Tony Perkins Tells Us Why
When pundit Kirsten Powers published an op-ed in USA Today arguing that the recent effort in Kansas to allow businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ people, is an update of Jim Crow -- the Christian...
View ArticleTony Perkins' reaction to Pennsylvania marriage equality ruling is comedy gold
Bitter pinched bigot Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council reacted to today's marriage equality ruling in Pennsylvania via press release and it was schadenfreudelicious."Judge Jones ruling has no...
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Tony Perkins: Pennsylvania outlaws straight marriage
After Pennsylvania court decision, Tony Perkins is also crying, but for different reasons.Tony Perkins:"Judge Jones ruling has no basis in Supreme Court precedent, and lacks any foundation in the text...
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Tony Perkins thinks America will 'discard' judges' rulings for marriage equality
It's like I said before, in lieu of providing proof of their arguments in court cases (such as the recent marriage equality victories in Pennsylvania and Oregon), anti-gay organization leaders such as...
View ArticleWe do not want a Gay Fourth Reich
This past Friday, Tony Perkins of Focus on the Family had a public tête-à-tête with Nicolle Martin of the ironically named Alliance Defending Freedom. He had this to say in response to the baker from...
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Perkins, Mourdock join the long list of GOP Holocaust expanders
In 2012, Democrats won 93 percent of the African-American vote and 69 percent of the Jewish vote. Given the policy preferences of those voting blocks, the results should have come as no surprise to...
View ArticleTony Perkins: Obviously, homosexual attractions are not a "choice"
Even before the first bottle was hurled at Stonewall, the religious right's go-to argument that gay people deserve to be treated like filthy animals is because we have made a conscious choice to be...
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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest: Pryor's up in his own poll, but headed...
Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here.Leading Off: •AR-Sen, -Gov: Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor has just released a new internal...
View ArticleFox News anchor Megyn Kelly has cozy relationship with anti-gay Family...
In spite of the Family Research Council being declared an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center due to its long history of attacking the lgbt community via lies, bad science, and...
View ArticleChristian Right Voter Mobilization -- The Campaign Season Finale
One of the secrets of the success of the Christian Right over the years has been that opponents have taken the movement with insufficient seriousness. (I won't get into that story here.) Suffice to...
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Top Comments: Post marriage equality career advice for professional bigots
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Ted Olson And Tony Perkins Debate Marriage Equality; Brian Brown: Huckabee Is...
AFER Attorney Ted Olson (who represented the plaintiffs in Virginia's Bostic case as well as the plaintiffs in the Prop 8 case from California) and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council debated...
View ArticleHow The Religious Right Talks About LGBT People
After I saw the video of Arizona pastor Steven Anderson advocating that everyone who is gay or bisexual be killed, I decided to make a video of what other religious righties had said.The video is...
View ArticleThe Christian Right Does Not Want You To Know About This Day - updated
In the heat of our political moment, we sometimes don’t see how our future connects deeply to our past. But the Christian Right does — and they do not like what they see.The Christian Right has made...
View ArticleTed Olson Vs Tony Perkins Regarding Nationwide Marriage Equality
Today, Ted Olson (who litigated both the Prop 8 case out of California and the marriage equality case out of Virginia) faced off with Tony Perkins (of the Family Research Council, an SPLC labeled hate...
View ArticleOne Man's Pastry Is Another Man's Poison
Religious bullies continue their aggressive denial of reality.The religious right was generous with its insights into the U.S. Constitution last week. In Alabama, House Speaker Mike Hubbard responded...
View ArticleTony Perkins Is A Willfully Ignorant F*ckstick
The anti-discrimination bill in Utah that covers sexual orientation and gender identity has been revealed. As it was always going to be a compromise between the LGBT community and religious people, the...
View ArticleTwo Overlooked Indiana Outcomes that Could Haunt the Christian Right
I think there are two underreported features of the fallout from Indiana that we should make sure do not get lost in the hoo ha. One is that people are getting it that religious freedom does not and...
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Tony Perkins claims churches will lose federal tax exemptions over marriage...
Located in Greenville, South Carolina, Bob Jones University is a deeply conservative institution catering to fundamentalist Christians. The laundry list of rules students must abide by are laughably...
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Republican presidential candidates make traditional pilgrimage to seek...
I'm right here! What more do you want of me? An embarrassment of riches is what it is. It used to be that your hard-core theocrats and leaders of "Christian" hate groups would have to make do with a...
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