Christian radio host fears Iowans may be forced to eat gay pride burger

[DonViejo]

By Arturo Garcia
Friday, July 11, 2014 22:03 EDT

The American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer voiced his concern on Friday over the idea that a new Burger King item honoring LGBT Pride events in San Francisco could be sold in other parts of the country, Right Wing Watch reported.

“If this isn’t bottled up in San Francisco, this kind of nonsense, then it’s going to be spreading across the entire fruited plain,” Fischer complained. “And you’re going to be going to your Burger King in Des Moines, Iowa and you’re going to have a rainbow color wrapper for your Whopper.”

The burger chain featured the “Proud Whopper” earlier this month at one San Francisco location, bearing rainbow-colored packaging and the phrase, “We are all the same inside” on the inside of the wrapper. The company also posted a video of people ordering and reacting to the promotion. (I posted the video below, after the ending of this article - Don)

“I cried in there,” one woman said in the video. “A burger has never made me cry before.”

Fischer scoffed at the tearful reaction, and suggested that his group would try to do an “action alert” to protest to the company.

“I gotta tell you, I think this is a marketing mistake,” he said. “I think this is a bonehead move from a marketing standpoint. Because I gotta guarantee you, when people sit down to eat a hamburger, the last thing they want to be thinking about is two guys having sex.”

Watch Fischer’s commentary, as posted by Right Wing Watch, below.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/11/christian-radio-host-fears-iowans-may-be-forced-to-eat-gay-pride-burger/

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[pinboy3niner]

1. "the fruited plain"

No, that's not offensive at all. Bryan Fischer and AFA--SSDD.

[geardaddy]

56. That was my thought.

[Aerows]

63. I called him a fuckstick below and think that might be a little harsh

Fucksticks were probably offended by my association of them with this vile creature.

*sigh* I apologize to vile creatures, too.

[tanyev]

2. Funny how little it takes to get some fundies thinking about two guys having sex.

[RKP5637]

8. Yep, it's a real turn on for them, they love to get all worked up about

other peoples sex. They sure do project a lot their lust for gay sex.

[TheMightyFavog]

36. Funny he didn't say two WOMEN having sex.

Ten bucks says that he's got at least a terabyte's worth of lesbian porn on his laptop.

[mythology]

43. Yeah but that's different

because it's hawt or something and he can pretend that they really want him and if he were there they would throw themselves at him.

[WinkyDink]

74. My money is on gay (male) porn.

[dixiegrrrrl]

79. Gay women have, as a rule, been invisible to homophobes, who are mostly men.

Doesn't take a student of Freud to figure out what the men are reacting to.

[sufrommich]

3. Well, teh gays now have a " a race of super gay male soldiers"

to enforce such things.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-warns-adolf-hitlers-race-super-gay-male-soldiers-taking-over-america

[heaven05]

7. extreme nonsense

now hitler and top nazis were gay. Historically I thought the nazis were trying to, along with the jews, gypsy's, jehovas witnesses, rid the world of gays? That's my reading of the victims of his extermination camps.I mean hitler and the rest of those mentioned by this clown may have been gay, but this rick wiles is wily, true. Inverted BS to keep confusing his masses. I guess.

[Enthusiast]

13. Idiots.

My apology to idiots.

[Laxman]

4. Herein lies the issue....

doesn't it?

“I gotta tell you, I think this is a marketing mistake,” he said. “I think this is a bonehead move from a marketing standpoint. Because I gotta guarantee you, when people sit down to eat a hamburger, the last thing they want to be thinking about is two guys having sex.”

The first thing that pops into the heads of people like this preacher's is "two guys having sex". Like its any of their business in the first place-but I digress. They don't see human beings. They don't see any of the qualities that make up a person. They don't see their neighbors, co-workers or even family members. This is what they're obsessed with. Visions of gay sex. Says about all we need to know about Reverend Fischer and his American Family Association. Whatever happened to "all of God's children" Reverend?

[Saviolo]

12. This is the biggest obstacle

It all comes down to people like this guy finding gay sex "icky" to think about.

I'm gay, and a lot of my friends are gay. I don't know a single gay person who thinks about gay sex as much as these religious pastors and anti-gay crusaders. As though by just existing we are "forcing" them to think about gay sex. That things like this "proud Whopper" is shoving it in their faces, or down their throats. A picture of my husband on my desk at work is shoving it in their faces 'cause it makes them think of gay sex.

Well, guess what? That picture you have on your desk of you and your lovely wife? That make-out session between a guy and a girl on the bus? Straight couples holding hands in neighbourhoods were queer couples would get beat up? Those don't make me think of straight sex, though they sometimes make me think of straight privilege.

[Eleanors38]

72. First thing what popped out was his "bonehead."

[shenmue]

5. Nom nom nom

Burger King is a holy place to me.

[RKP5637]

11. Now, let's take a closer look at the Burger King, King ... hmmm, will that be their next

protest? Damn these jerks are totally weird.

[adieu]

6. Funny he mentions Des Moines

The Midwest bastion of gay culture.

[littlemissmartypants]

9. Kicking. nt

[PeaceNikki]

10. Pride burgers are item number 438 on the "Gay agenda"

Or something

[awoke_in_2003]

47. Don't be giving away secrets

[justhanginon]

14. Oh no! Not the infamous rainbow colored wrapper. In

the name of all that is holy someone get me an exorcism to go.

[politicat]

15. Considering Iowa was 4th to legalize SSM... I think they can handle it.

Fischer, on the other hand, really needs to get to work with an analyst to get to the root of his deep-seated obsession.

[JaneFordA]

16. An idea

Here's a good time-waster: find any results for the yammering of the last 40 years about, "If this awful thing happens, Christians will be forced, FORCED, I promise you, to do ____________." Or perhaps we should have a lion-check and see how many of them are excreting martyrs? Snarkily, Jane the Pain

[safeinOhio]

17. A few weeks ago I tuned in a Christian radio

station while I was on a long drive. I've never heard so much hate. Casting stones, bearing false witness, hating their neighbor and begging for money. Stories about the muslim take over, gay agenda and their religion under attack that can only be stopped by sending cash and lots of it.

Hold your nose, some afternoon and listen in.

[Initech]

40. They preach hate and beg for money.

That's exactly the reason I left my church over 10 years ago and never looked back.

[Beach Rat]

18. Maybe its the "Whopper" part that's got him all worked up!

He keeps hearing the word whopper and it makes him think of sex. He seems to emphasize it a lot. Listen to him talk-"You get a rainbow wrapper for your whopper". Seems he's got whoppers on his mind!

[GeorgeGist]

19. I suspect it makes them fappy.

[scarletwoman]

23. ...

[brewens]

20. I don't suppose he'd be opposed to thinking about two women having sex while eating his burger? n/t

[Skidmore]

21. Fools like this always underestimate Iowans.

They seriously just do. And so many others do too. Proud of my state and its progressive history.

http://www.councilbluffscommunityalliance.org/iowa/iowas-progressive-history/

[NickB79]

22. Surprised there wasn't some "they're gonna jam it down our throats" line in there

Ya know, a Freudian slip on his part

[progressoid]

27. A rainbow wrapped Whopper no less.

[KinMd]

24. I had one and immediately wanted to redecorate my house...

[Contrary1]

45. Duzy!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

60. And sing Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals!

And West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim.

[dixiegrrrrl]

80. LOL...you made me think of

a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flash mob at a Burger King!

Can you just picture it??

[Manifestor_of_Light]

81. They could sing "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy"!!!!

From South Pacific.

[pipi_k]

25. Today it's rainbow colored wrappers...

Tomorrow, who knows...perhaps McDonald's tries to "infect" the kiddies with "Gay Meals".

[randys1]

26. You arent being fair to him

He is a nice guy, he has a dog I heard and he doesnt kick it.

Just misunderstood

I would call him names he deserves to be called but i will get my 5th alert i if i do that so i wont

[uppityperson]

28. bwahahahahahaha. How could anyone take that seriously? Wtf does he do when there is a rainbow in the

sky? The last thing people want to do is not be able to look at the sky because they think of 2 guys having sex? And he is so concerned with Burger King losing money he wants to what, ban a rainbow rapper? Acceptance of people because we are all the same inside will SPREAD ACROSS THE COUNTRY!!!!!! Good god, next thing you know the slaves will want to be freed and wimmen vote!!!!!

