https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Boykin
William Gerald "Jerry" Boykin (born April 19, 1948) is a retired American lieutenant general who was the United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under President George W. Bush from 2002 to 2007. During his 36-year career in the military he spent 13 years in the Delta Force and was involved in numerous high-profile missions, including
the 1980 Iran hostage rescue attempt,
the 1992 hunt for Pablo Escobar in Colombia,
and the Black Hawk Down incident in Mogadishu, Somalia.
He is currently executive vice president at the Family Research Council.
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an October 2003 speech to a community church in Oregon, Boykin was recorded stating that Islamic extremists hate the United States "because we're a Christian nation,
because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christians. ... And the enemy is a guy named Satan. "
President George W. Bush distanced himself from the statements,
saying that Boykin didn't "reflect my point of view or the point of view of this administration."
"As a Christian,
I believe that there is a spiritual war that is continuous as articulated in the Bible.
It is not confined to the war of terrorism."
"Boykin then requested an investigation by an inspector general into the allegations.
A ten-month investigation carried out by the Department of Defense concluded in August 2004 that Boykin had broken three rules in giving the speeches."
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Alluding to a biblical passage in which Jesus says, "I came not to bring peace but to bring a sword", Boykin said,
"I believe now that the sword he'll be carrying when he comes back is an AR-15."
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Jews are the "cause of all the problems in the world", which the Southern Poverty Law Center characterized as "an awkward attempt at humor".
During that speech, he also asserted President Barack Obama had sent "subliminal messages" to Muslims during his 2009 A New Beginning speech in Cairo.
During the 2016 presidential election campaign, Boykin first advised Sen. Ted Cruz.
Then, on September 6, 2016, he endorsed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The Family Research Council (FRC) is an American evangelical activist group and think-tank with an affiliated lobbying organization. FRC promotes what it considers to be family values.
It opposes and lobbies against:
access to pornography,
embryonic stem-cell research,
abortion,
divorce,
and LGBT rights—such as anti-discrimination laws,
same-sex marriage,
same-sex civil unions,
and LGBT adoption
The FRC has been criticized by media sources and professional organizations such as the American Sociological Association for using "anti-gay pseudoscience" to falsely conflate homosexuality and pedophilia, and falsely to claim that the children of same-sex parents suffer from more mental health problems.
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Some odd coincidence; "Boykins."
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