Bradlee Dean managed to link Dan Savage to Barack Obama and the North American Man/Boy Love Association this week

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 the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation," Savage said. "We ignore bullshit in the Bible about all sorts of things."

That prompted Dean to write an editorial, "Deranged Dan Savage at war with God," where he criticizes Savage as a "bully," accuses him of "licking doorknobs," and blasts Barack Obama for hiring "over 225 homosexuals and transvestites" in the federal government, "including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, who 'queerified' Harvard."

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SCSU students apparently weren't interested to hear Dean play the drums. Yeah, that must've been it.

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. Cloud Times, Dean and his band, Junkyard Prophet, "performed to a sparse crowd" of about 50 people. Toward the end of his performance, attendance more than doubled as about 80 students associated with a group called No-Hate lined the walls, some wearing tape over their mouths.

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Bradlee Dean and co-host Jake MacAulay say the media is bias.

​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 it self defense. Al Sharpton is drawing comparisons to Civil Rights-era Birmingham, Alabama. Geraldo Rivera blames the hooded sweatshirt.

Now, Bradlee Dean, Minnesota's controversial, rap-metal preacher, has decided to join the conversation. On his radio show, Dean and co-host Jake MacAulay presented their theories on the Martin case. According to the two hosts, it's an open-and-shut case of racism -- against white people.

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For more on Bradlee Dean, read our July 2011 cover story.

​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 delivered by the anti-gay preacher and his cronies: The average lifespan for a gay man is 42, and if women have sex before marriage, they will have "mud on their wedding dresses."

The principal of the school has since resigned, according to the WCF Courier, though school officials say there's no connection.

Earlier this week, a collective of advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, penned an open letter to school administrators, demanding that they be more careful about who is invited to talk to kids. From the letter (in full at the bottom of the post):

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Dean is getting blasted for a gay-bashing presentation at an Iowa public school, but perhaps he prefers bad press to no press at all.

​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 talk to students about bullying and making good choices. Little did school administrators know that Dean and his group planned to do some bullying of their own.

During last week's assembly, one of Dean's preachers, Jake Macaulay, told students, incorrectly, that the average age of death for homosexual males is 42. "His actions literally kill him," he said, referring to gays.

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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.

And now, even Bradlee Dean has turned against her.

On his radio show last week, the hard-rock minister explained why a certain female presidential candidate's "shameful" and stinky behavior has gotten him "jacked" up lately. And not in a good way.

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Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean were featured in a New York Times article together.

​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 from his radio show out of context.

But Dean is apparently ecstatic about a September profile of him in the New York Times, which for some reason ran in the Style section.

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Bradlee Dean needs a new car wash.

​Under fire from boycotters and forced to answer uncomfortable questions from the press, the Edina Car Wash has decided to end its relationship with Bradlee Dean's "You Can Run But You Cannot Hide."

Last week, when City Pages reached the car wash manager to ask about the Facebook boycott, she said that yes, Dean's little fundraising teams come out every few months. But, she went on, everyone had the wrong idea about these guys.

In a a statement posted to its website yesterday, Edina Car Wash admits that it was probably them who had the wrong idea.

"While we find no fault with a Biblically based Christian message, we do take issue with the lack of respect Mr. Dean personally has shown on occasion when communicating that Christian message he claims to support," the statement says. "Therefore, effective today, we are no longer going to allow the organization that Mr. Dean heads to use our facility."
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Bradlee Dean: He's pretty much already dressed to work at a carwash.

​Do you want the turtle wax with your car wash? Oh, and do you want a little bit of anti-gay hate?

That's the question asked by a group that's calling for a boycott of the Edina Car Wash, claiming that it acts as a host for Bradlee Dean's "You Can Run But You Cannot Hide" fundraising team.

In the past, when City Pages reached out to Walmart about supporting the anti-gay crusader, Walmart backed away from Dean like he was strapped with dynamite, claiming that he'd lied to them about what his organization was doing.

City Pages reached out to the Edina Car Wash, and they, too, said this was all a big misunderstanding -- only this time, they're the only ones who know the truth about Dean, and everyone else has it wrong.
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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 show out of context and defaming him by making it seem like he advocated the execution of homosexuals, something Smith says he doesn't condone.

Two weeks before Smith filed the suit, he lamented the media coverage of his ministry in an interview with City Pages for our July 13 cover story, The Benediction of Bradlee Dean. Smith complained about a years-long contentious relationship with Birkey -- and the reporter's role in the conspiratorial "gay agenda."

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