Bradlee Dean talks Tom Emmer, Rachel Maddow and Target

Bradlee Dean

Bradlee Dean, front man for You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International ministries, lashed out at critics on Saturday, saying “homosexuals” are lying about his past statements and that he has no relationship with GOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer. He criticized Target for apologizing after making a campaign donation to MN Forward and chastised MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for a recent segment she did on Dean. He also demanded that “homosexuals” get their “hands off the kids.”

“Target apologized for something that never happened,” Dean told listeners of his Sons of Liberty radio show. “Let me ask you something, folks. Why did Target apologize? They apologized to them that are going after your children through an illegal agenda called gay marriage.”

He continued, “You see no longer was it, ‘Kill the bigot, bad Bradlee,’ now it was they were going after Tom Emmer for gay marriage. Wait a second. Tom is standing on principle. He’s operating according to our constitution and law.”

Bradlee then said that homosexuals have lied about his statements.

“You started this fight; now you get to pick all the dung off your faces, folks, because it’s all over this agenda,” he said. “There’s nothing they have said that’s been true, nothing’s been based in fact, nor have I ever been contacted, never, not once.”

Of Rachel Maddow’s show, Dean said, “They took me and created me as ‘kill the gays bigot’ and then linked Tom Emmer together and smeared Tom Emmer.”

Dean also demanded that gays and lesbians stay away from children.

“And I say to the homosexual communities, I love you enough to tell you the truth, but you better get off the kids because, America, they are after your kids. That’s what it is about,” he said. “Get your hands off those kids, and I’m not asking. I’m telling you to get your hands off those kids, because there’s people all over the country standing up because they are seeing the real intent as to what is going on.”

Emmer’s state House campaign donated to Dean’s organization, and Emmer attended You Can Run’s 2009 fundraiser. More recently, Emmer praised the “nice people” behind the group, even after Dean praised Muslim countries who call for the execution of gays as “more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination.”

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