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Last week, Bryan Fischer was making his case, yet again, that it is liberals who hate women ... especially stay at home moms. This prompted Fischer to go off on a tangent and declare that women can have more influence staying home and raising the next generation of leader than she can by "going out in the world and making her mark out there":

It's not possible to overestimate that value that stay-at-home moms, what they contribute to society by investing their full energies in the children. Where does the next generation of leaders come from? It comes from moms, and dads, who are invested in the lives of their children. So a woman can have far more influence, far more significant impact on the world by giving herself wholly to growing her children up to be responsible, mature adults than she can by going out in the world and making her mark out there.

The implication here, of course, is that "the next generation of leaders" - and every generation of leaders, for that matter -  will be men since every woman should be at home raising children instead of "going out in the world and making her mark out there."

Liberty Counsel attorney Harry Mihet grew up in Communist Romania and lived there until his family fled to America and now, in his capacity as a right-wing culture warrior, never misses an opportunity to warn that sees America heading down the road toward communism.

So it was no surprise to see Mihet featured on today's "Faith and Freedom" radio program entitled "Is American Becoming Communist?" where he warned that things like the contraception mandate are just "communism by any other name." 

Host Matt Barber completely agreed with Mihet, declaring that groups like People for the American Way, the ACLU, the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State are "anti-theist" groups that "display a marked hostility towards religious freedom" and are seeking to make all citizens loyal to the state by "engaging in religious cleansing" ... which is "uncannily similar" to what took place in communist Romania:

• Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Huckabee's curious media analysis.
• Alyssa Rosenberg @ Think Progress: Hannah Giles, From ACORN Stings to Reality Television.
• Nick Sementelli @ Bold Faith Type: Catholic Bishop Goes Off Script About Religious Liberty, Warns of U.S. Despotism.
• Andy Kopsa @ RH Reality Check: Lila Rose and Live Action Decline to Respond to Questions About "Gotcha" Video, Failure of PRENDA.
• Ryan J. Reilly @ TPM: ‘Birthermercial’ Star Gary Kreep Ahead In Race For California Judgeship.
• Warren Throckmorton: David Barton’s whitewash of Thomas Jefferson as a slave owner.
• Finally, we are all going to be attending the Netroots Nation conference for the next few days, so blogging here will be sporadic to nonexistent for the rest of the week.

• Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker survived his recall election last night and now Richard Viguerie is crowning him "the de facto leader of the conservative movement."
• It looks like we will be seeing the return of the Parental Rights Amendment for the third year in a row.
• The Religious Right is not happy that June is LGBT Pride Month, in part because the "task of helping those who do not want to live homosexually grows more difficult each time this kind of proclamation comes out."
• Apparently, the first gay marriage has now taken place at a military base and Bryan Fischer is not amused: "The time to stop this nonsense is now."
• Finally, President Obama is making kids gay.

Yet again, the guest on this week's installment of Peter LaBarbera's "Americans for Truth Hour" was none other than Patrick Wooden where the two dedicated one more hour to discussing the results of the marriage amendment vote in North Carolina and their mutual animus towards gays and gay rights in general.

This time around, Wooden and LaBarbera predicted that one today's young people grew up and had families, their support for marriage equality would fade because, down deep, nobody wants their children to grow up to be gay, not even parents who are gay themselves, and anyone who says otherwise is lying:

Wooden: Young people grow up and it's amazing what happens when you become a mom or a dad yourself. It's amazing what happens when, all of a sudden now you are entrusted with a young life and that kid looks just like you and all of a sudden now it's your little boy or your little girl. No one wants their son to be a homosexual. No one wants their daughter to be a homosexual.

LaBarbera: The liberals are now saying, they are going around saying how happy they would be if their son came home, or their daughter, and said "I'm gay." And it's almost like they are arguing against nature that they are trying to persuade themselves because honestly I don't think many would be happy, and it's not something to be happy about to know that your son or daughter is entering an aberrant and immoral lifestyle. And yet, that's what they keep saying.

Wooden: Well, they're saying that be we know that's not true. No one, no one would want their child - even the homosexual father doesn't want his son to be homosexual; the lesbian mother does not want her daughter to be lesbian.

