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Gay activist schools Tony Perkins: LGBT people won’t ‘use up all the marriage licenses’

Evan Wolfson, the founder of the one of the country’s top same sex marriage advocacy groups, on Sunday assured Family Research Council President Tony Perkins that “the gay people are not going to use up all the marriage licenses” if the Supreme Court strikes down marriage discrimination. CBS host Bob…

Rep. Salmon to Tony Perkins: House Republicans are ‘the last bastion of freedom’

An Arizona congressman on Monday told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins that Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives had a duty to stop President Barack Obama because they were “the last bastion of freedom.” “We cannot let President Obama keep advancing his agenda,” Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) said…

Tony Perkins: Tolerating LGBT students means ‘boys invading girls’ locker rooms’

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins on Monday warned that school policies baring discrimination against LGBT students could result in “teenage boys invading girls’ locker rooms.” In his Washington Watch Daily Radio Commentary, Perkins said that recent Massachusetts Department of Education guidelines protecting transgender students meant “rolling out the welcome…

Soledad O’Brien shames Perkins for defending gay scout ban with homosexuality-pedophilia link

CNN host Soledad O’Brien on Wednesday told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins that he could be “on the wrong side of history” after he defended the Boy Scouts’ ban on LGBT members by suggesting that homosexuals were more likely to be pedophiles. As the Boy Scouts of American national…

FRC’s Perkins calls ‘ex-gay’ therapy a ‘non-judgmental’ path to ‘wholeness’

In a conversation Friday on his Internet-only radio show, “Washington Watch Weekly,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said that the largely-discredited practice of anti-LGBT  conversion therapy is a “compassionate,” “non-judgmental” way for LGBT people to find “wholeness.” According to Right Wing Watch, Perkins was speaking with “con man and ex-gay group…

Huckabee worries EPA could say Baptists use ‘too much water’ for baptisms

Fox News host Mike Huckabee, who is an ordained Southern Baptist Minister, recently warned that President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could force his religion to begin using less water to baptize believers. During a Tuesday evening interview with Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, Huckabee worried that if…

Tony Perkins slams LGBT Pride by proposing ‘Adultery Pride Month’

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins recently compared celebrating LGBT Pride to dedicating a month to rejoice in drunkenness or adultery. “The month of June is Gay Pride Month,” Perkins told a caller named J.R. in radio interview obtained by Right Wing Watch on Monday. “Now, I have not yet…

Social conservative groups back Santorum

Desperate to stop Mitt Romney’s growing momentum towards the Republican presidential nomination, social conservatives groups are lining themselves behind Rick Santorum. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins announced Saturday afternoon the decision to support the former Pennsylvania Senator after several rounds of voting. “There emerged a strong consensus around Rick…