Native American group: Bryan Fischer’s article “not worth dignifying”

Curious to learn how some Native American groups viewed the anti-Native American article penned Tuesday (now here) by the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, I contacted the Native American Rights Fund.  NARF advocates for Native American interests and is described on their website as

…the oldest and largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting and defending the rights of Indian tribes, organizations and individuals nationwide.

In his article, Fischer suggested that Native Americans were “morally disqualified” from maintaining their land due to depravity and failure to convert to Christianity. After reviewing the article, NARF’s spokesman, Ray Ramirez, sent this response.

NARF declines to comment because the article is not worth dignifying with a reply.

Of course, this is more than a “no comment.” On one hand it is not worth dignifying with a reply. Fischer’s article is historically challenged and uber-offensive. One of AFA’s other columnists, 17 year old Elijah Friedeman posted a column criticizing Fischer’s views (you’ll have to read it on Friedeman’s blog since it has been removed from AFA’s).

Native Americans were so immoral that they deserved what happened to them? I find the idea repulsive.

Yesterday, Bryan Fischer posted a blog about how American indians disqualified themselves from any claim to land in America by their sexual immorality and violence. I want to officially reject and distance myself from that viewpoint.

On the other hand, the source of these views is what has raised the profile. Another Native American leader who did not want to be quoted expressed hope that Mr. Fischer’s views are not true of most Christians. However, what is stunning is that we are here dealing with an organization in the AFA that is considered mainstream by so many GOP politicians and which is making a serious bid to split the conservative world.

You can watch Fischer in action here appealing to Jefferson, Washington and the Old Testament for his supremacist views. Obviously, the Founders got a lot right, but they were fallible men and were wrong at times.

UPDATE: Fischer’s article has been removed from the AFA website (2/10) and another website where he blogs. However, you can read it in the Google cache for now and here permanently. I wonder if he will explain why it was taken down.

The response even on the AFA website was intense and negative. I did not get a copy of all of the comments, but this blogger did. AFA must have taken the column down quietly with hope it would all go away. Taking it down just looks like damage control unless they actually say something about it.

6 thoughts on “Native American group: Bryan Fischer’s article “not worth dignifying””

  1. David – Welcome to my world.

    I think instead of a Tea Party, we need a We Party. All of us who somewhere nearer the middle on a variety of issues but who also believe the first principles are important to guide public policy.

    Wishing to live longer, I am not holding my breath.

    As I watch some of the GOP potentials, I get a little hopeful with a guy like Mitch Daniels, but time will tell.

  2. you know Warren I am becoming increasingly concerned. I am a Republican, I have been my adult live. That is not to say that I haven’t vote for a Democrat before, however, I am quickly getting to the place where I can no longer vote for a Republican, but the Democrats are just as bad for us overall to the other way. I really don’t know what to do anymore.

    David

  3. Warren…. David – Welcome to my world.

    I think instead of a Tea Party, we need a We Party. All of us who somewhere nearer the middle on a variety of issues but who also believe the first principles are important to guide public policy.

    Wishing to live longer, I am not holding my breath.

    As I watch some of the GOP potentials, I get a little hopeful with a guy like Mitch Daniels, but time will tell.

    What the….? At least one more step to the dark side!

    I wish I could be with you on Mitch Daniels but his idea of lowering taxes is to allow them to skyrocket to levels better than double that of his democratic predecessors (speaking of property taxes here) and then call his legislation that freezes taxes at that higher level a tax cut. It may have been for some – mostly for homeowners in some respects – but not for those who who primarily own farmlands. What I now pay a year in property taxes in some years I’m not lucky enough to net that amount in crops. And then comes the income taxes, not just federal and state but the county takes a percentage. At least I get to take my state property tax off my income for the state and counyt income taxes.

    BTW…. that was me not dignifying Fischer’s article with a direct comment.

    😉

  4. Warren…. David – Welcome to my world.

    I think instead of a Tea Party, we need a We Party. All of us who somewhere nearer the middle on a variety of issues but who also believe the first principles are important to guide public policy.

    Wishing to live longer, I am not holding my breath.

    As I watch some of the GOP potentials, I get a little hopeful with a guy like Mitch Daniels, but time will tell.

    What the….? At least one more step to the dark side!

    I wish I could be with you on Mitch Daniels but his idea of lowering taxes is to allow them to skyrocket to levels better than double that of his democratic predecessors (speaking of property taxes here) and then call his legislation that freezes taxes at that higher level a tax cut. It may have been for some – mostly for homeowners in some respects – but not for those who who primarily own farmlands. What I now pay a year in property taxes in some years I’m not lucky enough to net that amount in crops. And then comes the income taxes, not just federal and state but the county takes a percentage. At least I get to take my state property tax off my income for the state and counyt income taxes.

    BTW…. that was me not dignifying Fischer’s article with a direct comment.

    😉

  5. David – Welcome to my world.

    I think instead of a Tea Party, we need a We Party. All of us who somewhere nearer the middle on a variety of issues but who also believe the first principles are important to guide public policy.

    Wishing to live longer, I am not holding my breath.

    As I watch some of the GOP potentials, I get a little hopeful with a guy like Mitch Daniels, but time will tell.

  6. you know Warren I am becoming increasingly concerned. I am a Republican, I have been my adult live. That is not to say that I haven’t vote for a Democrat before, however, I am quickly getting to the place where I can no longer vote for a Republican, but the Democrats are just as bad for us overall to the other way. I really don’t know what to do anymore.

    David

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