Bryan the Meddler

Bryan Fischer is notorious for making grand pronouncements and vast generalizations of dubious validity. Virtually every fact or statistic that spews from his lips is sullied with bias and agenda. This truism notwithstanding, occasionally Fischer makes a declaration so inexplicably absurd that it makes one wonder whether he might need his head checked.

Last week Bryan declared that liberals are more repressive than conservatives and that ‘the basic instinct of the conservative is to be left alone, while the basic instinct of the liberal is to meddle.’

The editors concede that, upon a time, classical conservatives embraced a ‘live and let live’ attitude. But how can Fischer don this mantle when the sole purpose of the Idaho Values Alliance is to meddle in the affairs of others? How can Fischer possess ‘an instinct … to be left alone’ while simultaneously shoving his snout into some aspect of the life of virtually every Idahoan?

At any given stage Bryan has championed restrictive legislation or policies affecting a range of individuals including: pregnant women, children seeking immunizations, children attending public schools, teenagers in need of candid sex education, individuals seeking contraception, individuals engaging in sex, students and teachers who expect science to be taught in science class, individuals who exercise their First Amendment rights, judges who discharge their duties with requisite probity, couples seeking divorce, and even those who, according to Fischer, use the wrong toilet at Boise State University.

To produce an exhaustive list of Fischer’s meddling would be a Sisyphean task; indeed we remain skeptical that it can be achieved at all.

Instead we pose the question, when doesn’t Bryan meddle?