“We Serve Bacon in Our Restaurants for One Reason: We Are a Christian Nation. Not a Jewish of Islamic One. QED.”

Thus proclaimeth Bryan Fischer, whose Twitter bio reads
“Director of Issue Analysis, American Family Association [AFA];
Host of Focal Point radio program on AFR Talk network; Tweets are
my own.”

The AFA bills
itself “as one of the largest and most effective pro-family
organizations in the country with hundreds of thousands of
supporters..” It was started in 1977 by Donald Wildmon as the
National Federation for Decency. Wildmon, now retired, and the AFA
are probably best known for culture war battles involving Andres
“Piss Christ” Serrano and Robert Mapplethorpe, but also memorably
accused
Mighty Mouse of snorting cocaine in the form of flower petals
back in 1988.

For the record, I eat bacon because I like the way it
tastes. Sure, like everyone else who was raised Christian, at first
I ate it just as a screw-you to the other Abrahamic religions. But
nowadays, that’s less important to me…

Hat tip: Yair
Rosenburg (follow him on Twitter).

Back in 2008, when Reason TV reported on the Batte of the Bacon
Dogs in Los Angeles, we didn’t appreciate the theological
dimensions of the struggle. Instead, we chronicled the struggle of
Elizabeth Palacios, a vendor who ended up spending 45 days in jail
(!) for daring to sell tasty treats without all the proper
licensing. Check out Drew Carey on the beat and meet one of the
greatest villains in all of Reason TV’s history: an Los Angeles
County Health Department official who is the Blofeld of
bummerdom: