When the "It Gets Better" project
was taking the media world by storm, Family Research Council president
Tony Perkins wrote the following about the effort and its supposed
goals:
Because to Tony, it's "appalling" and "disgusting" to simply tell
LGBT youth that life, no matter how hard it is now, will someday get
better. Not a huge surprise, considering he's compared his own kids' theoretical homosexuality to drug abuse.
But Tony was not alone in condemning the "It Gets Better" (IGB)
project. Concerned Women For America's Penny Nance, who has referred to
gay teens as "probably troubled kids in a number of ways" and spoken against their self-acceptance, condemned an "IGB" ad as a "new tolerance for homosexuals campaign disguised as anti-bullying." When a popular primetime program ran the ad, Nance wrote that the show "lured us into a false sense of security and broke trust with us last night."
Because, again, apparently telling LGBT youth that they are okay is
out of line to Nance and Perkins. It's propaganda, if you will.