Quick Hit: Family Research Council's Tony Perkins needs to STFU (REVISED)
Well.Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, has issued a statement blasting President Obama's response to the Charleston terror attack.It's what drives such a disrespect for humanity...
View ArticleTony Perkins' ties to White Supremacists Still Unmentioned In News Reports
State Senator Tony Perkins addresses the Council of Conservative Citizens in 2001. The Council of Conservative Citizens (CofCC) is suddenly big news, and for good reason. In a manifesto unearthed in...
View ArticleRNC at least dialing it back?
Hey, I like Teh Gayz as much as anybody else. I did a quick search and didn't see this covered, so I thought I'd throw it out there, if there are other diaries, then just ignore this one. I know...
View ArticleTony Perkins claims that Christians will face a ‘Reverse Religious Test’ in...
Last week, the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins convened an emergency meeting of his “Watchmen on the Wall” pastors’ group to address “the aftermath of the seismic Supreme Court ruling on...
View ArticleFRC Tony Perkins & Jonathan Cahn claimed Joaquin will hit DC as Punishment...
FRC President Tony Perkins interviewed Jonathan Cahn, another rabid anti-gay pastor and End Times nut, who claimed that Hurricane Joaquin could hit Washington D.C. as punishment for gay marriage....
View ArticleA Tale of Two Pilgrimages
Francis and Farrakhan go to Washington.Autumn is a lovely time to visit the nation's capital. Here I look at contrasting visits by two prominent faith leaders.10.10.15 Justice or Else Gathering....
View ArticleTony Perkins goes full-on bonkers. Nobody notices the difference
Last Tuesday court-appointed receiver who has managed health care for California prisons under federal court order since the Scwarzenegger administration announced new guidelines which authorize...
View ArticleThe Christian right was going to unite and play kingmaker in 2016. So much...
Social conservatives and the religious right swore that 2016 was going to be their year. They were going to learn from their mistakes in 2008 and 2012 and this time, they would unite behind a single...
View ArticleMorning Digest: Kamala Harris overwhelmingly wins the California Democratic...
Leading Off:●CA-Sen: Over the weekend, the California Democratic Party held its convention and voted to endorse state Attorney General Kamala Harris over Rep. Loretta Sanchez. Winning the state party...
View ArticleThe GOP's other convention battle: same-sex marriage
Social conservatives' panties are in a wad as they prep for "hand-to-hand combat" at this year's GOP convention because other Republicans would like to see a more welcoming approach to same-sex...
View ArticleTrump, 'friend' of LGBT Americans, woos anti-LGBT social conservatives
ABC’s This Week may have dumped homophobe Tony Perkins from its pundit lineup last weekend following the Orlando shooting, but Donald Trump hasn't. Among the 1,000-some social conservative Christian...
View ArticleLGBT activist confronts homophobe Tony Perkins: 'YOU are responsible' for the...
No, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins didn't actually pull the trigger in Orlando. But the LGBT direct action group GetEQUAL got up in Tony Perkins' face Tuesday to say what LGBT Americans...
View ArticleThe Republican platform hates gays, puts women back in the kitchen, and...
Over the last week, as the Republican platform committee added planks to their ever growing platform a pattern established itself. Again and again, libertarian forces in the party raised objections to...
View ArticleTrump's shameless attempt at wooing LGBT Americans with empty promises
The best line of Donald Trump's nomination acceptance speech last week was also the most disingenuous. "As your President, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Tony Perkins- 2016 Update
On this date, in both 2014, as well as in 2015, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” had profiles of Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana state legislator who has gone on to speak in front of the white...
View ArticleIt's Karma-Not a Blessing-Tony Perkins' Holy Home Flooded by GOD !
No Holy Tony, it is not a Blessing, it is Fucking KarmaYou know, what goes ‘round, comes ‘roundStudy your Christo Fascist Mullah explained Climate Catastrophe history- As per the unquestioned...
View ArticleG-d gets revenge ? Floods are horrid things. But was G-d sending a message?
I am not trying, as those on the right sometimes do, to minimize storms, flooding and hurricanes. They are horrid event and result in lives lost and G-d willing, they should never occur.But G-d seems...
View ArticleTony Perkins, you're a Godsend!!!!!
Tony Perkins, Head Bigot in Charge at the Orwellian named Family Research Council, has long maintained that natural disasters are due to God’s wrath because of ‘teh gay’ plague. Well, looks like God...
View ArticleTony Perkins says God punishes gays with natural disasters, has home...
The 1,000-year flood in Louisiana is a terrible natural disaster. Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council. He and his organization are spectacular homophobes who have stoked the...
View ArticleTrump goes to La. to meet flooding victim and famous bigot Tony Perkins
Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins, who made his name by declaring that natural disasters were God’s punishment against gay rights, has expressed regret that the hand of God has damaged his...
View ArticleItemizing the Media’s Double Standard with Hillary Clinton
The media obsesses over creating a false equivalency with Hillary Clinton. Any time she slightly exaggerates anything – or perhaps just inferring Trump’s political stance on an issue based on an...
View ArticleTony Perkins: Never a wrong time to advocate hate
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council said last Wednesday that the US armed forces should be shut down rather than allow transgender service members.
