WASHINGTON -- People For the American Way today urged schools to withstand pressure from the anti-gay American Family Association to drop out of an anti-bullying day organized by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The AFA has been pressuring schools to drop out of the Oct. 30 Mix It Up Day, in which children will be encouraged to sit with someone they don’t normally talk to at lunch, according to The New York Times. The AFA, which regularly pushes harmful anti-gay myths, claims that the anti-bullying day is meant to “promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools.”

I couldn't believe it when I first heard him say it. It was Tuesday afternoon and I was monitoring Bryan Fischer's American Family Radio show, a chore I begrudingly take on far more frequently than any LGBT people should have to. There, after hearing the AFA's most visible figure opine about Chick-fil-A for the umpteenth time and dream up new ways to verbally bully anyone who doesn't shun equality, Fischer dropped one of the most culturally insensitive attack lines I've heard from anyone on the other side of this debate. To wit: