Spotlighting The Dark Side Of Tupelo Mississippi

Spotlighting Racism From The Dark Side Of Tupelo Mississippi

Racism and hate mongering are the two primary attributes associated with the pseudo-family values AFA organization headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, my hometown.

Not only has the American Family Association earned its own reputation as the "Dark Side Of Tupelo Mississippi," it has recently been awarded the status of "hate group" by The Southern Poverty Law Center primarily for its years long hate campaigns to deny homosexuals their basic constitutional human rights ,(and more recently AFA, headed by its primary basher-in-chief Bryan Fischer, has been waging an ugly battle against Muslim rights, particularly targeting American-Muslims.) I noticed the intensity of Muslim bashing by the Christian Right- Wing began to become more noticeable with each passing day, beginning with day one, of the Obama Administration’s existence.

The tax-exempt, Tupelo-Based American Family Association, directed by the multi-phobic Tim Wildmon, commenced their Obama-bashing before he even had time to be sworn in. And, BTW, Tupelo is headquarters for two extreme Right-wing Republican Congressmen also associated with the "Dark Side." I’ll leave these two birds for another day.

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"Welfare Encourages Black People to Fornicate, Says Prominent Conservative Activist"– American Prospect Blog 4-05-2011

American Prospect’s Jamelle Bouie reports:

"...Bryan Fischer -- ‘Director of Issues Analysis’ for the American Family Association -- has weighed in on "welfare." In short, he doesn't like it. Why? Because it encourages"fornication" among black people:

Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. Welfare has subsidized illegitimacy by offering financial rewards to women who have more children out of wedlock. We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it’s no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits."

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Muslim-Bashing From The Dark Side Of Tupelo Mississippi

Huck, Newt & Haley Palling Around With Anti-Muslim Extremists
By Siddhartha Mahanta, MJ, Mar. 25, 2011

"For GOP presidential hopefuls, its become necessary to court the crazy. Earlier today, Tim Murphy  about Newt Gingrich's remarks at an American Family Association forum in Iowa, where the former House Speaker—and likely Republican presidential contestant—lavished praise on Islamophobe conspiracy theorist David Barton."
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The War On Women's Health--Not Just A War On Women's Health, But Also On Women's Futures

This Is An Open-Post To: Sen. Roger Wicker (R) And It Is Representative Of His Extremist Conservative Politics That Help Constitute "The Dark Side Of Tupelo, MS."

 The War On Women’s Health

by Deborah Burger, Co-President Of America’s RN Union : National Nurses United

The far right and their representatives in Congress and many state houses sure have a unique way of celebrating the centennial anniversary of International Women's Day.
News that the Texas House of Representatives last week approved a bill, already passed by the state Senate, to force women seeking an abortion to first get an ultrasound test is one of a number of attacks on women's health in the works.

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Grant Storms Arrested: Anti-Gay Christian Pastor Charged Over Public Masturbation

Did you know that the AFA’s Rev. Tim Wildmon has many fear-mongering talking points he uses against the gay community? The one that comes to mind here is: gays are "pedophiles."Of course,

that’s all a lot of hooey that rolls out of Tim’s lips, especially given the fact that one of his own in the service of Anti-Gay Christianity appears to have been caught in the first stages of pedophelia in Louisiana. -E.B.

Learn more by Nick Wing, HP, Mar. 3, 2011, posted here:

Islam-Bashing / Islamophobia --Part of AFA Agenda

Rep. King's (R), 2011 House Un-American Activities Committee Targets Muslim Americans...
Huffington Post, Feb. 28, 2011

"Republican Representative Peter King ,(R-NY), is organizing congressional hearings to cast suspicion on American Muslims"--(D) Rep. Mike Honda, reports.

Honda says:

My father loved this country and proudly served in the U.S. Military Intelligence Service. Yet when I was a young child during World War II, we were confined for several years at Camp Amache, an internment camp in southeast Colorado, simply because we were of Japanese ancestry. Hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans were unjustly placed under scrutiny and suspicion because few in Washington were brave enough to say "no." The decision to incarcerate, according to a report by the congressionally mandated Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, was based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership."

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Not only is Islam-bashing a favorite activity among many Republican congressmen in Washington, it is  an ongoing favorite activity of AFA radicals  on the "Dark Side Of Tupelo, Mississippi:" 

AFA’s Most Notable Phobias: 


The American Family Association, a Christian Right organization headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, is obsessed with at least three major phobias, phobia being defined by Webster online as:
"an exaggerated usually, inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation."

1. Homophobia: irrational fear of, or aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals –Webster

2. Islamaphobia or Muslim phobia: irrational fear or aversion to, or discrimination against Muslim -Americans in particular those who aren’t associated with Muslim terrorists acts or sedition of any form. – E. Bratton

3. Xenophobia: fear and hatred of strangers., or foreigners or anything that is strange or foreign.– Webster
The tax-exempt AFA’s war on Gays shifts its focus to American Muslims from time to time depending on the pre-dominant American political climate of the day. The vitriol they spew is equally as offensive between the two groups.

>>> Mar. 01-2011

Spotlighting The Dark Side Of Tupelo Mississippi

Spotlight Again Focused on the AFA's Bryan Fischer...–AB

Truth Wins Out Calls On The American Family Association To Fire Bryan Fischer For Blatant Bigotry

AFA Deletes Bryan Fischer’s Online Diatribe Against Native Americans In Swirl of

Controversy.

 Re-posted 2-24-11

"The American Family Association should immediately fire Bryan Fischer," said Truth Wins Out’s Executive Director Wayne Besen. "If he remains on staff, it is fair to conclude that his opinion accurately reflects the official position of the AFA."

The article, "Native Americans Morally Disqualified Themselves From the Land," was so outrageous that fellow AFA writer Elijah Friedeman condemned it. The AFA also removed Friedman’s article from its website, hoping the controversy would go away. According to the original article written by Fischer:

"In all the discussions about the European settlement of the New World, one feature has been conspicuously absent: the role that the superstition, savagery and sexual immorality of native Americans played in making them morally disqualified from sovereign control of American soil."

The AFA is a Tupelo, Mississippi-based organization known for launching failed boycotts against The Walt Disney Company, Home Depot, Wal Mart, Ford Motor Company and McDonalds. The group once accused Mighty Mouse of snorting cocaine. The AFA was recently certified as an official hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Truth Wins Out called on the American Family Association today to fire Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis, for publishing an offensive online column defaming Native Americans. Faced with a firestorm of criticism, the AFA deleted the article, "Native Americans Morally Disqualified Themselves From the Land," from it website. The AFA should take the next step and dismiss Fischer for espousing raw hatred and unrepentant bigotry, says TWO.

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