Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, uses the venue of CNN's religion blog to argue that ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy would undermine religious liberty and subject believers to “pro-homosexual political correctness” that he claims pervades the military.
According to Perkins, a Marine veteran, the threat to religious freedom comes from the potential for nondiscrimination provisions to be added to the Department of Defense equal opportunity policy and related human relations training programs.
Council of Conservative Citizens In 2001, Perkins addressed the Council of Conservative Citizens (successor organization to the racist White Citizens Council), a known white nationalist organization.
Connections to David Duke The Nation claims that in 1996, Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,000 for use of his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was campaign manager for Louis E. "Woody" Jenkins, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the Jenkins campaign $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.
The Family Research Council says Blumenthal's claims about Perkins' connection to David Duke are false; FRC adds that Duke's "connection was not known to Mr. Perkins until 1999. Mr. Perkins claims to oppose the racial views of Mr. Duke and expresses grief to learn that Duke was a party to the company that had done work for the 1996 campaign."
Re:Religious Rights for homophobes
« Reply #2 on: 2010-06-04 18:06:14 »
[Mo]More recent gay-hating political activities of Tony Perkins and the "Family Research Council". For a supposedly straight man, he sure does spend a lot of money and effort to fight and kill gays.
CHRISTIAN LOVE: Family Research Council Lobbied Congress Against Resolution Denouncing Uganda's Kill Gays Bill click on link for images of relevant documents and commentary. http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/06/christian-love-family-research-council.html It's time for the Southern Poverty Law Center to reclassify the Family Research Council as an official hate group, not merely anti-gay as they are now listed. According to the FRC's official lobbying report for the first quarter of 2010, they paid two of their henchmen $25,000 to lobby Congress against approving a resolution denouncing Uganda's plan to execute homosexuals. The resolution passed in the Senate on April 13th, but remains languishing in the House almost four months after being referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee. Did the FRC's lobbying kill it? As we learned last week with Malawi, international pressure CAN sway even the most virulently anti-gay government.
Below are three screencaps of the 20-page Family Research Council lobbying report supplied to me by Duncan Osbourne at Gay City News. Among the other items they lobbied against are the overturn of DADT and DOMA, which is to be expected. But it's almost astounding, almost, that they would lobby the members of Congress against denouncing the death penalty for LGBT people. THIS needs to fucking THROWN in Tony Perkins' and Peter Sprigg's smirking faces the next time they appear on cable television to speak in soothing voices about the FRC's godly gentle love for homosexuals. The proof is right below on official United States government stationery. The Family Research Council wants you DEAD. Glory! Praise His Name! Also: Die, faggots, die!
Re:Religious Rights for homophobes
« Reply #4 on: 2010-06-11 02:39:50 »
I've had at least a couple of people lately get annoyed at my willingness to "make an issue" out of homophobic bigotry when confronted with it. I refuse to apologize for that, so if denouncing homicidal intentions towards people based on their sexual gender preferences is going to bother anyone, then they should probably just stay away from me. If Uganda politically follows through on this death to gays issue which some of their politicians have embraced, I hope they suffer economically in any way I and millions of other decent people can legally cause them to. If and when that happens, I can assure you that we will be very organized about this. Yes we can!
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