The terminally ridiculous and authoritarian Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council is positively apoplectic about NBC taking “under God” out of the pledge of allegiance. And he’s got some demands to make it go away:

Now the council is urging its members to contact NBC and demand the network play a public service announcement featuring the Pledge of Allegiance, in its entirety, daily.

“NBC must remedy this abuse by airing a series of public service announcement(s) with the entire Pledge of Allegiance,” read an e-mail blast sent Tuesday from council President Tony Perkins.

“Please join me in contacting NBC and demanding that the network air a daily public service announcement with the entire Pledge of Allegiance.”

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The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins brings the crazy again:

“This has moved from cultural terrorism to corporate terrorism. That’s what this is. Now, back in the 80’s and early 90’s I worked with the state department in anti-terrorism and we trained about fifty different countries in defending against terrorism, and it’s, at it’s base, what terrorism is, it’s a strike against the general populace simply to spread fear and intimidation so that they can disrupt and destabilize the system of government. That’s what the homosexuals are doing here to the legal system.”

Does he really believe this? Is he THAT stupid? Or does he just know that his followers are?

You knew last weekend’s Values Voters Summit would usher forth a nearly endless stream of idiotic statements. Let’s start with this one by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council:

“Well, those [countries] that do [allow gays to serve openly], they’re the ones that participate in parades, they don’t fight wars to keep the nation and the world free.”

Tell that to Israel, the nation you love to advocate for in every other setting. Or to Great Britain, our closest ally, which sent its military to fight side by side with us in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here’s a clip of an amusing “debate” between David Boies, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Prop 8 challenge, and Tony Perkins, the virulent bigot who heads the Family Research Council. Boies absolutely destroys Perkins. It’s not a close call who wins.

It cracks me up that Perkins compares this to Roe v Wade in the sense that Roe was not so controversial when it was handed down and grew more controversial over time. The exact opposite will happen here. In 30 years, we will look back and be absolutely befuddled by the fact that gay marriage was ever a big deal.
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Here’s a clip of an amusing “debate” between David Boies, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs in the Prop 8 challenge, and Tony Perkins, the virulent bigot who heads the Family Research Council. Boies absolutely destroys Perkins. It’s not a close call who wins.

It cracks me up that Perkins compares this to Roe v Wade in the sense that Roe was not so controversial when it was handed down and grew more controversial over time. The exact opposite will happen here. In 30 years, we will look back and be absolutely befuddled by the fact that gay marriage was ever a big deal.
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In my last post about the Louisiana Family Forum, I repeated a claim that Max Blumenthal made in a Nation article. The claim was that Tony Perkins, founder of the Louisiana Family Forum and now head of the Family Research Council, had bought David Duke’s mailing list in 1996 while running the Senate campaign of Woody Jenkins. Blumenthal wrote:

In 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list. At the time, Perkins was the campaign manager for a right-wing Republican candidate for the US Senate in Louisiana. The Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the money paid to Duke.

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