Adding to an ongoing list of controversial statements, American Family Association President Bryan Fischer is now claiming that HIV is not the cause of AIDS or the AIDS epidemic.
While Gov. Rick Perry drew criticism for the political overtones to the August prayer rally he hosted just days before he announced his run for the presidency, The Response also focused national attention on the American Family Association, the controversial conservative group funding the event.
Blogs lit up late last week, when it became apparent that even though the American Family Association’s (AFA) Bryan Fischer is not listed as a scheduled speaker at this weekend’s Values Voter Summit, Fischer will be there to speak, directly after GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
David Lane, the influential California-based activist the New York Times has called “a stealth weapon for the right,” typically avoids the mainstream media spotlight — as he has since the mid-1990s, when he began mobilizing evangelical pastors and their congregations to vote during “Pastor Policy Briefings” and the Texas Restoration More…
Prayer-goers who attended Gov. Rick Perry’s “Response” in August may have been surprised to find themselves on a mailing list encouraging them to take part in an ambitious Christian voter mobilization effort two weeks after the rally.
Those who signed up to attend “The Response,” the all-day prayer event hosted by Gov. Rick Perry earlier this month, are now being asked to partake in an ambitious voter registration effort targeting conservative Christians, ending a months-long dance around the question of whether the event was political in nature. More…
A recent Salon article exploring the “surprisingly warm” relationship between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the Muslim community leans on the Republican presidential candidate’s ties to the Aga Khan, religious leader of the Ismailis — a sect of Shia Islam — as evidence he is well-connected to at least More…
Prayer, piety and God is what “The Response” was about, according to those organizing Gov. Rick Perry’s all-day prayer and fast last weekend — but critics said the governor was playing political opportunist, using religion to fuel his presidential aspirations.
Since Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his plans to host a prayer and fasting event earlier this summer — one that would be primarily sponsored by an extremist evangelical organization designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-gay hate group — criticism swelled in two directions.
The Response, a prayer and fasting event featuring rumored presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry and financed by the American Family Association, has drawn heat from faith leaders and the civil liberties groups who say the event leaves out people who are not conservative Christians and More…
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