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Bradlee Dean

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Bradlee Dean attacks Dan Savage for calling parts of the Bible "bullshit"

    Bradlee Dean is on the offensive again, launching a vicious and inane attack on Dan Savage for being critical of the Bible. Savage spoke to high school students recently and talked about how it's possible to "ignore the bullshit" in the Bible about gay people "the same way we have learned to ignore ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    In St. Cloud, Bradlee Dean speaks to more protesters than supporters

    We hope it was worth it, St. Cloud State College Republicans.Thanks to your decision not to cancel Bradlee Dean's on-campus appearance last night, you may never have the opportunity to work for the MNGOP. Not only that, but the event itself turned out to be a embarrassing dud.According to the St. Cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    MNGOP tells St. Cloud State Repubs to cancel Bradlee Dean's appearance tonight, or else

    MNGOP leadership has issued a stern ultimatum to St. Cloud State College Republicans -- cancel Bradlee Dean's on-campus speaking engagement and concert, scheduled for tonight, or you'll have trouble finding Republican jobs in the future.While working for the MNGOP doesn't exactly sound like a sun-dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Bradlee Dean blasts MNGOP leadership, says party is run by "immoral people"

    Bradlee Dean isn't taking the news that MNGOP leadership is demanding St. Cloud State Republicans cancel his scheduled on-campus appearance lying down. Yesterday, on his radio show, Dean put the MNGOP on blast, saying that if he were a state Republican leader, he wouldn't want himself speaking to yo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Mary Franson upset by "offensive" anti-Gulf oil spill House prayer

    Rep. Mary Franson -- she of 'food stamp recipients are like wild animals' and Earth Day is a "Pagan holiday" fame -- may have outdone herself today with her reaction to House chaplain Rev. Grady St. Dennis' prayer.In commemoration of the second anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, Dennis prayed "for t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Trayvon Martin rally at U of M expects 5,000

    ​Jenny Belsito was outraged when she first heard the story of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed 17-year-old who was gunned down by a neighborhood watchman in Florida. The Metro State student threw up a Facebook page announcing a local One Million Hoodies march, the campaign named after Geraldo Rivera i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Trayvon Martin was "gang bangin'," says Bradlee Dean

    It seems like everyone has something to say about the Trayvon Martin killing. Last month, Martin, a 17-year-old from Florida, was fatally gunned down by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman. Martin was unarmed, unless you count a bag of Skittles and an Arizona Iced Tea. Zimmerman is calling ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Iowa not cool with Bradlee Dean's public school invasion

    ​Bradlee Dean has really screwed up the town of Dunkerton, Iowa. Dean and his Christian-rap-metal troupe, Junkyard Prophet, hosted a supposed "anti-bullying" assembly at the Dunkertown high school last week that literally left some of the kids in tears. Among the more controversial messages deliv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Bradlee Dean's troupe to Iowa public school: Homosexual lifestyle 'literally kills' gays [VIDEO]

    ​Bradlee Dean's Junkyard Prophet troupe is getting beaten up in the national press following an over-the-line presentation at the Dunkerton, Iowa public high school last week.Dean apparently gave a relatively uncontroversial presentation at the school about a decade ago, and was invited back to ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Perez Hilton to Minnesotans: Don't let Michele Bachmann "brainwash" you

    Perez Hilton stands with Minnesotans United for All Families.​Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton came out against Minnesota's gay marriage amendment this afternoon and took shots at Michele Bachmann on his blog. Hilton made a direct appeal to Minnesotans not to discriminate against gay people in our c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Bradlee Dean: Michele Bachmann smells like rancid cheese

    Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean: Friends no more?​Things are not looking good for Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign these days. Earlier this month, her entire New Hampshire staff jumped ship. Recent polls show she's slipped into a distant fourth place in the race for the nomination. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Rick Santorum and Bradlee Dean talked about gay sex last weekend

    Bradlee Dean, Rick Santorum: Track suit, empty suit.​Rick Santorum, the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, announces that he's running for president every few days, waiting for someone to finally notice. With Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain (Herman Cain!) vacuuming all the oxygen from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Bradlee Dean delighted by softball coverage in New York Times

    ​In the past, conservative pastor Bradlee Dean has been an outspoken critic of the media. Dean (real name Bradley Dean Smith) is even suing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and Minnesota Independent writer Andy Birkey for their coverage, accusing the two reporters of defaming him by taking an excerpt fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    New York Times goes soft on Bradlee Dean

    New York Times on Bradlee Dean​The New York Times has finally picked up the Bradlee Dean trail. This weekend, the Times published a story on Dean's relationship to presidential candidate Michele Bachmann. They even sprung to send reporter Serge F. Kolvaleski all the way out to Annandale to ge ... More >>

  • News

    September 7, 2011

    Amy Senser, Joe Senser's wife, sued for fatal hit-and-run

    Anousone Phanthavong family asks $50,000 in wrongful death

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Bradlee Dean on Andy Birkey: "He is trying to make me the biggest villain known to mankind"

    Andy Birkey is being sued by Bradley Smith​Heavy metal pastor Bradley Dean Smith is at war with Minnesota Independent reporter Andy Birkey. Last week, Smith (a.k.a Bradlee Dean) filed a lawsuit against Birkey and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, accusing them of taking an excerpt from his radio sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Bradlee Dean's lawyer: "Rachel Maddow's career is over"

    Larry Klayman: lawyer, activist, character on West Wing.​Bradlee Dean's lawyer, Larry Klayman, is quite the character. Really. As in, there's actually a character in the show West Wing based off of him named Harry Klaypool. Klayman is also the founder of Freedom Watch, might have been the inspira ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Bradlee Dean sues Rachel Maddow

    Smith wants more than $50 million from the MSNBC host.​Punk rock preacher Bradley Dean Smith will announce plans later this morning to sue MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for more than $50 million. According to Smith, better known as Bradlee Dean, Maddow and other unnamed news outlets defamed him by twe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Bradlee Dean suing Andy Birkey of Minnesota Independent as well as Rachel Maddow

    Photo by Nick Pinto, Village Voice.Sporting a Minnesota Twins t-shirt, Smith and his lawyer announced the lawsuit in New York this morning.​Controversial pastor Bradley Dean Smith announced this morning that, in addition to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, he is also suing Minnesota Independent writer An ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Minnesota Independent, MSNBC respond to Bradlee Dean lawsuit

    Birkey has won awards for his coverage of Smith.​The Minnesota Independent is standing by its reporting, denying allegations that writer Andy Birkey defamed punk rock pastor Bradley Dean Smith. Smith, a.k.a. Bradlee Dean, filed a lawsuit against Birkey this morning, alleging that Birkey and MSNBC ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Video of Bradlee Dean lawsuit press conference

    Smith held a press conference this morning in New York to announce the lawsuit.​Minnesota pastor Bradley Dean Smith -- a.k.a. Bradlee Dean -- announced earlier today he is suing MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow and Minnesota Independent writer Andy Birkey. The civil suit, filed today in Washington, D. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Justice Dept. investigating Anoka-Hennepin schools for harassment of gay students

    Justin Aaberg is one of four gay teen suicides in two years.​The Department of Justice is investigating allegations of a hostile environment toward gay and lesbian students against the Anoka-Hennepin County school district.The DOJ, along with the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Bradlee Dean Interview, Part 2: Taxes, Michele Bachmann, and the Capitol Prayer Debacle

    Bradlee Dean on Kurt Zellers: "He's a liar. He straight up lied."​In late May, pastor Bradley Dean Smith, the subject of this week's feature, launched himself into the public eye by delivering a controversial prayer on the floor of the Minnesota Legislature. Smith, better known as Bradlee Dean, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Bradlee Dean Interview, Part 1: The Early Days, Finding God, and the Public School Circuit

    City Pages sits down with Smith to talk about how his ministry came to be.​Since starting his evangelical, punk-rock ministry more than 10 years ago, Bradley Dean Smith has been the subject of much public scrutiny. For years, he's been accused of blurring the lines between church and state by tou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Karl Bremer on Bradlee Dean, Michele Bachmann's pastor problem [Interview]

    Courtesy Karl Bremer.Bremer has chronicled Bachmann and Dean on his blog, A Ripple In Stillwater.​For more than 10 years, blogger Karl Bremer has been doggedly chronicling the misadventures of Minnesota's craziest politician, Michele Bachmann. Now that Bachmann's presidential candidacy has earned ... More >>

  • News

    July 13, 2011

    Bradlee Dean's benediction

    How a tracksuit-wearing homophobe became the MN GOP's favorite preacher

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Gay Minnesota teens report rampant school harassment

    ​Given the the vehemence with which anti-gay activists oppose anti-bullying measures in our schools, the results of a new survey hardly sound surprising: Straight Minnesota teenagers think it's fine to bully their LGBT classmates. What's worse, some teachers are leading the way with homophobi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    Michele Bachmann makes bold play for black vote, claims she's better for blacks than Obama

    The title of Michele Bachmann's new autobiography took many observers by surprise.​This may be the craziest thing Michele Bachmann has said yet.At the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans over the weekend, Bachmann tried to make in-roads into Barack Obama's most reliable voter base by c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2011

    Michele Bachmann glitter bombed [VIDEO]

    More of a glitter sprinkling ...​Michele Bachmann was glittered by a gay rights protester at today's RightOnline appearance, making her the latest politician to be hit by this bizarre new form of street theater.In the video below, the protestor appears to sprinkle the glitter on Bachmann -- hardly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    Pioneer Press misspells Michele Bachmann's name in headline

    Who is this "Michelle Bachmann" you speak of?​With the flurry of new press attention for Michele Bachmann, there will also be a lot of ink-stained wretches with egg on their face as they make the common mistake of adding an extra "l" to the congresswoman's first name.But we didn't think that it wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    How Bachmann did at last night's Republican debate

    Bachmann took the opportunity to announce her candidacy to the nation.​Michele Bachmann appeared to be glowing at the beginning of last night's Republican debate in New Hampshire, and it didn't take long for us to find out why. Bachmann skipped the first question posed to her by stealing the thund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2011

    Michele Bachmann will not run for re-election in Minnesota's 6th district

    Bachmann's YouTube announcementMichele Bachmann is out of Minnesota's hair . . . for now.​In last night's Republican debate, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann announced that she has filed paperwork and is now officially running for president in 2012. While none of this is a surprise, it means that w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Michele Bachmann files presidential race paperwork

    Bachmann is running for president.​Rep. Michele Bachmann used the Republican debate on CNN tonight to announce that she's filed official paperwork to run for White House in 2012. That's not the same thing as officially declaring herself a candidate, but it's the last official step any candida ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Bachmann aide Rollins sorry for being a big meanie to Palin

    Ed Rollins apologizes. But a retraction? Forget it.​When veteran GOP operative Ed Rollins joined Michele Bachmann's as-yet-unofficial White House campaign, he wasted no time in trashing the other conservative Republican woman who may run in 2012. Sarah Palin is a lightweight, he told one TV i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Bradlee Dean flunks gay sex law 101

    Bradlee Dean, scholar.​Everyone's favorite odious preacher Bradlee Dean has made a cottage industry out of anti-gay rhetoric on the radio, the internets and, most recently, Walmart parking lots. So is it too much to ask that he at least be familiar with the law around gay rights, since he's wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Michele Bachmann's no Ronald Reagan, Wall Street Journal says

    The Wall Street Journal knows Ronald Reagan, and says Bachmann is no Ronald Reagan.​America's Craziest Congresswoman passes herself off as a constitutional conservative, but the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, a bullwark of real conservative thinking, has lumped her in with a bunch of ot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Team Pawlenty hammers "pain in the ass" Bachmann, Part 2

    Not so happy together.​On the record, Tim Pawlenty's people say everything's hunky dory with fellow Minnesotan Michele Bachmann, even though she leads him in most GOP presidential polls despite his carefully planned assault on the White House. "Any suggestion that this isn't a good relations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Pawlenty and Bachmann not worthy of any office, most Minnesotans tell pollster

    Minnesotans aren't buying what these two are selling.​Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann are spending a lot of time these days introducing a version of themselves to voters across the country blessed with not having had to endure them lo these many years. But in Minnesota, where we know these ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Bradlee Dean uses "suicide prevention" to raise money for anti-gay ministry

