Bryan Fischer has made no secret of the fact that he wants to see Russian-style anti-gay “propaganda” laws passed in the United States, going so far as to praise Vladimir Putin as “the lion of Christianity” for leading his nation’s crackdown on gays.

On yesterday’s radio broadcast, Fischer again voiced his support for implementing such laws in America, declaring that it is “inexcusable” that these sorts of laws are not being put into place here.

“That’s a policy we ought to have in the United States,” he said of the Russian laws. “It’s inexcusable that we allow vulnerable, innocent young children to be indoctrinated, brainwashed, propagandized into thinking that homosexual conduct is perfectly normal and absolutely benign behavior when it absolutely is not”: