#2660: Rob Chambers

The American Family Association is among the more significant extremist hate groups in the US, and Rob Chambers is vice president of a division called AFA Action. His public rants and outcries are rather predictable, usually issuing urgent warnings about impending doom if political decisions are madethat don’t promote his and his group’s theocratic vision for America.

 

And when decisions he doesn’t like are made, Chambers’ go-to target of blame is, of course, Satan. Satan is behind LGBT rights, abortion rights, immigration reform and what have you. “This is spiritual warfare,” said Chambers, addressing criticism of a North Carolina anti-LGBT law: “I believe the media, Hollywood, they understand what this bill, or new law, actually does but they are distorting it because that’s the only way that Satan plays and Satan will try to attempt to win is through deceit and deception.” It can’t be mere disagreement; Chambers seems relatively unable to entertain the idea that someone can come to different conclusions than himself without being deceived by Satan.

 

Chambers has otherwise promoted 2020 election conspiracies, being for instance a signatory to a Council for National Policy letter urging state legislatures to discard democracy and ensure that Trump continue as presidents, referring to laughable conspiracy theories and unnamed sources (Cleta Mitchell – no wonder they didn’t mention names) to claim that Trump was the legitimate winner. He was also a signatory, together with a cast of usual suspects, of a letter urging Biden to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci, based on a combination of unproven conspiracy theories and deliberate misunderstanding of facts (some details here).

 

Diagnosis: Idiot. We’ll keep it brief.