As we have noted several times in recent months, David Barton has a bit of a habit of saying things that are fundamentally and demonstrably untrue ....a tendency he continued today on "WallBuilders Live" when he praised Liberty University by claiming that the LU Law School was one of the top schools in the nation:

Every year, US News and World Report produces a list of the best law schools in America that ranks the top 150 schools and Liberty University Law School was ranked number "Rank Not Published," meaning it didn't even qualify among the top 150.  Thus, it is a little hard to understand how it could be considered one of the top law schools in the nation when it doesn't even make the list of top law schools in the nation.

Later, Barton began musing about some supposed connection linking welfare to failure to read the Bible enough, saying he'd love to see some study done that examines the correlation because "it makes perfect sense":

Wouldn't it be interesting to do a study between those that are on welfare and see how much and how often they read the Bible. You know, if Booker T. Washington is right that Christianity and reading the Bible increases your desires and therefore your ability for hard work; if we take that as an axiom, does that mean that the people who are getting government assistance spend nearly no time in the Bible, therefore have no desire, and therefore no ability for hard work? I could go a lot of places with this. I would love to see this proven out in some kind of sociological study, but it makes perfect sense.

Bryan Fischer has long made clear his belief  that gay rights and liberty are incompatible and cannot coexist because every advance of the gay agenda comes at the expense of religious liberty. 

But yesterday he took things a step further, declaring that gay marriage would mean the end of the First Amendment and tied that back to his assertion that "it is altogether right to discriminate against homosexual behavior" warning that if gays are not the ones being discriminated against, then Christians will be:

• PFAW: Senate GOP Filibusters Paycheck Fairness Act.
• Good As You: Today's the day: My book's officially out in the world, sprouting its little gay wings.
• David Ferguson @ Raw Story: Romney campaign looking for new copywriter after string of embarrassing typos.
• Noah Rothman @ Mediaite: Clinton Mocks Allen West Calling Democratic Representatives Communists: ‘This Isn’t The 1950s.’
• Tim McDonnell @ Mother Jones: GOP Ally of Big Coal Smears Environmental Activist With Kiddie Porn Accusation.
• John Fea: Some Thoughts on David Barton's "The Jefferson Lies"--Part Six.

• The Susan B. Anthony List says that is has had its computers seized as part of the lawsuit filed against the group by former Congressman Steve Driehaus.
• James Dobson boldly declares that he "WILL NOT pay the surcharge for abortion services ... It would be a violation of my most deeply held convictions to disobey what I consider to be the principles in Scripture. The Creator will not hold us guiltless if we turn a deaf ear to the cries of His innocent babies. So come and get me if you must, Mr. President. I will not bow before your wicked regulation."
• Sarah Palin will headline this year’s RightOnline conference in Las Vegas.
• Bryan Fischer warns his audience that the world economy is going to collapse.
• The Kansas chapter of the American Family Association is now trying to get an "obscene" statue removed from the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens.
• Finally, why is WND declaring that the Matt Barber column it is running is an "exclusive" when it is the exact same column that is showing up everywhere else?

For nearly two years now, Janet Porter has been focused entirely on seeing passage in Ohio of a radical piece of anti-choice legislation known as the "Heartbeat Bill" and been organizing a variety of stunts and promotions designed to pressure Ohio legislators to pass it, including flooding their offices with heart-shaped balloons and teddy bears and even scheduling a fetus to "testify" on behalf of the bill. But last month Senate President Thomas Niehaus finally got fed up with Porter's antics and announced that the Heartbeat Bill was dead.

But Porter had only grown more determined, refusing to give up and instead upping the pressure with more rallies while targeting specific state legislators with postcards and newspaper ads [PDF].

Today, Porter organized yet another press conference where she stood next to a giant inflatable rhinoceros and declared that, if the Ohio Senate failed to pass her legislation before leaving for summer recess, it would be "open season on RINOS," by which she means "Republicans In Name Only, " which is what she is calling Senate Republicans who are refusing to allow a vote on the bill.

Porter has literally done nothing but pressure these legislators to pass this bill for years without success, yet now she is boldly declaring that everything she has done so far "is nothing compared to what we're going to do" if the legislation does not get a vote before recess, as she will be left with no choice but to run ads comparing these Republicans not to RINOS but - the horror! - to Democrats: