A radio ministry that referenced homosexuality, Islam AND the Bible in one statement is to mainstream reporters like blood in the water to sharks, and the result is that a legal action is prepared over the characterization – or mischaracterization as a jury may ultimately determine – of the comments from Bradlee Dean of YouCanRunButYouCannotHideInternational.
His ministry in the past has attracted the praise of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is leading the race for the GOP nomination for president in at least one major poll, and it was on its Sons of Liberty radio broadcast that Dean was preaching about the problems with America and its abandonment of many of the rules of life from the Bible.
But Dean explained that his words were outrageously distorted by pro-gay reporters who listened, and other reporters who knowingly republished these distortions. At this point this snowball republication allegedly was false and misleading and included an on-air condemnation from
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow that an attorney says clearly misrepresents the meaning and intent. The result could be a legal action, according to Larry Klayman, the government watchdog attorney who founded Judicial Watch and now is working with Freedom Watch.
In referencing the comments from Dean, Maddow said, "Foreign enemies rising up against America because Christians aren't doing the job of killing the gays."
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She featured on her program a quote from Dean, "The Muslims are calling for the execution of homosexuals in America. This was just released yesterday and it shows you that 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's an abomination. If America won't enforce the laws, God will raise up a foreign enemy to do just that."
But that was an edited version of Dean's original message, which was a benign warning to the homosexual community that the Bible calls the behavior a sin and there are consequences for sin, so they should "flee" from that. Dean explains he was only trying to guilt the Christian community to take the radical leftist homosexual agenda more seriously.
According to Dean's ministry, his actual statement was:
Muslims are calling for the execution for homosexuals in America, this was just released yesterday and it shows you that they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible, the Judeo Christian God. 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. And I continually reach out to the homosexual communities on this radio show, and I warn them, which ones love? Here you have Obama condemning it behind the backs of the homosexuals but to their faces he's promoting it. I say this to my gay friends out there the ones that continuously nitpick everything I say. Hollywood is promoting immorality and the God of the Heavens in Jesus names is warning you to flee from the wrath to come, yet you have Muslims calling for your execution. If America won't enforce the laws, God will raise up a foreign enemy to do just that's what you're seeing in America today. Read Leviticus 26 America.
Klayman told WND that the original misapplication of the comments came through writer Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent, where he headlined a story "GOP-linked punk rock ministry says executing gays is 'moral'."
The ministry wrote to the newspaper to correct the impression and Birkey noted Dean's statement that, "We have specifically rejected, as all Christians do, the Islamic doctrine, and actual practice, of executing homosexuals. But some have claimed, in effect, that by merely mentioning the execution of homosexuals (as a criminal practice of Islam), on our radio broadcast, we have suggested it for consideration. Obviously this is absurd. The whole point was to contrast the Islamic position with the Christian position. This may not have been as clear as we would have otherwise planned it to be. Live radio is not scripted. But everyone who knows us knows that this is our position because we have stated it consistently for years…"
But since the original statement, the Independent report, and its followup, Klayman noted, the original accusation has spread. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune explained Dean's comments were "read as advocating executions for gay people," KARE Television commented on his "controversial statements about gay persons," and on the City Pages said Dean "has praised religious extremists who execute suspected homosexuals."
ABC jumped into the fray with the blog comment that Dean "has suggested homosexuals be executed."
Activist sites from as Rightwingwatch took it even further, saying that Dean statements include "that Muslim nations that execute gays are more moral than American Christians."
State Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party Rep. Karen Clark accused Dean of saying that "extremists who call for the execution of American gays are morally justified."
Then comes Maddow.
On her first statements on the dispute, she edited the radio audio so that some of Dean's explanation was left out. She did, however, read a brief statement from the ministry offering an affirmation that, "We have never and will never call for the execution of homosexuals."
However, during her second report on the issue, she does not include anything like that, simply stating, in reference to Dean's beliefs, "Foreign enemies rising up against America because Christians aren't doing the job of killing the gays."
Klayman told WND that Maddow’s statement both defames and holds his clients in false light.
'What they do is egregious. They printed up without anybody asking us any questions their statements that we're accused of wanting to kill homosexuals.”
A WND request to Maddow's program for a comment did not generate a response.
A spokesman for the ministry told WND that Bachmann, whose strong stance on traditional biblical, family and marriage values has raised the ire of left-leaning reporters and activists alike, has appeared at You Can Run events before. Other candidates, likewise, have appeared at events held by the organization at times.
The ministry explained that it was the Minnesota Independent's interest in Bachmann's beliefs about the ministry that drew attention in the first place, appearing at an event where she was scheduled to speak.
Klayman confirmed that a legal action is being prepared regarding these statements, which will be filed in the near future.
You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International was founded by Dean, and it has reached more than 500,000 young people with a message of truth and hope across the country. His message focuses on basic constitutional issues. He's also spoken at churches, festivals, prisons, detention centers and on radio and television programs.
Dean also is drummer for the second-best unsigned band in the nation called Junkyard Prophet, whose music videos have reached 111 million households four times over internationally and debuted on JCTV as third in the United States. Junkyard Prophet has sold over 40,000 albums in the Minneapolis area alone. Bradlee is endorsed by world-class companies such as Sonor, Buttkickers, Beatnik (including his own signature drum pad), Hornet Drumsticks (including his own signature sticks), and Soultone Cymbals.
The antagonism against Dean heated up again in just the last few weeks after he, by invitation, delivered a prayer to open the House session at the Minnesota Legislature.
The Associated Press accused Dean of making "derogatory remarks about gay people," though Dean’s prayer made no reference to homosexuality.
The AP explained how the House in Minnesota instructs ministers on the content of their prayers, saying they must be "ecumenical" as well as "interfaith."
Dean acknowledged that his prayer was not on behalf of any denomination, but instead was on behalf of Christians. "The head of the denomination is Jesus as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged," he said.
Finally Dean concluded by stating he believes he is being unfairly used as a scapegoat by elements of the radical leftist gay community, such as Rachel Maddow, to harm the presidential campaign of Michele Bachmann.