[5] Fischer's comments about homosexuality caused the AFA to be designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in November 2010.
[9] Fischer has said that welfare has "destroyed the African-American family"[10] by "offering financial rewards to women who have more children out of wedlock" thereby incentivizing "fornication rather than marriage" creating "disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.
"[11] The AFA has repudiated the characterisation of minorities as "people who rut like rabbits,"[7] as well as the view that immigration should be restricted because Hispanics are "socialist by nature" and vote Democratic because it allows them to "benefit from the plunder of the wealth of the United States.
"[19] MormonVoices, a group associated with Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research, included Fischer on its Top Ten Anti-Mormon Statements of 2011 list for saying "Mormonism is not an orthodox Christian faith.
"[7] In 2018 he wrote about the "dangerous trend" of Muslims running for political office in the United States, calling Islam a "scourge" and "the Ebola virus of culture".
[4][22][23][24][25] In 2007, Fischer hosted an event with former American Family Association California leader Scott Lively[26][27] to promote the view that "homosexuality was at the heart of Nazism,"[28] a claim which is rejected by historians.
"I was surprised that they completely lied about what Mix It Up Day is", Maureen Costello, the director of the center's Teaching Tolerance project, which organizes the program, told The New York Times: "It was a cynical, fear-mongering tactic.
"[37] In October, Fischer was taken off air during a CNN interview with Carol Costello for repeating his belief that "Hitler recruited homosexuals around him to make up his Stormtroopers".
[53] In March 2013, Fischer compared homosexuality to bank robbery when Senator Portman announced his views on same-sex marriage had changed due to having a gay son.
[63] In order to avoid being categorised as a hate group, the AFA issued a press release denouncing some of Fischer's views, rejecting his claim that Hillary Clinton is a lesbian, and stating: "AFA rejects the statement by Bryan Fischer that, 'Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews.'
"[7][64] When the Supreme Court ruled on Obergefell v. Hodges on June 26, 2015, Fischer described it as an "a date which will live in infamy", tweeting that "6/26 is now our 9/11" and "the day the twin towers of truth and righteousness were blown up by moral jihadists.
[77][78] In the June 18, 2012 issue of The New Yorker magazine ("Bully Pulpit"),[79] author Jane Mayer featured Fischer in an article describing his influence in the Republican Party and 2012 presidential election.
On April 20, Fischer attacked Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney's national security spokesman Richard Grenell for being openly gay.
[80] During the 2012 presidential primaries, Republican Party candidates Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and Tim Pawlenty were guests on Fischer's show, but Romney was not invited.
Fischer believes that sexual orientation is "always a matter of choice", and strongly opposes what he calls the "morally and intellectually bankrupt theory of evolution".