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Tell The American Family Association, ‘Kids Are Off-Limits’

by DAVID BADASH on SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
in BIGOTRY WATCH,DISCRIMINATION,NEWS,POLITICS

Folks, consider this a personal plea. Today, as we reported, Bryan Fischer, who is 62 (that’s him in the photo, above, center) verbally attacked a child. Using the power of America’s airwaves, backed up by the American Family Association‘s nationwide radio station network and online resources, Bryan Fischer told a 16-year old transgender girl that “he has a mental illness” — because she is transgender and had the audacity to be crowned Homecoming Queen.

That’s not OK.

I just published a petition over at Change.org, and I’m asking you to join me in signing it.

Here’s what I wrote:

The American Family Association is a certified anti-gay hate group. They get their money — about $18 million a year — from people who believe in hating LGBT people. And they’re a 501(c)(3) organization, so your tax dollars subsidize their hate.

While the American Family Association has every right to their business model, do you believe they have every right to publicly single out children and attack them on the nation’s airwaves?

American Family Association spokesperson Bryan Fischer recently verbally attacked Cassidy Lynn Campbell, a 16-year old transgender teenager, who was crowned Homecoming Queen at her (very conservative) Orange County, California high shool.

“He has a mental illness, he thinks he’s a girl and they elected him homecoming queen and the school officials allowed this charade to go on,” Fischer proclaimed to his listeners who tune in daily to the hundreds of American Family radio stations that litter 38 American states. “That violates everything we know about gender, about sex, about genetics, about biology, about human health, about what mental health is, it violates every known standard of decency and normality in America.”

Tell the American Family Association, ”kids are off-limits!” It’s not OK to attack children, and it’s not OK to use America’s airwaves to do it.

It’s time to send the professional, multi-million-dollar anti-LGBT hate groups a strong message: ”Kids Are Off-Limits!”

Do you agree it’s not OK for a multi-million dollar anti-LGBT hate group — and here’s the extreme irony — that claims to be a “pro-family” “Christian ministry” — to publicly attack a child?

I don’t, and I’m asking you to take a moment now to sign my petition to tell the American Family Association that they can attack the LGBT community all they want — they have the First Amendment behind them — but ”Kids Are Off-Limits!”

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