to be embrace.”

Fischer said that Christ is watching everyone alive today, looking for those he can trust to help him govern when he returns, “so when we talk about issues like homosexuality and the standards for marriage and sexuality and all that stuff, this is all a part of God preparing us to help him run the world right for the first time.”

Rick Joyner #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Right-wing pastor Rick Joyner posted a video on his Facebook page yesterday in which he asserted that, given that the GOP has been unable to repeal and replace Obamacare, the program must be allowed to fail, while insisting that doing so won’t cause a single person to die because anyone who needs treatment can go to the emergency room.

“You don’t want to repeal and replace it? We’ll just have to let it fail,” he said. “It will fail, it is failing, it is imploding right now. What does that mean? How is it going to work? It’s not going to be clean, it’s going to be messy, it’s going to be trouble. A lot of people are going to lose their health care, but listen, people are not going to die because of it. Anyone who claims that is, to me, they’re just a liar, a deceiver and a manipulator.”

“To be in the health care business, you cannot turn away any emergency,” Joyner said. “[It’s] federal law, [if] someone comes to the emergency room with an emergency, you have to take care of them whether they’ve got health care or not.”

Of course, the emergency room is not of much use to people who have no health insurance but need ongoing cancer treatments or dialysis or prescription drugs or any other regular health care services to stay alive.

But Joyner doesn’t think people should be focused on that and should instead be worried about the eventual establishment of a government-run health care system in which bureaucrats and “death squads” start signing “death warrants” to determine who lives and who dies.

Robert Oscar Lopez #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Mission America’s Linda Harvey interviewed fellow anti-LGBTQ activist Robert Oscar Lopez on her radio program last weekend, where Lopez asserted that colleges and universities that have a women’s studies or queer studies department should be stripped of their nonprofit status and denied access to federal funding.

Lopez said that Congress should pass laws banning tenure and “set up a RICO investigation office just for higher education” to monitor schools in order to prevent faculty and staff from “making donations to a political party” that then allocates federal grants and funding to those schools.

“It’s a conflict of interest,” he said.

Lopez would also like to see this office investigate whenever allegations arise that a conservative faculty member has been fired under “very shady personnel decisions” and strip schools of their nonprofit status as punishment.

“I think also we should have some kind of provision,” he continued, “that if a university has a department that is completely lopsided, like women’s studies or something, then they should lose their status because if you have a department like that—like women’s studies or queer studies—they get seats on the faculty senate and they’re going to be exercising all of this power — and those departments often have huge power over the rest of the faculty.”

E.W. Jackson #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Right-wing pastor and former GOP political candidate E.W. Jackson dedicated his radio program yesterday to complaining about how much “influence the transgender community has in the media” today. During the broadcast, Jackson said that if he saw a LGBTQ activist handing his child pro-gay literature, he “would really need the grace of God not to jump on that person and try to beat them into the ground.”

Jackson recounted an episode several years ago in which he and fellow anti-LGBTQ activists confronted members of GLAAD who were distributing “pro-homosexual pamphlets” to students outside of a middle school. Jackson said that when his group told the GLAAD activists that they had no right to distribute these pamphlets to children, the situation got rather tense as the GLAAD activists insisted that they were going to continue handing out the information because “parents are not going to tell their children the truth about their sexuality.”

Jackson said that he recalled thinking that “what they are doing is really dangerous because if I, as a parent, went to pick up my child and some gay person were bent over talking to my child, handing my child a piece of literature encouraging my child to be gay and to engage in sexual activity period, regardless; man, I would really need the grace of God not to attack that person.”

“I’m serious,” he continued. “I’m just being truthful. I would really need the grace of God not to jump on that person and try to beat them into the ground. I mean, that’s my baby, that’s my child and you’re going to step between me and my child and tell my child something that I object to and act like you have a right to do it? We would have a problem, a very serious problem.”

“If they continue this,” Jackson warned, “at some point, some parent whose child they are approaching is going to walk up and it’s going to get violent.”

Brian Babin #conspiracy rightwingwatch.org

Rep. Brian Babin, Republican of Texas, claimed in a radio interview last week that the media is pursuing the story of ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russia in order to “thwart the legitimacy of our democratic republic.”

Babin told Houston radio host Sam Malone on July 14 that he ignores news from mainstream outlets like CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and the Washington Post because they are trying to “delegitimize” the president and the democracy as a whole.

“I just don’t pay any attention to what they say about the president, because we seem to simply have an agenda on their part to delegitimize him and to take down his agenda and to thwart the legitimacy of our democratic republic,” he said. “You know, the other side of the aisle lost and elections have consequences.”

He added that he hadn’t seen “one shred of evidence, of real hard-core evidence, of any kind of criminal collusion of the president or even during his campaign, with the Russians.”

Wayne Allyn Root #sexist rightwingwatch.org

On his radio program yesterday, right-wing commentator, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump–obsessed sycophant Wayne Allyn Root rejoiced over the poor ratings that Megyn Kelly has received since leaving Fox News for NBC, attributing the results to the fact that liberal men won’t watch her show because they are all gay.

