Bryan Fischer of the American Family
Association (AFA) has warned that “big gay” is out to destroy
chicken chain Chick-Fil-A.
On his Tuesday radio program, Focal
Point, Fischer came to the defense of Chick-Fil-A President Dan
Cathy, who unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he said gay
marriage is “inviting God's judgment on our nation.” He pivoted
in a subsequent interview, insisting “we don't have an anti-gay
or anti-anything policy or attitude toward anybody that's out there.”
Between 2003 and 2010, Chick-Fil-A gave nearly $5 million to groups
opposed to gay rights, according to Equality
Matters.
Fischer, who recently attracted
headlines when he attacked
presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney for hiring an
openly gay spokesperson, has previously compared being
gay to “people who eat the faces off homeless people,”
accused Massachusetts Congressman Barney
Frank of promoting a “deathstyle,” called for a
nationwide ban on gay sex, and argued that gay
marriage leads to bestiality.
“And they're trying to present
themselves as these innocent little victims, helpless and hapless,
being picked on across the fruited plain. And they're not. They are
bullies. They are intolerant, they are vicious, they are mean, and
they are after people of faith. There's no ‘'live and let live'
with the bullies at Big Gay. They don't know anything about
tolerance. Tolerance is not in their vocabulary. They have no
tolerance for those who support the institution of the natural
family. None, zip, zero. They have no room in their so-called
'diversity world' for people who believe in natural marriage. They
claim to be all about diversity, but there is no room in their world
for anybody that believes in traditional moral values. They're
absolutely intolerant and they have no room, they're anti-diversity,”
Fischer
told his listeners. “So I'm talking about this with regard
specifically to Chick-fil-A. And I am pointing out specifically that
the bullies at Big Gay are coming after Chick-fil-A. They're trying
to take them out, they're trying to obliterate them, they're trying
to go Ahmadinejad on Chick-fil-A, they want them wiped off the face
of the map.”
Fischer went on to encourage people to
take part in Mike Huckabee's Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day: “Let's
make it our goal to buy out every chicken sandwich that Chick-fil-A
makes on August 1. Let's have them run out of chickens, let's send
them out behind the restaurant with an ax to cut the heads off of
more chickens to feed people because they're selling so many chicken
sandwiches.” (The video is embedded in the right panel of this
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(Related: Rick
Santorum supports Mike Huckabee's “Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day.”)