What a lot of mixed arguments coming down to fucked up bigotry.

[xchrom]

29. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA///111 that's right -- we're going to make every one eat Pride Burgers

on Teh Fruited Plain.

[awoke_in_2003]

48. I want bacon on mine. nt

[DirkGently]

30. Rainbows and Equality. Terrifying!

What if rainbows and messages of equality were to spread ... EVERYWHERE?!!!

[pinboy3niner]

31. What an idiot! That will never happen...

...until we get him into the FEMA camps.

[IDemo]

32. Another day, another outrage over inanity

Here's my take:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=journals&uid=158615

[Blue Owl]

33. Have it your way baby!

[Initech]

34. OMG!!!! Teh evil gheys are using teh Burger King as an evil plot to destroy America!

Seriously can we just call the professional bigots stupid at this point? Fuck you Bryan Fischer.,

[awoke_in_2003]

49. Of course they are....

Hello??? Burger KING

[Half-Century Man]

35. If wrapping a hamburger in a piece of paper with a rainbow printed on it makes it a Gay-Burger.

Does putting on a burger King uniform make a worker a hamburger or a King? If you folded the afore mentioned rainbow printed wrapper into a hat and put on the head of said newly formed burger or King, would they become gay?

Or is your head so far up your ass you can see the back of your own mouth?

[louis-t]

37. "We're all the same inside."

Oh, I thought they were talking about their crappy hamburgers.......

[sakabatou]

38. O NOES!

[Contrary1]

39. "...the last thing they want to be thinking about is two guys having sex.”

Actually, I want it to be the very first thing you think about, Mr. Fischer. Every single time you bite into a burger.

Bon appetit'.

[Initech]

41. Please! Please! Please!

[awoke_in_2003]

50. He probably already does...

I think the biggest homophobes doth protest too much. Wasn't there a study lately that found that homophobes who viewed gay porn became more aroused than with straight porn?

[Buns_of_Fire]

42. Actually, the LAST thing I think about while eating a tasty, toothsome burger

is two guys having sex. Or two girls having sex. Or a guy and a girl having sex. Or an ocelot and a kangaroo having sex. I don't care what the wrapper is.

This man has serious, serious problems, if everything reminds him of two guys having sex. God Only Knows how he manages to get through a hot dog.

[nomorenomore08]

44. Just got a mental image of this asshole being force-fed a burger "Clockwork Orange"-style...

[agentS]

46. Wow, those Reich Wingers are upset!

They act like Burger King is going to get rid of the ENTIRE Burger King menu and replace it with the Proud Whopper!!!
Yeah OK Mr. Fischer (and never caught anything)

Anyway, if you're not fond of fast food, but want to make your own version of the Proud Whopper, start here with the generic Whopper recipe.
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/Burger-King-Whopper-Copycat-Recipe.html

[Thinkingabout]

51. I think he is in need of conversion therapy.

[jmowreader]

54. You want to convert him to...what?

My recommendation is, we convert him to a hedgehog. At least they're cute, and they eat insects.

[Thinkingabout]

55. I was just making fun of the groups which thinks conversion therapy works.

Perhaps he can rethink his hate.

[jmowreader]

52. The first thing Bryan Fischer thinks about is two guys having sex

It doesn't matter whether he's sitting down to eat a burger, changing the oil in his car, washing the dishes, trying to decide what to watch on TV tonight...it's all gay sex! gay sex! OMG! Men are HAVING GAY SEX! And he fantasizes about every little detail of MEN HAVING GAY SEX! I swear! Gay men don't think about gay sex as much as Bryan Fischer does!

[Hugabear]

67. Anti-gay bigots often think about two guys having sex

Venture into any open discussion board dealing with gay issues, and invariably there will be anti-gay bigots going into graphic descriptions of what they imagine gay sex to be.

