Bradlee Dean: A week before House prayer, Zellers asked to be on my radio show
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 11:48 am
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Controversial preacher Bradlee Dean says that House Speaker Kurt Zellers asked to appear on Dean’s radio show, the Sons of Liberty, the week before Dean gave a controversial prayer before the Minnesota House. Dean’s claim stands in stark contrast to Zeller’s words condemning Dean, as well as House leadership’s insistence that they weren’t familiar with Dean. Dean made his statement as part of a media blitz of more than two dozen radio stations where he defended his prayer and blamed “homosexual activists” for the controversy which continues to simmer. Zellers says Dean’s claim is not true.
On the Global Freedom Report last week, Dean was flummoxed about why Zellers condemned his prayer. Zellers told members of the House that he “denounced” Dean and that allowing him to pray was a mistake.
“I was actually denounced by Kurt Zellers, the Speaker of the House, and why he denounced me nobody knows. I have no idea,” Dean said. “What I do know, he doesn’t know me, and the week prior to that he was asking to be on our radio show here in Minneapolis.”
He added, “So we are all kind of taken back. As a matter of fact we have done 21 interviews from coast to coast and every show host has asked me the question, ‘What was the problem?’ And we are still asking the same question.”
Radio host Brent Johnson added, “Go ahead and invite him, after the fact, invite him on your show. Maybe he’ll answer.”
A spokesperson for Zellers’ office says Zellers never attempted to go on Dean’s show. Update: “Speaker Zellers did not ask to be on Bradlee Dean’s radio show,” Jodi Boyne, director of public affairs for the Minnesota House Republican Caucus, told the Minnesota Independent.
Dean has appeared on a two dozen conservative radio stations to defend himself, the prayer and especially Dean’s remarks about gays and lesbians in the last few weeks.
On HOPE FM 95.9, a Christian station in Forest Lake, Dean said he wasn’t targeting Obama when he said, “It’s not about the Baptists and it’s not about the Catholics alone or the Lutherans or the Wesleyans. Or the Presbyterians, the Evangelicals, or any other denomination, the head of the denomination and His name is Jesus, as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged, and we pray it in Jesus’ name.”
“I never meant to take a shot at Obama,” he said. “I’m not going to play your little political games. If you look at my prayer, in no sense of the word can you derive disrespect anywhere.”
He added, “If you want to split hairs, strain at the gnat and swallow the camel.”
He said it was Obama who said the United States was not a Christian nation.
On the overtly Christian nature of his prayer, Dean said, “We are not a Muslim nation. We are not a Buddhist nation. We are a Christian nation. We have to understand it’s not all of the religions of the world, that this is everybody’s country? No. When you go to Washington, D.C., Moses and the Ten Commandments are everywhere.”
Here’s part one of the interview:
And part two:
On the Joe Pags Show out of Houston, Tex., Dean said he never suggested that Obama wasn’t a Christian. “There was no implication on my part. I wasn’t taking a shot at Obama,” said Dean. “If you listen to the entirety of my prayer, I was unifying.”
He then said that American soldiers did not die for Americans who were not Christians.
“What did our military boys and girls die for? Did they die for other religions? Or did they die to uphold for the Constitution, so help me God? If we have foreign gods come in here, then what’s going to happen is everyone is going to want to implement their law. For example, the Muslims want to implement Shari [sic] law. Why? Because they think they have a right to do it. No, they don’t. Foreign people can come here and they are afforded asylum, but we serve the lord of lords, king of kings. They cannot continuously bring in their gods into our country and expect us to remain who we are as a people. We have to stand. We have to protect who we are as a people.”
Here’s part one of the interview:
Here’s the second half of the interview:
On the Shilling Show in Virginia, Dean told host Rob Schilling that “homosexual communities” were out to get him.
“How did we go from what I said in the prayer to ‘big bad Brad the anti-gay hate-monger,’ as they like to say. It’s not anti-gay. It’s anti-crime and pro-family. And it’s not bigotry, it’s decency,” he said. “My perspective is it’s character assassination by the homosexual communities, no ifs, ands or buts about it.”
He added, “We are turning into hell in this country.”
Here’s the interview:
WCCO’s Chad Hartman was the only interviewer to challenge Dean’s statements about gays and lesbian. He asked about one of Dean’s more incendiary quotes:
“Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America. This just shows you they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian God, but they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination.”
Dean said he was simply warning LGBT people about Muslims.
“I’m warning the homosexual communities that the Muslims are calling for your execution,” he said. “They took what I said and they turned it up on its head, and they’ve been on attack ever since. I’ve debunked it, I’ve debunked it, and I’ve debunked it.”
Hartman then asked, “Did you also say that ‘gays will molest 117 people before they are found out?‘”
Dean said, “I was referring to pedophiles.”
“It was very clear you were talking about gays,” Hartman shot back. “Did you say that inaccurately? Should you have said pedophiles?”
Dean responded, “What I am saying is what I just told you, and I am referring from Dr. Paul Cameron’s quotes, his statistics.”
He added, “Why is the homosexual communities defensive about it unless it does concern pedophiles?”
Here’s the interview:
Part 2:
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Comment posted June 21, 2011 @ 1:31 pm
“We are turning into hell in this country,” says Bradlee Dean, and he eagerly leads the way.
Comment posted June 21, 2011 @ 1:36 pm
How can you believe a word that falls out of his mouth.
Comment posted June 21, 2011 @ 2:11 pm
He added, “Why is the homosexual communities defensive about it unless it does concern pedophiles?”