“She’s got great legs,” he said. “She’s a hot babe and no one gives a crap about her. You know why? Because a hot babe on Fox News, Republican men loved her; take her off Fox News, now the whole world knows what she is. Republican men like me, I wouldn’t tune in. Screw Megyn Kelly.”

“I hope she dies,” Root said, before quickly adding that he meant that he hopes “her ratings plummet and her career dies” because “she tried to screw over our man, Donald Trump.”

“Outside of Fox News, you have no support,” he continued. “You had the hottest show in the country, my friend, and what did you do? You spit in our face. Now you’re done. All those Republican men who appreciate beautiful women, we don’t like you anymore, we’re never going to give you the time of day, Megyn Kelly. Who’s left? Liberal women won’t like you because you’re coming from Fox News and liberal men, well, they’re all gay or they don’t appreciate pretty women.”

“Real men like beautiful women,” Root said. “Liberal men? You could walk into a room and they wouldn’t even notice. They’re too busy worrying about the poor. They don’t care about beautiful legs, they don’t care about your beautiful face and your blonde hair and your tight skirt. They don’t care!”

“You are a traitor,” he fumed. “Eat dirt. Have a nice life. Goodbye. Adios. Go to Mexico, you’re not wanted here anymore.”

Pamela Geller #fundie rightwingwatch.org

In an interview with ultraconservative radio host Janet Mefferd earlier this week, anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller claimed that Muslims in the “neighborhoods,” “workplaces” and “public squares” of the United States have initiated “a war on the First Amendment,” implying that this could eventually force “free men” to resort to violence against Muslims.

Mefferd prompted these remarks by asking Geller what her greatest concern was with regard to the “advancement of Islamic supremacy” in the United States.

“I would say above all it is the war on the First Amendment,” Geller said. “Because without freedom of speech, free men have to resort to violence. Everything else you’re seeing—the ‘mosque-ing’ of the neighborhood, the ‘mosque-ing’ of the workplace, the ‘mosque-ing’ of the public square—comes as the result of what happens in this war” against the First Amendment.

Geller’s comments appear to be in response to a recent court ruling that deemed it unlawful for a New Jersey township to prevent a local Islamic society from building a mosque on their own property. Geller was incensed by the decision, and mischaracterized the ruling as an infringement on anti-Muslim activists’ freedom of speech. “You have village people, city dwellers, who oppose” mosque construction and “are trying to fight it,” she said, but “you have the DOJ under Obama suing these towns” who “can’t afford to go up against the government.”

Kevin Swanson #fundie #homophobia rightwingwatch.org

On his “Generations” radio talk show earlier this week, radical anti-LGBT pastor Kevin Swanson declared that sexual assault in public schools “shouldn’t be too surprising” to anyone, because public schools are “so sexualized” through “sex-ed” and “homosexual indoctrination.”

“They’re talking about sex all day long; the schools are so sexualized,” Swanson said. “The fact that teachers are going to dabble” in sexual assault “should not be surprising.”

Swanson blamed the “very, very common” problem of sexual assault on the fact that “there is no Christian discipleship program” in public schools, which are “are not patterned after the Hebrew model” nor “patterned after the word of God.” Instead, Swanson lamented, “public schools are patterned after the Greek gymnasium and the Greek gymnasium involved a great deal of sexual activity, and of course laboratory experience as well. That is, the sex-ed classes usually involved some degree of laboratory experience.”

As a result, Swanson explained that “as the American public schools become more epistemologically self-conscious concerning their Greek-humanist model, that they have incorporated, you know, the classical model from the Greeks, of course they are going to have more sexualized experience between teachers and students.”

Jim Garlow #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Last month, right-wing pastor Jim Garlow was interviewed by Megan West of the organization My Faith Votes, where he claimed that “healthcare is God’s issue” and suggested that the government should impose a tax on citizens that could be given to churches so that they could provide healthcare to the poor.

According to Garlow, any government healthcare program is “doomed to fail” because the Constitution lists the “enumerated powers of what the government is allowed to do and can do, and one of them is not healthcare.” Instead, Garlow argued, the government ought to defer to the church on this issue because God “has already designed a format” for properly providing healthcare to a nation.

The “format” for healthcare that Garlow proposed has three tiers: the “government of personal responsibility, government of the family, and government of the church,” notably excluding “the civil government,” which he said has no role in providing healthcare.

“First of all,” Garlow argued, healthcare is “my own personal responsibility: I have to make decisions for my health. If I am not exercising properly, this is a terrible confession to make, if I am not properly exercising right now like I should, then I have to get that corrected it or I will pay a high price for it.”

The next safety net should be the “family unit,” Garlow reasoned, because “I can take care of my children much better than Donald Trump can. He’s a good man, but he can’t take care of my kids.”

