Bryan Fischer of the American Family
Association (AFA) has said the “homosexual agenda” is America's
“greatest immediate threat.”
Speaking at the 2011 Values Voter
Summit in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Fischer told attendees that
the next president must support religious liberty over gay rights,
because they cannot co-exist.
“I believe we need a president who
understands that just as Islam represents the greatest long range
threat to our liberty so the homosexual agenda represents the
greatest immediate threat to every freedom and right that is
enshrined in the First Amendment, it's a particular threat to
religious liberty,” said Fischer to applause. “We need a
president who understands that every advance of the homosexual agenda
comes at the expense of religious liberty. We need a president who
understands that we must choose as a nation between homosexuality and
liberty, because we cannot have both. A president who understands
that we must choose between homosexuality and liberty, and who will
choose liberty every time.” (The video is embedded in the right
panel of this page.)
Earlier, Mitt
Romney had called for civility in denouncing Fischer's anti-gay
rhetoric.
In addition to the event being
sponsored by the AFA, presidential hopefuls Herman Cain, Michele
Bachmann and Newt Gingrich have previously appeared on Fischer's
radio program, Focal Point.