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  3. Bryan Fischer, in Tupelo, Mississippi. Soon after Fischer criticized Mitt Romney’s campaign for hiring an openly gay spokesman,

Bryan Fischer, in Tupelo, Mississippi. Soon after Fischer criticized Mitt Romney’s campaign for hiring an openly gay spokesman,

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问题     Bryan Fischer, in Tupelo, Mississippi. Soon after Fischer criticized Mitt Romney’s campaign for hiring an openly gay spokesman, the spokesman resigned.
    Tupelo, Mississippi, is best known as the birthplace of Elvis Presley, and his childhood home remains the town’s top attraction. Another local performer, however, has recently garnered national attention. For two hours every weekday, a broadcaster named Bryan Fischer hosts "Focal Point," a popular Christian radio talk show. He is one of the country’s most vocal opponents of what he calls "the homosexual-rights movement." As he puts it, "A rational culture that cares about its people will, in fact, discriminate against adultery, pedophilia, rape, bestiality, and, yes, homosexual behavior." His goal is to make this view the official stance of the Republican Party.
    In April, Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, hired an openly gay man, Richard Grenell, to serve as his campaign’s national-security spokesman. The next day, Fischer launched a public attack on Grenell, a Republican foreign-policy expert who had previously worked as the spokesman for John Bolton, President George W. Bush’s Ambassador to the United Nations. Fischer had no argument with Grenell’s political views, which are consistently hawkish. The problem was his sex life: gay men, Fischer said, have "random, frequent, and anonymous sexual encounters—that becomes a significant issue when we talk about appointing somebody to a post as sensitive as the spokesman for national security." After other conservative pundits took up Fischer’s cause, Grenell resigned from the Romney campaign. The resulting controversy has helped make gay rights one of the defining social issues of the 2012 campaign.
    The one-story concrete building where Fischer works is indistinguishable from neighboring offices occupied by dentists, except that its front entrance features a statue of a fetus enshrined in a heart and a shoulder-high stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments. Inside, plaques bearing the words "In God We Trust" underscore that this is the national headquarters of the American Family Association, a nonprofit advocacy group. A "pro-family ministry" founded in 1977, it promotes Bible-based social conservatism and criticizes what it regards as sinful popular culture.
    Like much of the religious right, the A.F.A. was losing traction until Barack Obama was elected Presi-dent, in 2008. His victory galvanized the group. Its leaders saw Obama as a radical proponent of godless socialism. According to a former employee, staff members at the Tupelo office passed around an image of Obama’s face blended with that of Adolf Hitler, against a backdrop of a swastika. The former employee, who found the image disrespectful, recalls, "Things really took a turn. They were no longer civil about the opposition. The goal became to defeat Obama." In 2009, the A.F.A. hired Fischer as its director of issue analysis and as the host of "Focal Point," which is broadcast from a studio across the street.
    The American Family Association’s radio network comprises two hundred stations in thirty-five states, and Fischer’s program reaches more than a million listeners a day. That’s a fraction of Rush Limbaugh’s audience, but as large as that of Rachel Maddow or Chris Matthews, on MSNBC. Until recently, Fischer’s rising popularity escaped notice in the mainstream media, in part because his show is broadcast primarily on stations in the Southeast and the Midwest, including small cities such as Tullahoma, Tennessee, and Pig-gott, Arkansas. But his program is part of a parallel media universe that provides news and commentary, on everything from science to American history, from a perspective that is far to the right of Fox News.
    Fischer is a tall man with a wide mouth, a prominent nose, a tanned face, and carefully groomed hair that is as white as a cotton ball. He is proud to be at the far end of the American political spectrum. When I visited his office, I asked him if he could name anyone who had more conservative social beliefs. "Well, Thomas Jefferson," he said. "He wanted to castrate homosexuals—I don’t want to do that." Fischer does, however, want to change homosexuals. "We’re not animals in heat that have a biological compulsion to yield to every sexual impulse," Fischer said. Gays, he said, can experience a "reorienting of their sexuality—it can be done. Like the saying goes, ’I’ve never met an ex-black, but I’ve met a lot of ex-gays.’ If one person can do it, two people can do it."
                                                From The New Yorker, June 13, 2012
Which one of the following statements is TRUE?
选项 A、Grenell was accuse of being arbitrary in sexual intercourse.
B、Fischer worked together with dentists.
C、The A.F.A.used to be in good terms with Obama.
D、Focal Point is as conservative as the Fox News.
答案A
解析 本题为细节题。选项A在第三段The problem was his sex life之后的内容中可以看到，是正确的；选项B从第四段可以看到，并不是和牙医共事，而是周围的邻居们主要是牙医；选项C从第五段可以看出，该组织只是自己被奥巴马的上任所激励，后来还转而反对奥巴马，并不代表他们和奥巴马关系友好；选项D从倒数第二段中可以看到Focal Point节目涉猎范围很广，但其立场甚至比福克斯新闻还保守，而不是类似。因此选A。
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