Family Research Council calls for 'civil disobedience' to block same sex marriages

The senior vice president of the Family Research Council (FRC) said on Wednesday that the civil disobedience may be necessary to prevent same sex marriages after voters in several states approved marriage equality.

In an special broadcast titled "Election 2012: Aftermath & Aftershocks," FRC president Tony Perkins told Senior Vice President Tom McClusky that LGBT marriage rights were still "morally wrong" even though pro marriage eqaulity measures passed in Maine, Maryland and Washington. Voters in Minnesota also defeated a proposed amendment to codify marriage discrimination in the state's constitution.

"The people can vote on it -- it's the first time we've seen that [pass] -- courts can rule on it, but I don't think you can violate natural law and force Americans to recognize it as morally right," Perkins explained.

"I think the term for a lot of things over the next four years, civil disobedience is going to come into play," McClusky agreed.

As Think Progress noted, Orthodox, Catholic, and Evangelical Christian leaders also called for civil disobedience against marriage equality when they drafted the Manhattan Declaration in 2009.

The Family Research Council (FRC) has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for its efforts to falsely link gay men to pedophilia.

"The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people," SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok said earlier this year.

Watch this video from the Family Research Council via Right Wing Watch, broadcast Nov. 7, 2012.