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Ted Cruz- 2016 Update
We spent this day in both 2014, as well as in 2015 here at “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day featuring profiles of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, a man the general public finds to have the most...
View ArticleTony Perkins has 'every confidence' Trump will still issue anti-LGBTQ...
The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins is here to assure us that Donald Trump is still going to take executive action that grants special rights to Christians to discriminate against LGBTQ...
View ArticleHate group leader wants Trump to 'take a wrecking ball' to LGBT Pride
Campaign ActionDespite Donald Trump having one of the most homophobic administrations in modern history, and his refusal to acknowledge LGBT Pride Month for the first time since George W. Bush was in...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Tony Perkins- 2017 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana state legislator who has gone on to speak in front of the white...
View ArticleSteve Scalise Thinks 2A Is Dandy, But That His Savior Is a Sinner.
Steve Scalise was shot and almost killed. You would think the experience would make him consider how easy it is for madmen to get hold of guns in America. But no — completely the opposite, in fact. In...
View ArticleThe lgbt community has no President
Donald Trump, who pretended to be a friend of the lgbt community will become the first sitting President to address the Value Voters Summit which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described as a...
View ArticleTrump Legitimizes The Evangelical Hate Movement
Donald Trump is hate personified and it would be nearly impossible to think there were very many Americans who don’t believe that is the case; including no small number of his zealot devotees. They...
View ArticleCSGOPOTD: Steve Scalise- 2017 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, as well as 2016, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Steve Scalise, the current U.S. House Representative for Louisiana’s 1st District, who was revealed...
View ArticleTony Perkins rails against homosexuality but happily covered up a Republican...
Many Ohio voters are a little miffed that they weren't informed sooner of the repeated sexual transgressions of Bible-thumping Republican, Wesley Goodman, an Ohio State representative who resigned...
View ArticleTony Perkins Gives Trump a "Mulligan" for Adultery with a Porn Star.
Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, has reacted to the revelation that Donald Trump was shtupping a porn star a year after he married his third wife, and months after son Barron was...
View ArticleCorrupted by grifters and charlatans, evangelicalism has devolved into an...
At no point during this long Politico article about Family Research Council head Tony Perkins does Politico mention that the Family Research Council is an SPLC-designated hate group. This is an odd...
View ArticleWhat the World Knows- Trump Will Pay You if You Use Compromising Information...
Stormy Daniels had leverage to use against Donald Trump, so she used it. She is just one individual who shared a “relationship” with Donald Trump. Yet, she was able to turn those minor dalliances into...
View ArticleTrump's new transgender military ban is worse than 'don't ask, don't tell'...
Amid all the stormy revelations about porn stars and firings and attorney flight enveloping the White House, you may have missed the weekend news dump on Donald Trump's new transgender military ban....
View ArticleThe GOP's taking their war against gay rights global
The Southern Poverty Law Center has named the Focus on the Family off-shoot Family Research Council a hate group. Now Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has named its head, ignominious Tony...
View ArticleThe Four Horsemen of evangelical hypocrisy: How they whitewashed Donald Trump
I thought some of you would be interested in a story I had published on Salon this morning: “The Four Horsemen of evangelical hypocrisy: How they whitewashed Donald Trump.”In the article I connect...
View ArticleGOP Holocaust analogists furious over Nazi border policy comparisons
It was a tough week for supporters of Donald Trump’s draconian policy of separating the families of undocumented immigrants at the border. (Those supporters are overwhelmingly Republican: a Quinnipiac...
View ArticleWingnut Pastor Claims 'God Is Burning Down California' For 'Legitimizing Sin...
These hell fire and brimstone preachers sure love to blame catastrophes upon God. Wingnut Tony Perkins, head of the rabidly anti-LGBT Family Research Council blamed God for Hurricane Joaquin, which He...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Tony Perkins- 2018 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, as well as 2017, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana state legislator who has gone on to speak in front of...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Wesley Goodman
Welcome to the 688th original “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” profile, where we’re going to be talking about former Ohio House of Representatives member Wesley Goodman, a staunch social...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Tony Perkins- 2019 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana state legislator who has gone on to speak in...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Doug Lamborn- 2019 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, Doug...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Steve Scalise- 2019 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Steve Scalise, the current U.S. House Representative for Louisiana’s 1st District, who...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Tony Perkins- 2020 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, as well as 2019, that “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day” published profiles of Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana state legislator who has gone on to speak...
View ArticleCrazy/Stupid Republican of the Day: Tony Perkins- 2021 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, that "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana state legislator who has gone on...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Tony Perkins- 2022 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published profiles of Tony Perkins, a former Louisiana state legislator who...
View ArticleFanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Steve Scalise- 2022 Update
On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted profiles of Steve Scalise, the current U.S. House Representative for...
View ArticleRepublicans lament—if only they had talked more about abortion
“It was probably a bigger factor than a lot of people thought.”That's current Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Ronna McDaniel having the most profound GOP revelation of the cycle on the role...
View ArticleFamily Research Council’s Tony Perkins Declares War On Journalists Exposing...
Put yourself in the shoes of Tony Perkins. Not the late actor Tony Perkins, who scared the pants off of just about everyone in Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho. We’re talking about Tony Perkins, the...
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