{"id":8364,"date":"2012-07-14T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T17:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8364"},"modified":"2012-07-14T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T17:48:28","slug":"frc-chooses-another-hatemonger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/14\/frc-chooses-another-hatemonger\/","title":{"rendered":"FRC Chooses Another Hatemonger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Family Research Council (FRC) has a long and inglorious history of hatred directed at and attempts to violate the rights of Muslims, Gays, Women and anyone else who refuses to goose-step to their Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian dogma.&#160; Now they have chosen yet another notorious hatemonger to a high executive post.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"14Boykin\" alt=\"14Boykin\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/14Boykin.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"479\" \/>The Family Research Council (FRC), an anti-gay hate group that claims LGBT rights advocates want to \u201crecognize pedophiles as the \u2018prophets\u2019 of a new sexual order,\u201d announced on Friday the appointment of retired Lt. Gen. William \u201cJerry\u201d Boykin as its new executive vice president.<\/p>\n<p>The press release accurately describes Boykin as a veteran who spent 36 years in the Army, serving in the elite Delta Force and, later, as deputy undersecretary of defense and intelligence in Donald Rumsfeld\u2019s Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>What it does not mention, however, is <strong>Boykin\u2019s troubled history of making&#160; damaging, controversial statements; his work as a radical anti-Muslim propagandist; or his close involvement with the New Apostolic Reformation, a theocratic evangelical movement that believes demons control LGBT people, Catholics, Muslims and freemasons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Boykin, who in 2011 said <strong>Muslims do not have First Amendment rights because Islam \u201cis not just a religion<\/strong>, it is a totalitarian way of life,\u201d became the subject of international criticism in 2003 when it came out that he had given a series of speeches at religious events, wearing full military dress, in which he said the <strong>United States was fighting \u201cSatan\u201d in the Middle East<\/strong> and insisted his God was stronger than that of his enemies\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/frc-appoints-islamophobic-ex-general-as-executive-vp\/\" target=\"_blank\">SPLC<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s Boykin in action.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UMYvCnLx1_w?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I could have chosen a video in which Boykin and Glenn Beck found themselves in complete agreement about everything they discussed, but I had mercy on you.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I\u2019m not at all surprised that FRC chose Boykin.&#160; However, I am appalled that such an individual climbed such a high rank in our in our military.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In a Republican Regime, Boykin and people like him would make decisions over your lives.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Family Research Council (FRC) has a long and inglorious history of hatred directed at and attempts to violate the rights of Muslims, Gays, Women and anyone else who refuses to goose-step to their Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian dogma.&#160; Now they have chosen yet another notorious hatemonger to a high executive post. 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