Sometimes the chutzpah of the religious right is staggering. Tony Perkins and Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council did a radio show about that memo to DOJ managers from a gay rights group about how to make the workplace welcoming to LGBT employees and Perkins said that he is firmly against extreme rhetoric that demonizes gays:
With Congress looking at a deal that would extend the background checks required to purchase guns at a regular store to other gun transfers, the right wing has a new loony meme: Christian are going to be banned from buying guns! Tony Perkins offered his version of that idiotic claim on his radio show:
Over the last few years, every single anti-discrimination ordinance in the country has seen the same argument made (with the same picture used on the ads and flyers). It goes like this: ZOMG, if we protect LGBT people from discrimination, men will be raping your daughters in unisex bathrooms! Tony Perkins repeats this ridiculous lie:
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council proudly received the 2012 Richard Land Distinguished Service Award from Land himself this past weekend. The award is given by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.
With the new policy allowing women to perform combat roles in the military, on top of the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, Tony Perkins is making the ridiculous argument that these things are to blame for the huge growth in military suicides over the last few years:
If there’s one thing that the Christian right loves, it’s a good Paradise Lost myth. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, of course, as it is the basis for the entire Christian mythology (the Garden of Eden and original sin, etc.). Here’s Rick Santorum and Tony Perkins waxing nostalgic over those mythical good old days:
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council joins his fellow wingnuts in getting a terrible case of the vapors over a web ad that features Lena Dunham talking to people who are voting for the first time and comparing it to losing their virginity. Why, it’s just disgusting and it’s a new low in politics:
World class bigot Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was granted an audience with Mitt Romney — or was it the other way around? — recently and Perkins gave him a short list of potential vice presidential nominees that he would find suitably crazy for his tastes:
There’s a video game out called Star Wars: The Old Republic, and it apparently includes same-sex relationships. That has Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council clutching his pearls and digging into his grab bag of clever Star Wars references:
Gosh, it seems like just two weeks ago that Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council was complaining about the unsupported claim that Joe Biden compared Tea Partiers to terrorists. And yet here he is on a radio show with Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association comparing those who support church/state separation to terrorists.
Perkins: It’s still ok to pray before a football game, it’s still ok to stand for the American flag, it’s still ok to be an American, yes, it’s tea party country, it’s people that love this country, it’s people that send their sons and daughters to fight for these liberals who enjoy all the liberties and the freedoms but won’t lift a finger to protect it and they want to come down here and intimidate these folks. And the school board’s strapped for money, don’t want to take on these expensive cases to defend themselves with these out of town, carpet bagging lawyers.
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