The American Family Association, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has identified as a hate group, has paid for an expensive 9-day visit to Israel for 60 members of the Republican National Committee, according to Haaretz, Israeli’s oldest daily newspaper (est. 1918).
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/.premium-1.639330
AFA’s chief spokesperson, Bryan Fischer, is notorious for his incendiary remarks against gays and minorities. He’s claimed black people “rut like rabbits” and Hispanics are “socialists by nature,” blamed Adolf Hitler on homosexuals, called Hillary Clinton a lesbian, and claims First Amendment religious freedom rights apply only to Christians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association
Listening to Fischer, you understand where the religious wars that have plagued so much of human history came from. But the GOP doesn’t seem to have any qualms about associating with such a group.