Why should you be defensive about being called a thief unless you’re a thief? Why should anyone be defensive about being called a liar unless they’re lying? Why is Dean defensive about being called a lying bigoted jerk unless it does concern being a lying bigoted jerk?
Keep talking Dean. You’ll end up recording the DFL’s campaign ads.
Comment posted June 21, 2011 @ 4:04 pm
So Zellers lets Dean do his prayer, then expunges the record for lack of a quorum, which begs the question why had the Dean prayer commenced in the absence of a quorum.
And now Dean implies Zellers is a liar about requesting to be on the radio, and Zellers implies Dean is a liar and never requested being on the radio.
Getting hard to track the lies and prevarications. This is almost as tough as following Sen. Limmer the master prevaricator.
And then there was the Sutton letter in the Strib today where the failed burrito king argued how resplendent economics were versus accounting. And accounting was the favorite sleight of Slapshot Pawlenty.
It is truly getting to be a carnival with these guys.
“Step right up, it walks, it talks, it crawls on its belly like a reptile!”
Jeff Wilfahrt, Rosemount, MN
Comment posted June 21, 2011 @ 10:12 pm
Hey, I like Zellers. He still gets his haircuts back home in ND
Comment posted June 22, 2011 @ 4:15 am
It’s hard to decide which lying sack to believe. How can I choose. And why should I try?
What I believe is that the republicans had to have known what Dean is all about, the party has his fingerprints (schmooze-wise) all over it. I also see no reason to believe that the date of his appearance was any kind of a coincidence. They got called on it, and “erased the tape”.
Comment posted June 22, 2011 @ 8:45 am
What’d I tell you, Paul Cameron, the peer-repudiated and discredited quack, Paul Cameron. After six other psychologists complained that he had deliberately misrepresented of their work in his anti-gay writings, the American Psychological Association (APA) began an investigation. They finally notified him on December 2, 1983, that the board voted to drop him from the membership “for lack of cooperation with the Committee on Scientific and Professional Ethics and Conduct.”6 In Dr. Cameron’s rebuttal posted on his web site, he said he had already resigned from the APA on November 7, and that his resignation was accepted.7 But like most professional organizations, the APA cannot accept the resignation of a member while he is under investigation. This is a very common rule, meant to prevent a member from short-circuiting an ethics investigation. Meanwhile, the APA has taken extraordinary measures to disassociate themselves from him.
But none of this fazed Dr. Cameron. When he misused Dr. A Nicolas Groth’s research in a pamphlet entitled “Child Molestation and Homosexuality,” Dr. Groth wrote the Nebraska Board of Examiners of Psychologists on August 21, 1984 that Dr. Cameron:
[Dr. Cameron] misrepresents my findings and distorts them to advance his homophobic views. I make a very clear distinction in my writing between pedophilia and homosexuality, noting that adult males who sexually victimize young boys are either pedophilic or heterosexual, and that in my research I have not found homosexual men turning away from adult partners to children.
I consider this totally unprofessional behavior on the part of Dr. Cameron and I want to bring this to your attention. He disgraces his profession.8
This led the Nebraska Psychological Association to pass a resolution on October 19, 1984, saying that it “formally disassociates itself from the representations and interpretations of scientific literature offered by Dr. Paul Cameron in his writing and public statement on sexuality.”9
After that, it appears that Dr. Cameron switched from calling his research “psychology” to calling it “sociology.” This prompted the American Sociological Association in 1985 to pass a resolution saying, “Dr. Paul Cameron has consistently misinterpreted and misrepresented sociological research on sexuality, homosexuality, and lesbianism.”10 When that didn’t deter him, the ASA went further in August of 1986, saying, “The American Sociological Association officially and publicly states that Paul Cameron is not a sociologist, and condemns his consistent misrepresentation of sociological research.” BTB
Comment posted June 22, 2011 @ 10:02 am
I wonder if Bradlee Dean believes in Science at all? He quotes Paul Cameron who was debunked years ago….
I’d like to know what Dean thinks of the latest study to come out May 31st of this year by leading Neurologists stating that sexual orientation is NOT a choice but neurological from birth!
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/226963.php
Comment posted June 22, 2011 @ 4:59 pm
Dan,
Dean doe NOT do science. He’s a total creationist/ID’iot.
Dean also had Paul Cameron as a guest on his radio program. Asked him a boatload of softball questions.
Comment posted June 22, 2011 @ 7:58 pm
What an absolute PUKE!!! Holy shit almighty is this what Minnesotans are actually like?!? I haven’t heard rhetoric like that since 1930′s Germany!!
Comment posted June 23, 2011 @ 8:28 am
hmmm, who’s LYING – the Politican or the Fake paster/DJ? LOL
Comment posted June 23, 2011 @ 3:23 pm
Given that so many GOP’ers have denied actions, only to have their actions become public at an in-opportune moment…even though I find Dean repulsive, it is my opinion that there is some modicum of truth to his statement about Zellars wanting to visit his show. Once the bad publicity surrounding Dean’s horrific display at the capital (at the invitation of one of the GOP members) it is only in Zellars camp and best political interest to deny any association with Dean. I also find it ironic that a blogger would suggest Dean who is probably card carrying member of the GOP, would be a spokes person for the DFL. It is typical of anyone affiliated with the GOP or their ideology – deny any responsibility for your actions and always blame the other guy for any wrong doing to take the focus of what you are doing behind the backs of the public.
Comment posted July 3, 2011 @ 5:19 pm
When is Michele Bachmann’s support for Dean going to make it into the national media dialog?
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