Tony Perkins On Marriage: We're Several Touchdowns Behind, But We'll Win

Hate group leader Tony Perkins says that the opponents of same-sex marriage have been reinvigorated by last month's Vatican meeting, where the Pope's message was "like getting a halftime pep talk in the locker room." Go for the Hail Mary!

Ted Olson and Tony Perkins Face Off Over SCOTUS and Marriage Equality

AFER lawyer Ted Olson and Family Research Council President Tony Perkins exchanged sharp words on FOX News Sunday in a panel covering this week's Supreme Court reverberations on marriage equality.

Perkins, the leader of a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, brought his usual "natural marriage" nonsense and related arguments which Olson too politely called a "canard".

Said Perkins: "You still have two circuits that have decisions coming up that look favorable toward natural marriage. I think the effect here is what you need to look at. I think the effect here is that the court did a back-alley type Roe V Wade judicial decision that let the lower courts do their evil bidding...The court has lit the fuse to a powder keg culturally that is going to have ramifications for years to come in this nation.”

Replied Olson: "We have a Constitution and a Bill Of Rights precisely because we want protections from majority rule. When the majority in a legislature or a popular vote take away rights of individuals that are protected by the Bill Of Rights, then we have an independent judiciary to rectify that situation. It's happened again and again and again throughout this country's history...There’s no heterosexual couple that is going to decide to get a divorce or not get married or not raise children just because another couple next to them is treated equally and with respect."

Watch it all go down:

Tony Perkins: Liberals Hate Free Speech

"This is how radical liberals work -- they try to silence and smear, instead of discuss and debate. We've witnessed that up close and personal on issues like marriage. Instead of practicing the tolerance they say they want, these anti-freedom extremists fiercely target anyone they disagree with. Tiny family businesses like the Kleins', whose only offense is trying to operate their cake store in line with their religious beliefs. Large corporations like Hobby Lobby, who feel that they shouldn't have to pay for pills that violate their conscience. And everyday conservatives, whose own senators were trying to junk the First Amendment to keep voters from speaking the truth about their radically liberal records. The Left will do anything to steamroll the opposition. If anything's criminal, it's the liberals' totalitarian tactics!" 

- Hate group leader Tony Perkins, via press release.

Tony, 

Sorry you feel your first amendment rights are being infringed upon. However, they have not! Have you be arrested and thrown in jail for being a bigot? Have you been fined by the government? If not then you aren't having your rights infringed upon. We, however have freedom of speech too. We simply want to be able to say "I do." That baker wasn't forced to sell a cake to the lesbian couple. They had a choice they could either sell the cake or not be in business. They made their choice. No need to whine about it all over creation.

Most sincerely,

A Homo's Thoughts Blog

Right Wing Lather Over Anticipated Executive Order Protecting LGBT Workers

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The political and religious right has long been up in arms over what it says is an excessive number of executive orders signed by President Barack Obama, but the anticipated signing of an order that would bar discrimination by government contractors against LGBT workers is generating even more heat.

Tony Perkins, the famously anti-gay head of the Family Research Council -- a group that purports to represent the interests of American families, but seems to exclude, and indeed target, families headed by same-sex couples -- issued an email in which he derided the expected executive order as "coercion," and shunned LGBT workers as being "sexually confused."

The email was the subject of a posting at gay news site JoeMyGod. Perkins also slammed Gay Pride Month.

""After 30 days of nonstop, in-your-face celebration, the White House is capping off ’gay pride’ month with its biggest gift yet," Perkins railed. "Next Monday, the pot of gold at the end of this President’s rainbow is an executive order giving special workplace benefits to the sexually confused.

"For the far-Left, it caps off a long fight to get the administration to do what Congress has not: order employers to put aside their profits, principles, and practices in the name of political correctness," the blast from Perkins thundered on. "The President’s order implementing part of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) -- once considered ’too radical’ even for his own party -- forces government contractors and subcontractors to hire gays, lesbians, transvestites, and transsexuals -- regardless of their legally protected morals."

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Perkins Cheers Florida AG Pam Bondi

"If you're looking for political leadership, skip the White House and head straight for Florida. There, Attorney General Pam Bondi is more than making up for the vacuum of courage in D.C. and governor's mansions across the country with a powerful defense of democracy. Florida's chief law enforcer seems to have a better grasp on her job than the man who holds the country's highest. Together with state officials who have offered a strong defense of marriage in Utah, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, Idaho, Michigan, Colorado, and at least 19 other states, Bondi took what, until recently, was a noncontroversial position for someone in her role: upholding her state's law. While other 'leaders' in her position have thrown in the towel on their most fundamental duty, Pam refused. In the marriage debate, leadership like Attorney General Bondi's is tough to come by. Do your part to thank her for her courage by sending her a message." - Hate group leader Tony Perkins, via email.

Tony Perkins Has The Oregon Sadz

"This is another lawless decision that the Supreme Court has not provided any precedent for. The Supreme Court has said nothing that would give a federal judge the right to redefine marriage. In fact, the Supreme Court has granted stays in comparable cases which this judge failed to do. The judge's disregard for the rule of law and for the voters of Oregon is breathtaking. The state's failure to defend its own constitution, and the failure of an openly homosexual judge to recuse himself, demonstrate that this decision is without basis.

"If the courts believe they are going to resolve this issue once and for all by forcing a redefinition of marriage on the American people, they are wrong. The far reaching decision inRoe v. Wade was intended to resolve the issue of abortion, which 41 years later we know conclusively it did not. The definition of marriage, like the sanctity of human life, is seen in the natural or moral law. The decisions of courts can ignore it, they can even attempt to suppress it, but they will never eradicate it." - KKK affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins, via press release.

Fox News Welcomes Hate Group Leader to Discuss the Veto of Arizona's Anti-Gay Bill

In a particularly offensive, though not entirely surprising segment, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly asked Family Research Council president Tony Perkins about his thoughts regarding Gov. Jan Brewer's veto of Arizona SB1062, which would have allowed business owners and other individuals to refuse service to gay and lesbian patrons based on religious beliefs. Perkins proceeded to demonize the decision, stating that "this is how fundamental freedoms are trampled."

He also denied the relevance of comparing African-American civil rights struggles of the 1950's and 60's and today's issues, saying that most places in Arizona would still allow racial discrimination. But would that happen? "No, because people aren't going to do that," according to Perkins, who in one fell swoop both confirmed and denied the existence of race-based discrimination while continuing to reinforce his own homophobic view, that gay and lesbian people do deserve to have "that," discrimination, directed towards them. 

Media Matters reports:

[Megyn] Kelly's decision to host Perkins to discuss the veto without questioning his rhetoric or providing another guest to counter his views marks an unfortunate reversal from her comments the day before, wherein she acknowledged that Arizona's anti-gay bill was "potentially dangerous." Unfortunately, Perkins' regular status as a Fox guest is in keeping with the network's ongoing attempt to suppress gay rights by suggesting that the religious views of business owners should allow them to discriminate against gay customers.