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Meet Bradlee Dean: Profile of Perfidy

Minnesota has seen the best and worst of its society in the debate of a constitutional amendment to limit marriage to heterosexual couples. The best was Sen. John Kiesel, who was a profile of courage. The worst was the pastor invited to give the opening prayer, Bradlee Dean, a profile of perfidy (as in a deliberate breach of faith when you agree to give a nondenominational prayer and then give a sectarian diatribe). Dean’s record of hateful and bigoted statements was well-known before he was invited to the legislature to start off the day of debate on the rights of homosexual citizens to marry.

Bradlee Dean is a Minnesota radio host who believes that homosexuality should be a crime. He sports a tattoo of Abraham sacrificing Isaac on his forearm and spews extreme interpretations of the Bible. He seems to cultivate the image of a bible-thumping Axel Rose and plays in a Christian rock band. He is the founder of You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International.

This historical sense seems as questionable as his biblical sense given his timeline running from World I to World II to “Korea and Iwo Jima and Vietnam.”

He then gives his view of

“It’s not about the Baptists, it’s not about the Catholics alone or the Lutherans or the Wesleyans or the Presbyterians, evangelicals or any other denomination, but rather the head of the denomination, and his name is Jesus, as every president up until 2008 has acknowledged.”

Of course, the reference to 2008 reference is to Barack Obama. Of course, nondenominational appears to exclude Jews, Muslims, and most of the world. He is able to tie in Obama as atheist or Muslim (he leaves this to the imagination of legislators). It is the type of speech that should have served to expose the intolerance and hatred that has become so prevalent in out society — even before the moving speech of Sen. Kiesel. Instead, members continued their push to deny marriage rights to gay couples.

Here is “Pastor” Dean at work on his radio show:

The person responsible for inviting Dean appears to be Rep. Ernie Leidiger, R-Mayer (left). Various members of both parties have denounced the prayer. Rep. Leidiger succeeded in introducing a uniquely intolerant voice in the legislature and uniting members of both two parties in their disgust for Dean and his message. It is hard, however, to blame Dean has been known as an unhinged extremist for years. The blame must fall on Leidiger who may need more time as a furniture salesman that selling religious bigot to the legislature. He previously ran on the pledge that his “conservative values” would bring “back to honesty and respect for constituents.” Well, it appears that would be respect for some constituents.

Kudos: Swarthmore Mom on passing along the Youtube video

Jonathan Turley

61 thoughts on “Meet Bradlee Dean: Profile of Perfidy”

  1. Pingback: Bradlee Dean, The UberDouche. « antichristianleague

  2. I’m glad that members of the Minnesota Legislature are concerned that the prayer they offer before the session should be all-inclusive. All those who worship deities are included, not just Christians. Great!

    I’d like to take this idea one step further. What about all the Minnesotans who aren’t deists? Aren’t those who don’t believe in invisible people, excluded by this prayer?

    Is Minnesota a theocracy? To whom, exactly, is the Legislature praying? To a deity who actually runs the state? Does this deity belong to the Executive, Legislative, or Judicial branch? Is this deity all-powerful? Why, then, do Minnesotans need a human-run state government? Can’t the deity just run things?

    All of my annoying questions can be rolled into one: Why is a secular government body, which purports to represent all citizens, regardless of religion or lack thereof, starting its proceedings with a prayer?

  3. Bradlee Dean fundraises off prayer fiasco – to hire publicist
    Controversial pastor garners support from conservative activist Sue Jeffers
    By Andy Birkey
    The Minnesota Independent
    http://minnesotaindependent.com/81951/bradlee-dean-fundraises-off-prayer-fiasco-to-hire-publicist

    Excerpt:
    Bradlee Dean, the controversial anti-gay preacher who gave the prayer for the Minnesota House on Friday, sent an email to supporters on Monday asking them for money so that his group, the You Can Run But You Cannot Hide ministry, can hire a publicist. Dean’s prayer sent shockwaves through the Legislature over the weekend after he took a dig at President Obama in his invocation and after revelations that he’s advocated for the imprisonment of gays and lesbians. In his fundraising email, Dean said he didn’t “start this fight,” but he’s willing to “respond.”

    “WOW! Did you ever think going to the Capitol to give a prayer paying homage to the Founders, the Veterans and Christ could be so offensive to our politicians?” he wrote in the email to supporters. “We certainly didn’t start this fight but we are more than willing to respond! Our small ministry team has been going non-stop the past 72 hours to not only defend the truth but to continue fighting for the foundation that made this nation so great.”

    He continued, “However, the liberal-biased media has taken this a step further and initiated a full-scale character assassination, attempting to inflict serious damage to the ministry and my reputation. While we are putting up a good defense with the resources we have readily available, we are in serious need of a publicist on a short-term basis.”

    He added, “We would ask that you please consider making a contribution today to help us acquire the various professional services we need to make sure these kind of attacks on our Biblical foundation will not continue. As you know, we solicit funds to create products with profound life-changing messages, like “My War.” However, this plea for support is different as we were not prepared for the expense of fighting for our God-given liberties in this manner :)”

  4. I’m with raff on that one.

    I was thinking of a word that rhymes with his first name.

  8. I see faux news?,is showing everything but the upset in upstate NY,they were showing Joplin Mo,where Cantor is playing politics.But no mention of that aspect of the story.

  11. raff, yes. NY 26 just went Dem. Kathy Hochul is the new Congresscritter from New York.

  17. the track suit is a new line called “jesus jerseys”

    they’re for the christian on the run

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