Michele Bachmann to headline ‘Awkening 2013’ alongside 9/11 Truthers, Birthers, and other wingnuts
Right Wing Watch details the lineup at The Awakening 2013: Fighting For the Soul of America, and it is essentially All Star Wingnuts.
A sampling:
Mat Staver
The host of the Awakening conference, Staver has a long anti-gay record. He blamed the 2008 financial crisis on banks that “actively promoted the homosexual agenda” and said lawmakers who support marriage equality “are not competent for public office.” Staver has repeatedly called for a “revolution” to protest gay equality and warned that gay rights laws will increase violent crime, kill people and eventually destroy America and western civilization. He defended a Malawi law criminalizing homosexuality and argued that Obama supports “forced homosexuality.”
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Bradlee Dean
Dean, a Minnesota-based Religious Right activist and close Bachmann ally, extolled Muslims who are “calling for the executions of homosexuals in America” as “more moral” than American Christians and applauded African nations that imprison homosexuals. He has called homosexuality “a mental illness” and blamed gays for the Holocaust. Dean also believes that the government staged the Sandy Hook and Aurora mass murders to push gun control policies and that it was also behind the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Janet Porter
Porter is the architect behind anti-choice “heartbeat laws,” which effectively criminalize abortion. Such laws recently passed in North Dakota and Arkansas and have been considered in numerous other states. She has called on conservative Christians to gain control of government and the media, warning that under President Obama, conservatives and Christians may be put in concentration camps or starved to death. Porter prayed after the 2008 election that God would prevent Obama, whom she thinks might be a Communist spy from Russia, from taking office, and insisted that God will send Obama supporters to Hell.
Pamela Geller
A conspiracy theorist blogger, Geller has repeatedly suggested that President Obama is a Muslim — describing him as a “muhammadan” who “wants jihad to win” and supports a genocide against Jews — and the “love child” of Malcolm X, “a bastard, literally and figuratively.” She even attempted to justify far-right Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik’s attack on a left-wing youth camp, going so far as to blame the victims. Geller has also called for the destruction of the Dome of the Rock and likened an Islamic community center to a Ku Klux Klan “shrine.”
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Frank Gaffney
Gaffney is a birther who believes that President Obama is a “secret Muslim” and accuses the president of supporting Sharia law and pushing “efforts to promote Islamism.” He has even said that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel behaves like “an Iranian agent” and urged senators to oppose the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA because Brennan knows how to speak Arabic. Gaffney also helped engineer Bachmann’s witch hunt targeting Muslim officials in government. His views are so extreme that he has been banned from two leading conservative gatherings.
There’s a bevy of links detailing how nutso these people are within the RWW article linked above.