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Tony Perkins: Obama’s evangelical ‘watch list’ could ban Christian gun buyers
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has warned that President Barack Obama could be planning to create a special “watch list” for Catholics and evangelical Christians to prevent them from buying guns. On his Wednesday Washington Watch broadcast, Perkins said he was “concerned” about a bipartisan deal in the Senate…
Tony Perkins attacks Harris-Perry’s education promo with anti-marriage equality rant
The head of the anti-LGBT rights group Family Research Council (FRC) on Wednesday used a Fox News segment about MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry’s public education promotional advertisement to rail against equal marriage rights. Over the last week, conservative websites and pundits have attacked Harris-Perry over the notion that the community…
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…
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…
Tony Perkins: Boy Scouts’ anti-LGBT policies ‘make good citizens’ who are ‘morally straight’
Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins is defending the Boy Scouts of America’s policy banning gay members by saying the organization wanted to “make good citizens” by encouraging scouts to be “morally straight.” In a letter earlier this week, Perkins had blasted UPS CEO D. Scott Davis after the…
5 Questions For: Gay Republican and GOProud co-founder Chris Barron
Chris Barron is no stranger to controversy: From inviting the controversial Ann Coulter to headline the first-ever “HomoCon” of gay conservatives to his organizations on-again, off-again relationship with the influential CPAC conference to his infamous feud with liberal LGBT activist Dan Savage, he’s never shied away from the spotlight and,…
SPLC: Tony Perkins using shooting to ‘score points’
Tony Perkins is a political opportunist who is taking advantage of a shooting at the anti-LGBT Family Research Council (FRC) to exact revenge on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for labeling them a hate group, according to a senior fellow at the civil rights organization. During a Thursday press…
Tony Perkins says Southern Poverty Law Center gave ‘license’ for shooting
Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins commented on Fox News on Thursday that the Southern Poverty Law Center gave a shooter “license” to commit the act that injured a security guard at his organization’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Though Perkins said he wanted to “be very clear” about the…
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 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…
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