The final resource for those in need of healthcare, Garlow suggested, ought to be the church because Christians are already commanded to care for the poor and the widows and the orphans: “If the church were freed up from the encroachment and the severe over-regulation in our culture and the severe over-taxation of our culture, the church could resume what it did very successfully” throughout history.

Garlow insisted that “the best medical care and welfare benefits can be done by the church” and should be funded through a “once every three years, ten-percent taxation on people” that would allocate money to “the faith communities.” According to Garlow, allowing the church to provide healthcare would “get rid of the freeloaders that abuse welfare.”

In the anticipation that some might object to his unconstitutional conflation of church and state, Garlow insisted that his plan actually puts the church and state “in their proper lanes.”

Linda Harvey #fundie rightwingwatch.org

In a recent audio commentary, anti-LGBTQ activist Linda Harvey of Mission America bizarrely claimed that recent moves to offer a gender-neutral option on driver’s licenses represents a threat to national security.

“People thumbing their noses in the face of our gracious creator God and some American officials are giving legitimacy to this serious confusion?” she asked rhetorically. “We are in such great trouble if we don’t stand up against this. Shouldn’t this be a matter for Homeland Security? I mean, think about the security of our nation’s capital. Now, there’s one more way for the person with destructive intentions to evade detection and capture. It’s not just a matter of morality any longer; the sexual anarchy agenda is becoming a matter of law and order.”

“Pray for a turnaround, friends,” Harvey beseeched her listeners, “and let’s make sure, wherever we can, we elect officials who won’t go along with such extremist nonsense.”

Bryan Fischer #fundie rightwingwatch.org

On his radio show last week, the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer criticized schools for focusing on teaching students about the history of slavery in America instead of teaching that it was Christians who ended the practice in this country and complained that schools are teaching students about Islam rather than promoting Christian pride or patriotism.

“What schoolchildren are being taught now more and more and more is that our Founding Fathers were all slaveholders,” Fischer said. “All they hear about when they talk about American history is how we tolerated slavery, which is a true fact, but we also made it illegal. We also freed the slaves.”

Fischer pointed out the commonality of slavery across mankind, arguing that schools should focus on Christianity’s role in ending the practice in America.

“What’s not taught about America is that we freed the slaves, we recognized the evil of slavery, and we did something about it that is to our credit,” he said.

He claimed that “if we only followed the Bible, we wouldn’t have had slavery in America,” adding that students are wrongly being taught that “the Bible is responsible for slavery.”

Fischer also claimed that public school curricula have become “pro-Islam.”

“You’ve got a lot of schools now that officially say you’ve got to teach about Islam, you got to have kids memorizing the Islamic conversion prayer, you’ve got to teach them the five pillars of Islam, get them to do it so they actually become practicing Muslims for a period of time, and that’s considered superior,” Fischer said.

Gordon Klingenschmitt #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Religious Right activist and former Colorado state legislator Gordon Klingenschmitt declared on his “Pray In Jesus Name” program last week that Americans would not need healthcare if this nation would simply stop funding Planned Parenthood because, if we do so, “God will heal your diseases.”

After declaring that Democrats and Republicans in Congress who are fighting to retain government support for Planned Parenthood “are being influenced by a demonic spirit because they want to kill children with your taxpayer dollars,” Klingenschmitt cited a passage from Exodus:

"If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you."

“You know what the solution to America’s healthcare crisis is?” Klingenschmitt asked. “Obey the Ten Commandments, stop funding abortion, stop funding child killing and God will heal your diseases, America. The supernatural blessing of healing is available if we stop working with the demonic spirit of murder.”

Klingenschmitt proclaimed that if America were to repent for the sin of abortion, then “we would receive [God’s] healing and wouldn’t need to rely on socialist healthcare.”

Mat Staver #fundie rightwingwatch.org

Mat Staver, the attorney behind the Religious Right legal group Liberty Counsel, guest-hosted VCY America’s “Crosstalk” program on June 26, the day that the Supreme Court ruled in the church-state case Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer. While Staver was happy with the Trinity Lutheran ruling, he told a caller that he was frustrated with Congress’ refusal to impeach Supreme Court justices and other federal judges who “create law” on issues like abortion rights and same-sex marriage.

“You know, as these life-long appointments, certainly the founders understood that they wanted these individuals to, number one, not be affected by the political cycle, and number two, they thought Congress would do its job and impeach people whenever they stepped out of line,” Staver said. “But Congress hasn’t done its job and we’ve allowed these cases to get out of control.”

The Supreme Court, he said, has been too often “inventing law” in cases like Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges.

“When they go so far afield as to create law that has no basis at all in the Constitution, Congress ought to exercise its authority to impeach,” he said.

Staver acknowledged that a constitutional amendment could impose term limits on federal judges, but he insisted “if Congress would do its job, we would not have to tinker with the Constitution.”

Instead, he said, the courts have become an “unchecked branch of government that becomes the superpower, the dictator if you will, to the American people.”

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