Bryan Fischer believes ‘evolutionists’ should be ‘disqualified from holding political office’

[beetlebums]

On his Internet-only radio show Focal Point on Wednesday, Bryan Fischer, the national spokesman for the American Family Association, claimed that no man can be trusted with political power unless he is a creationist

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[omimouse]

It doesn't fucking matter what the people that founded this country thought, because if we were still governing according to those principals, we'd still have slavery and women wouldn't be allowed to vote, and those are 'just' the first two things that spring to mind in a whole long list of things.

I am so fucking sick of this idea that we have to hold to what the 'Founding Fathers' thought and believed and intended for this country, rather than what the people who are fucking living here nowthink and believe and intend and want from their country. Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the whole rest of the slave-owning lot are dead, and if any of them ran for office today, I sure as fuck would not only not vote for any of them, I would devote a great deal of energy to making sure that they did not get elected.

[idemandjustice]

It doesn't fucking matter what the people that founded this country thought, because if we were still governing according to those principals, we'd still have slavery and women wouldn't be allowed to vote, and those are 'just' the first two things that spring to mind in a whole long list of things.

I kinda think a lot of them wish we could go back to this.

[skellington1]

It's just got layers and layers of wrong. The founding fathers didn't even agree with EACH OTHER a great deal of the time, so talking about what 'they' believed en masse is bullshit, and just shows that the people who invoke them have no real knowledge of history. Hell, if you really want to talk about what the Founding Fathers wanted, you'd look at the constitution... which lays out methods by which the governance of the country can CHANGE. That was part of the damn plan. Part of the plan which worked rather well, eventually, and let us abolish slavery and give women the vote and all.

Oh, and Adams was pro-abolition, not a slave holder. His wife was an abolitionist feminist who thought that women should have the vote, but that was ~too radical~.

[nextdrinksonme]

I read a great quote by Abigale Adams a few months ago where she basically told her husband that if women didn't start to be treated fairly, they were going to form a rebellion and refuse to adhere to any laws in which they weren't represented. She was a badass.

[crossfire]

I think people who don't believe in science should be disqualified from holding public office.

[moonshaz]

THIS!!!!!!

[tigerdreams]

That was my first thought too. Anyone who is so offended by reality that they will reject it out of hand because it doesn't fit with their inflated self-image is not someone I want wielding political power.

[bmh4d0k3n]

MTE

[nextdrinksonme]

...I'm pretty sure Darwin wasn't even born yet when America was founded, dude, so at not like the FF knew about his theory. Wtf.

Hell, they also didn't extend "all men" to all humans, or even all males, so it's not like one can really take their words at literal face value.

[moonshaz]

Actually, Darwin was born in 1809, but that doesn't make the rest of your comment any less valid!

[nextdrinksonme]

...exactly. Darwin wasn't born yet when the US was founded and the constitution was written in 1787.

[bellichka]

Erm, 1809 is after America was founded. *confused what you mean by this comment*

[lovedforaday]

bryan fischer is too ignorant for words, but i'm glad he gets media attention for his BS because he has way too much power.

[vulturoso]

OT but I just watched all of the Harry Potter movies for the first time recently, and when I saw Remus Lupin I knew I recognized him but didn't know from where.

...I knew him from seeing your comments on here! Ha!

[lovedforaday]

ha cool! how did you like the movies?

[aviv_b]

Actually, I'd like to see some type of science literacy test as a qualification for office . Because in addition to the anti-evolutionists, and anti-global warmers, we got a whole lot of representatives that somehow believe that a woman can't get pregnant if she is raped, rape kits prevent pregnancy, that an unfertilized egg, a fertilized egg, and zygote are people too.