Fox News labels US Army designation of religious Right Wing anti-gay group as hate group, as an "attack on Christians and their beliefs."

Bryan Fischer

Courtesy of Fox News: 

Several dozen U.S. Army active duty and reserve troops were told last week that the American Family Association, a well-respected Christian ministry, should be classified as a domestic hate group because the group advocates for traditional family values. 

The briefing was held at Camp Shelby in Mississippi and listed the AFA alongside domestic hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam. 

This what one soldier supposedly reported to Fox:

The soldier said a chaplain interrupted the briefing and challenged the instructor’s assertion that AFA is a hate group. 

“The instructor said AFA could be considered a hate group because they don’t like gays,” the soldier told me. “The slide was talking about how AFA refers to gays as sinners and heathens and derogatory terms.” 

The soldier, who is an evangelical Christian, said the chaplain defended the Christian ministry. 

“He kept asking the instructor, ‘Are you sure about that, son? Are you sure about that?’” he said, recalling the back and forth.

Actually I think the instructor WAS sure that AFA is a hate group that targets homosexuals. 

This from the Southern Poverty Law Center:

The AFA has declared that “homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler … the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews,” suggested that gay sex be punished like heroin use, and said that the “homosexual agenda” endangers “every fundamental right” in the Constitution, including religious freedom. Both groups have enthusiastically promoted “reparative therapy,” which claims against the bulk of the evidence that it can “cure” gay men and lesbians and make them heterosexual, but in fact has left a string of people behind who were badly hurt by the process.

Ans what's more their most infamous spokesperson is Bryan Fischer. Here is a video of his many diatribes against gays.

Here is what Media Matters has to say about Fischer: 

Bryan Fischer, the American Family Association's unofficial spokesman and the group's director of issues analysis, has previously called on the government to prohibit mosques from being built anywhere in the United States, suggested "the most compassionate thing" America can do is deport all Muslims, and wrote that "gay sex is a form of domestic terrorism." 

The American Family Association has also enthusiastically endorsed Russian President Vladimir Putin's draconian anti-gay laws, with Fischer stating that the country isn't being homophobic but "homorealistic."

So yes they ARE a hate group, but labeling them as such is no more an "attack on Christians and their beliefs" then arresting a man for rape is an "attack on men and their penises."

And good for the US Army for calling them out for their hate speech and attacks on American citizens and military personnel.