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It only took a brief rant to wreck Austin Ruse鈥檚 budding career as a 鈥渢raditionalist鈥� Catholic pundit. Ruse, president of the (C-FAM), an anti-LGBT hate group that lobbies at the United Nations, was on American Family Radio (AFR) last week when he said that the 鈥渉ard left, human-hating people that run modern universities鈥� like Duke 鈥�.鈥�

While violent rhetoric is an of far-right rhetoric, it is particularly jarring coming from a pundit and think tank official who markets himself as 鈥減ro-life鈥� and 鈥減ro-family.鈥�

After Right Wing Watch posted Ruse鈥檚 rant 鈥� and to having his own words played back 鈥� Ruse found himself suddenly isolated. The American Family Association 鈥� on whose program he made the rant 鈥� , saying: 鈥淎FR condemns such comments, no matter who makes them.鈥� One of C-FAM鈥檚 board members, Monsignor Anthony Frontiero, after petitioned him to do so. And C-FAM may at the United Nations.

Ruse eventually buckled and apologized, telling :

鈥淚 deeply regret and apologize for using the expression 'taken out and shot' on the Sandy Rios Show this week. It was not intended to be taken literally. I have dedicated my life and career to ending violence. I regret that these poorly chosen words are being used to attack my friends at American Family Radio and American Family Association.鈥�

Notwithstanding the apology, AFR鈥檚 Sandy Rios Ruse鈥檚 remarks as being 鈥渨ords of life鈥� that warn believers against listening to liberal professors. Rios insisted that Ruse鈥檚 words were the kind people make in private conversation all the time, which may well be true around her workplace 鈥� AFR is a wing of the American Family Association, whose spokesperson has made all manner of offensive and outrageous remarks.

Ruse still appears to have a friend in the Family Research Council (FRC), which prominently featured him earlier this month in a on the U.N. Ruse used the opportunity to promote a conspiracy theory (one promoted ) that a cadre of United Nations officials were working to make abortion rights a component of every U.N. treaty. He also castigated the U.N. generally as a hotbed of socialism.

Perhaps more noteworthy were remarks by Ruse鈥檚 fellow panelist, Pat Fagan of the FRC. Speaking about a U.N. panel that the Vatican over sexual abuse, Fagan compared the panel鈥檚 report to , the night of violence that Nazi Brownshirts subjected Jewish merchants to in November 1933 and which foreshadowed the Holocaust:

FAGAN: This is just an analogy and I don鈥檛 want to take it directly, but the first really egregious act that was very public and against the good of people and against the good of the Jews was Kristallnacht in Germany. And that was very significant because the police permitted it. And that was the beginning of the end, when those who were there to enforce the law failed to do so and did not protect the citizen from these bullies 鈥� more than bullies, murderers.

Now, this is not Kristallnacht. But it is the breaking of a pretty big window. They didn鈥檛 go around smashing all the windows, it鈥檚 just that if you think of the Vatican as a shop on Main Street, well, they didn鈥檛 break all the windows on Main Street but they went up to the shop and they smashed through the big plate glass window.

Now, this is good, because it is now made very clear what is going on.

In the discussion that followed, Ruse lauded Fagan鈥檚 remarks on this point.

Today, Ruse published on the fallout from his comment, which he now admits was a 鈥済affe鈥� (nothing more, nothing less, in his mind). It remains to be seen if Ruse can recover.