Bryan Fischer, spokesman for the American Family Association, took to the airwaves to warn evangelical Christians that Obama is working to prohibit them from owning guns. He went on to say that this would be accomplished by branding them as dangerous people from whom guns must be kept. Early on in the video, Fischer mentions something going on the military where Christians have been labeled as domestic terrorists, and then says the logical conclusion to all of this is that Obama’s going to use that to disarm evangelicals.

First of all, the military didn’t label Christians as domestic terrorists. According to Todd Starnes, of Fox News, one Army instructor labeled evangelical Christians and Catholics as religious extremists in a training brief, and the Army neither agrees with nor condones that characterization of either branch of Christianity. The trainer in question said she got her information from the Southern Poverty Law Center, however, they denied giving the military any such information, and say they have never classified any branch of Christianity as extremist in nature.

Secondly, despite his assertions that his argument is logical, he makes an incredible leap from that to “We’re coming into your house to take your guns because you profess a belief in Jesus Christ.” Considering that the military did not, in fact, label Christians as religious extremists, let alone domestic terrorists, not to mention all the steps from the label of “religious extremist” to “probable cause,” his “logic” fails on many levels.

He ostensibly gets this information from part of President Obama’s speech in Mexico City, where he said the following:

“We recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States. In America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms, and as President I swore an oath to uphold that right—and I always will. At the same time, as I’ve said back home, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common sense gun reforms that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people—reforms that will save lives in both our countries. Meanwhile, we’ll keep increasing the pressure on the gun traffickers who bring illegal guns into Mexico, and we’ll keep putting these criminals where they belong—behind bars.” [SOURCE]

Yes, this so clearly refers to Christians. It doesn’t just refer to drug or human traffickers, convicted felons, known terrorists, various members of the drug cartels, and other people and groups known to be violent, it also clearly refers to Christians.

Fischer’s brand of right-wing extremism has contributed to the Southern Poverty Law Center labeling the American Family Association as a hate group. Regarding homosexuality in the military, he’s said:

“Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.” [SOURCE]

According to the SPLC’s website, he also said that Native Americans remain impoverished because they won’t embrace Christianity, and that they should have followed Pocahontas’ example because she accepted the ways of a superior culture, and turned her back on her own, presumably inferior, culture.

Much of his focus has centered on the dangers of homosexuality and their agenda, and what it’s doing to America. However, his paranoia about the current government shines through not just in his “logical” assertion that “keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people” ultimately leads to disarming Christians, but elsewhere as well.

Just recently, he asserted that the reason the military blocked the website SBC.net, which is the official website of the Southern Baptist Convention, was that it was an Islamist-secularist ploy to label the entire denomination as a hate group that produces and promotes actively hostile content on its site. The real story was that the website was infected with malware, which is why the military’s servers automatically blocked it due to hostile content. The Baptist Press reported that, and once the malware was removed from their site, access was reinstated on the bases where it had been blocked.

In other words, he’s certain that the entire government is out to get Christians, that Christians are undergoing increasing persecution here in the U.S., and that Obama’s “gun-grab” will affect Christians first and hardest. His evidence to back up such claims, however, is nonexistent. Perhaps he should take a look at what real religious persecution looks like.

Watch him for yourself here: