The American Family Association continues to allow the daffy conspiracist Bryan Fischer a forum to spout religious bigotry. One of Fischer’s prime targets is the Mormon faith. During a recent talk show episode Fischer managed a “twofer” of bigotry and conspiracy. First he opined that the First Amendment does not apply to non-Christians (of which he includes Mormons). In Fischer’s world, the deists who crafted the Constitution were concerned only with Christianity, and no other religions. Later in that same video, Fischer makes the prediction that if a judge declares polygamy a legal right, members of the mainstream Mormon Church are just waiting to take plural wives.
Fischer doesn’t seem bright enough to distinguish between Mormonism and its polygamous offshoots. Nor does he seem to understand that to engage in polygamy results in expulsion from the LDS faith. But bigotry and stupidity are often synonymous
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