American Family Association

"People for the American Way is calling on GOP hopefuls Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, and Haley Barbour "to publicly tell the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer that the First Amendment applies to all Americans, when they appear on his radio show later today." Fischer, PFAW adds, "who has a long history of outspoken bigotry and intolerance, wrote a column earlier this week asserting that the First Amendment was meant to protect only Christians." Steven Benen points out that t

"There is nothing new about Tea Party ideology as can be seen in an examination of fundamentalist textbooks used to teach students in some private schools and homeschooling. The Tea Party's "Christian Libertarianism" is a creative repackaging of narratives that have become increasingly popular over the last three decades.  These narratives blend radical free market ideology with theocratic ideology.  In other words, regulatory powers of the federal government would be eradicated and the void would be filled and society controlled through adherence to biblical law."

"The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer is doubling-down on his view that the U.S.

"Reconstructionism's decentralist ideas have led to the creation of a network of churches, across a number of denominations, all building for the Kingdom. One Reconstructionist pastor writes that the leadership of the movement is passing to hundreds of small local churches that are "starting to grow, both numerically and theologically. Their people are being trained in the Reconstruction army. And at least in Presbyterian circles. . .we're Baptizing and catechizing a whole generation of Gary Norths, R. J. Rushdoonys and David Chiltons."