    Bradlee Dean, the man behind the ministry.​When Julia Miller pulled into the BP station on Lexington and St. Anthony in St. Paul last month, she was immediately approached by a young man from an organization called You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International. While Miller pumped her gas, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Bradlee Dean lied to Walmart about his church, is now banned from parking lot

    Bradlee Dean, kicked out of Walmart.​It's been a rough week for Bradlee Dean. On Friday the gay-baiting minister was universally denounced by just about every state lawmaker who could get near a microphone. Now it turns out that not only is Dean permanently unwelcome in the state legislature ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Bradlee Dean's church spotted in Walmart parking lot

    Bradlee Dean in his track suit at the legislature.​Bradlee Dean wants very badly to be taken seriously. He begged Republican lawmakers to let him give the Legislature's opening prayer, then turned around and attacked them once the appearance blew up in the GOP's face. But since even that nega ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    House OKs gay marriage ban question: GOP Rep. John Kreisel votes no [VIDEO]

    John Kreisel, Iraq war veteran, patriot, and opponent of the gay marriage ban.​A 2012 ballot question that aims to ban gay marriage via the state constitution has now been approved by both the Minnesota House and Senate, in a mighty demonstration of how lawmakers really know how to prioritize ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2011

    Katherine Kersten distorts truth about language of gay marriage amendment

    Katherine Kersten wants to defend you from the truth.​There are many falsehoods in today's latest loony epistle from conservative school marm Katherine Kersten, not least of which is the notion that enemies of gay marriage are the ones who need to fear intimidation--as if gays were trying to whip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Bradlee Dean, homophobic preacher, gives creepy opening prayer at Legislature [VIDEO]

    Bradlee Dean, Axl Rose look-alike and legislative chaplain.​There's something fitting about this: On the day that the Minnesota Legislature is likely to vote forward a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, the Republican leadership invited the most notoriously bigoted preacher in the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Kurt Zellers apologizes for Bradlee Dean's opening "prayer" [VIDEO]

    Kurt Zellers apologizes.​No Republican has stepped forward yet to admit inviting homophobic preacher Bradlee Dean to give the opening "prayer" at today's House session, but Speaker Kurt Zellers was man enough to take ultimate responsibility for the debacle, and repudiated Dean in comments from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Rep. Ernie Leidiger outed for inviting Bradlee Dean to lead House prayer

    GOP Rep. Ernie Leidiger, Bradlee Dean's host.​He hasn't stepped forward on his own, but MPR is reporting that Republican Rep. Ernie Leiiger, of Mayer, was the lawmaker who invited homophobic preacher Bradlee Dean to give the House prayer this morning. Leidiger represents District 34a, which i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Bradlee Dean's "prayer" not first at Capitol to exclude Jews

    Terri Bonoff wanted Jews included in a Senate prayer. Bradlee Dean replied, "Get her name eradicated."​As offensive and creepy as Bradlee Dean's "prayer" was today at the state Capitol for other reasons, it's also not the first time that Jews have found themselves not welcomed by a Christian p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Michele Bachmann prays for Bradlee Dean's homophobic ministry [AUDIO]

    Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean​The Minnesota Legislature erupted in controversy today following the opening prayer this morning by Bradlee Dean, the Axl Rose-lookalike homophobic minister.The boneheaded decision to invite Dean to the party has backfired on Republicans, who now face a groundswel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2010

    Anne Rice quits church, blaming Bradlee Dean, among others [UPDATED]

    Image via FacebookRice quits Christ's followers​Updated: "You'd like the UCC, Anne Rice" launches on Facebook. Details after the jump. Anne Rice, arguably the modern-day mother of America's obsession with all things vampire, made big news a decade ago when she converted to Christianity. Now s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Tom Emmer finesses Bradlee Dean's sympathy for executing gays

    Bradlee Dean's happy to support Tom Emmer, above, anytime he's asked. Dean also sympathizes with Muslims wanting to execute gays.​Bradlee Dean, leader of the right-wing punk rock ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide, really is a love-thy-neighbor kind of guy. A good, patriotic Republican, ... More >>

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