[jmowreader]

69. They also introduce gay sex into places where gay sex wouldn't logically enter into the discussion

Here in Lake City - River City is ten miles west of here - we've been having this big kerfuffle about hydroplane racing. In the 1950s and 1960s we had hydro racing, and they stopped for a few reasons - the promoters lost too much money and there were riots downtown a couple years on race weekend. (What they fail to remember is in 1962, there were no open-container laws in Idaho and drunken riots were fairly routine - people would go downtown to one of the fifty bars, get shitfaced, start raising hell, the twelve cops we had back then would arrive, and the drunks would throw empty beer bottles at them and trash stores. No big deal.) Now some of the people who remember going to hydro races as kids want to bring them back, and a lot of people are pissed off about it. Someone managed to introduce gay sex into THAT discussion! Apparently, if we have boat races The Evil Gays will start having gay sex on pit road.

Oh, and we recently built a splash pad in our new park that has a fiberglass pirate ship in the middle of it. That's going to be used for gay sex too. I don't know WHO will want to have gay sex on this thing or who even COULD, it's only about three feet high and six feet long. But bigotry knows no bounds.

[uppityperson]

76. I fired a customer once over a comment like that. We were discussing marriage equality and he

was against it because he didn't want to see 2 men (bad words for having anal sex) in his livingroom. Seriously, wtf? So much wrong, it was difficult to know where to start. I thought he was joking at first, it was so outrageous. When I was done, he said he'd learned something about me.

Yeah, asshole, that I speak out strongly against bigotry? yeah, you sure as shit learned something about me.

I don't need that sort as customer, don't need to spend my time and energies helping them out.

[catbyte]

53. Man, I can't imagine how much it must suck to be a hate-filled asshole like him.

It would be so exhausting.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

57. "the last thing they want to be thinking about is two guys having sex.”

Der Wienerschnitzel should do it to their chili dog just for this guy.

[el_bryanto]

58. Maybe poor Bryan Fischer just has a really hard time not thinking about "two guys having sex.”

SO he's sensitive to what other people who can't stop thinking about "two guys having sex."

When I eat a whopper i think "I hope this grease doesn't give me heartburn and keep me up tonight."

Bryant

[Jack Rabbit]

59. So Bryan Fischer calls an expression of gay rights "nonsense"

That man has no sense of irony, does he?

What would Jesus call right wing Christian churches organizing hatred of gay people? Now, that's nonsense.

[Aerows]

62. FFS

Don't go to Burger King then, drink Pepsi or any of their affiliates. Situation corrected, fuckstick.

(not directed at OP, the asshole that opened his cakehole thinking it was a mouth).

[azurnoir]

64. Guess Lucky Charms got slipped right past him

what with those rainbow marshmallows being marketed to children and all the horror the horror

and just in case

[Bobbie Jo]

68. Magically delicious!

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[Swede Atlanta]

65. I tell you these conservatives, especially the fake Christians are......

sexual perverts. First of all if you are so offended then don't buy the burger. Secondly if the first thing that comes to mind for you when the name of the burger (likely for the month of June which is gay pride month) is the Proud burger with a colorful wrapper is two dudes getting it on you have serious problems with your sexuality.

What if they celebrated weddings with a nuptials burger. Would that conjure up visions of a dude slamming it to a woman? I doubt that.

These people don't get it that being gay means you are physically and emotionally attracted to persons of your same gender. Yes you are going to have sex and hopefully lots of healthy, fulfilling ecstatic sex. But like all other couples most of your lives will be filled with the mundane - going to work, paying taxes, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, volunteering at your community center, etc.

These so-called Christians are perverts when the first thing they think of is two men having sex when presented with a campaign that celebrates the diversity of humanity and the pride and respect that all persons, gay and straight should receive.

[KamaAina]

66. Nope, nothing gay about a hamburger.

A piece of meat between two buns, often slathered with special sauce.

Nope, 100 percent all-'Merkin straight.

[jmowreader]

77. Especially THAT hamburger!

Turns out the only difference between a "proud whopper" and a "not-so-proud whopper" is the paper it's wrapped in.

[Warren DeMontague]

70. SPECIAL SAUCE

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[William769]

71. When I think of two guys having sex

All I can think about is a whopper!

[Eleanors38]

73. Got it confused with a Big Mac.

[Headdoc]

75. the 'proud whopper' people's reaction video clip -

O M G -
I about lost it when the counter person said to the patron "you can have it with or without meat - either way"....
Considering this whole brouhaha - THAT was hilarious....

[AllyCat]

78. Apparently, that's what this guy is thinking about

The rest of us will be thinking about lunch and good company.