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RNC Going on All Expense Paid Trip to Israel With "Hate Group"
written by Anne Hartman
http://chatabout.com/thoughts/rnc-going-on-all-expense-paid-trip-to-israel-withhate-group-
I'm surprised how under-reported it's been that 168 members of the Republican National Committee are going on a trip to Israel with all expenses paid by the American Family Association (AFA), a group the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a "hate group".
The recently fired spokesman for the AFA, Bryan Fischer, has been no stranger to controversy. He's said that we are a Christian nation, and not a Jewish or Muslim one, and that the First Amendment applies only to Christians. Another of his gems is, Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and 6 million dead Jews. Fischer also shares the views of those who endorse Ugandas kill the gays bill.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-to-rnc-members-don-t-participate-in-hate-group-sponsored-trip-to-israel
01/20/2015
SPLC to RNC Members: Dont participate in hate group-sponsored trip to Israel
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I guess they figure since they fired Fischer all is forgiven. I can't say what I really want to happen on their plane trip. If only.
babylonsister
(171,094 posts)about this tonight. Don't know where I've been, but had no clue. And yes, they're still going, but she said there's still time to back out.
Great report worth watching; much more detail.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And I'll have to watch it tonight at 9:00 my time. I just can't believe they still intend on going. I hope they do. Just one more link in the chain.
babylonsister
(171,094 posts)because she goes way beyond what I posted. As she does. She keeps me informed when I get to watch her, and so darn smart. She doesn't usually waste time on fluff, which I really appreciate!
calimary
(81,507 posts)political science.
I ALWAYS learn something from watching her. On pretty much a daily basis.
Terra Alta
(5,158 posts)as long as it is a one-way ticket. The less hatemongers and bigots in the US, the better.
Though it may come to them as a surprise that Israel is not exactly a Christian nation, and very much a Jewish one. Fischer's anti-Semitic crap won't fly there.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)A one way ticket, and hopefully they get themselves arrested for paling around with a terrorist hate group.
babylonsister
(171,094 posts)even be welcomed. That would be delicious!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,472 posts)Is Rachel the only one talking about it?
babylonsister
(171,094 posts)Not on FB either. It will be now.
delrem
(9,688 posts)Any reader of random DU OPs re. Israel should know that Israel is quite progressive w.r.t. LGBT issues. That's a good thing and it's just one issue. This alliance makes little sense to me -- except that politics is politics and plenty of politicians are idiots.
Triana
(22,666 posts)Cha
(297,705 posts)YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)...are extreme right-wing white Protestant Christians.
To put it bluntly: people who fit that demographic profile were the backbone of the KKK (which, as you likely know, was extremely anti-Semitic and ant-Catholic besides being racist and xenophobic-not that those were mutually exclusive positions to hold, of course) in the 1920s-which had five million members and elected officials from both major parties throughout the country (not just in the South).
I guess issues of race, ethnicity, and class, along with the question of when your ancestors immigrated vs. who the immigrants are today (and what their racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic identities are perceived to be by the established dominant white American culture) shift the ideological priorities of the Right-to say nothing of how these issues complicate what it means to be an "American!", which is whole 'nother can of worms.
Undoubtedly it has something to do with right-wing evangelical Christianity's view of the "End Times", but to reduce it to a simple religious explanation without taking into considerations the *related* factors of race, ethnicity, immigration status, and class-and how they relate to changes in American foreign policy, particularly since 9/11-may obscure more than that illuminates.