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LGBT rights activist charged with shooting Family Research Council guard
A gay rights activist has been charged with shooting and trying to kill a security guard at the Washington headquarters of a Christian conservative organization, judicial officials said Thursday. Floyd Lee Corkins, a former volunteer with gay advocacy group “The DC Center for the LGBT Community,” faces up to 40…
Southern Poverty Law Center takes heat after D.C. shooting
Conservatives on Wednesday blasted the Southern Poverty Law Center after a gunman shot a security guard in the front lobby of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. The Southern Poverty Law Center had labeled the organization a hate group in 2010 “because of its dissemination of false and demonizing…
Security guard shot at conservative lobbying group’s headquarters
A security guard has been shot at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, the Associated Press reports. Police say the guard was shot in the arm, and that one person has been taken into custody. The guard is conscious and breathing. In a statement, the council’s president, Tony Perkins,…
Tony Perkins: Google’s pro-LGBT campaign will ‘search and destroy’ values
The leader of an anti-LGBT Christian think tank on Monday warned that search engine giant Google should be ready for “blow back” over their “Legalize Love” campaign, which targets countries that have anti-homosexuality laws. “Thanks to a new campaign, Google’s approach to traditional values is to search — and destroy,”…
Tony Perkins: Marriage equality ‘only brings pain and heartache’
The leader of a Christian think tank is warning that marriage between two men or two women “only brings pain and heartache.” In a video message, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council — a hate group, according the the Southern Poverty Law Center — declared that President Barack…
Stewart creates penis video camera for Tony Perkins
In the latest installment of his “Gaywatch” segment, Jon Stewart mocked Family Research Council President Tony Perkins Monday evening for saying candy company Just Born was “sexualizing candy” with an ad about how the duo Mike & Ike had split. The Daily Show host reacted to Perkins’ peculiar attack by…
Tony Perkins: Star Wars ‘surrenders to gay empire’
An evangelical leader is calling on his army of followers to take action against a software company for allowing same sex relationships to be represented in a new Star Wars video game. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council — a hate group, according the the Southern Poverty Law…
Come and take them!
Some days, I really think the organized Christian right should take some of their big bags of money and spend just a little of it doing some background research on the historical analogies they use to describe themselves. A description of what’s in this video, which is a bunch of…
Note to Family Research Council: resistance is futile.
Freedom is irrelevant. Assimilation is inevitable. Resistance is futile. Yes, it’s pretty funny that the Family Research Council continues to believe that The Homosexual Agenda is all-powerful and all-consuming — a steamroller of epic proportions, crushing all Christianity out of our culture by our stealthiness and our balls-out aggression (remember,…
Tony Perkins: If Prop 8 is defeated, the next step — Christians will be jailed
Yeah, baby. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council is on fire with this batsh*t crazy letter to frantic supporters of the Cali marriage amendment. When this measure is defeated, he warns that the prisons will be overrun with fundies. The unhinged letter is below the fold. Is San Quentin…
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