In responding to President Barack
Obama's inclusion of gay rights in his inaugural address, Bryan
Fischer of the Christian conservative American Family Association
(AFA) described Obama as “ignorant about homosexuality.”
Obama strung together the gay rights
movement with the civil rights movement and the suffrage movement,
marking the first time a president has addressed gay rights in an
inauguration speech.
Obama cited Stonewall, the birthplace
of the gay rights movement, and stated that “if we are truly
created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be
equal as well.”
Fischer told his Focal Point
radio listeners that “homosexuals do not have a constitutional
right to engage in sodomy” any more than people have a right to
engage in pedophilia, incest and bestiality.
“All men are created equal but
nobody, nobody, nobody is created gay,” Fischer said. “Nobody's
born that way. So men are created equal but none of those men are
created gay. That's a sexual preference. That has to do with the
sexual choices they make. And so, President Obama is betraying here
an appalling level of ignorance about genetics and about biology. …
He doesn't know what he's talking about. It's embarrassing really
for him to betray this level of ignorance before the entire world.”
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