Good As You: FRC Roundup
11/18/2009
Rasping Berry: Tony Perkins knocks yet another Obama administration gay
It's not just Chai Feldblum (or Kevin Jennings before that). The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins is now turning the wantonly pointed guns towards OPM Director John Berry, for seemingly no other reason than the fact that he's a gay...
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Video: FRC invited Chai to speak; now slicing both her footage and her back
In order to smear out lesbian Chai Feldblum as one of the "radicals" who has done more "damage to the family" than President Obama himself (their words), the Family Research Council has created this video: Only thing? We remember this...
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11/13/2009
Smoke 'em out: FRC takes another rip off inequality's bong
"Not that long ago the American Medical Association (AMA) lightened its stance on marijuana laws, which is the only explanation I can think of for their recent decisions to oppose state marriage protection laws and come out in favor of...
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11/05/2009
They intimidate, says Tony the anti-equality intimidator
Age 8: Lil' Tony Perkins: I was just sitting here eating my sandwiches, and they went and complained on me. intimidation is what they do best Principal Orak Bobama: But Lil' Tony, didn't you actually take their sandwiches away from...
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10/28/2009
Deceivers, Generally target our Attorney General
Attorney General Eric Holder was in Maine recently, that much is true. And it's also accurate to say that while there, he was asked to weigh in on Question One. But the story that is most notable to gay activists...
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10/26/2009
And before you get ideas, FRC: 'Good Morning America' doesn't mean entire nation's been officially 'good morninged'
The Washington Post has a blog called "Federal Eye," which tracks federal government goings on. That blog, like many others, begins each morning with a roundup post containing various news bits. Seeing as how the blog's name contains an ocular...
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It's just good for FRC that crimes against truth aren't tracked
While trying to discredit LGBT inclusive hate crimes legislation for the one billionth and seventh time, the Family Research Council has trotted out this claim: The FBI's statistics on hate crimes actually show a decrease in the number of hate...
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10/18/2009
Drop the ACT, Family Research Council! We know what's UP.
In the early 1980s, a crisis of unimagined proportions hit America. And while it was an American problem, that's not the way it was received or viewed by countless many. Because, ya see, this crisis happened to hit the gay...
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10/16/2009
FRC's single-minded obsession is what should really go!
This is how the Family Research Council's website looks as of 8:52AM (highlighting ours): Ya know, because replacing their whole site with a big pic of Kevin with a scarlet "GAY" written on his face would've been too subtle. [::excruciatingly...
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10/15/2009
Sprigg says we're obsessed with homo-sex; we wonder if he made claim into a mirror
Someone please help the Family Research Council's Peter "I'd prefer to export homosexuals" Sprigg remove the up from his tight: It seems that homosexual activist groups can’t even raise money without using sexual innuendo. I happen to be on the...
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10/13/2009
FRC: Their cold onslaught is nothing new. But why the cold feet?
The following bit of text is an offensive, out-of-line, unwarranted attack on an entire group of human beings. So for the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, it's really nothing new. Accusing gays of "choosing their behaviors," intimating that Matt Shepard's...
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10/08/2009
Audio: On Jennings, far-right shows nation's crippling need for listening comprehension classes
In a 2000 speech, Kevin Jennings, the anti-bullying hero that the far-right is demonizing simply because it's gay people to whom Kevin has directed his anti-bullying efforts, said the following about LGBT people, the need to respect ALL people, and...
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10/07/2009
The big [only straights should] bang theory
We all know that the evangelical social conservatives are, as a movement, about as globally warmed up to the idea of evolution as they are evolved on the issue of global warming. We also know that a couple-of-thousands-year-old existence is...
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10/01/2009
Family Research embraces deception; also: sky is still blue
Responding to the "controversy" that the far-right has been drumming up about the way he handled a teen student who once revealed a same-sex encounter with a man (of unspecified age), Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools head Kevin Jennings...
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09/30/2009
Perception as a weapon: We'd de-arm both employers and Tony P.
In order to help make their anti-ENDA case, "pro-family" folks like the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins have been turning to attacks on the "perceived sexual orientation" aspect of the measure, saying dismissive things about those who've filed discrimination suits...
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09/21/2009
FRC finally questions a Dubya
Because of the progressive organization's support for equality, the Family Research Council's Tom McCluskey asks of his readers, "What DOES the “W” Stand for in NOW?": NOW, formerly known as the National Organization for Women, has come out strongly for...
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09/03/2009
♪Tale as old as time, wrongs as old as rhyme... ♪
Who's really being willfully, negligently inciteful in the Carrie Prejean situation? Is it the gays, who have firmly but fairly responded to Carrie's inaccurate, semi-inarticulate answer about their civil freedom (and her subsequent siding with groups like NOM to continue...
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08/27/2009
Perkins takes on the president, film's most famous sheepherders
OMG -- Please tell us that Tony Perkins does not really begin this video by saying "from Saddleback to Brokeback" I mean don't get us wrong -- we're not offended. A touching love story that details two men who were...
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08/24/2009
ME: CA pastor to Clark in for fallacious duty
During the Proposition 8 fight, San Diego pastor Chris Clark's niche was to constantly repeat the canard that if CIVIL marriage equality is to become the law of the land, then his career asa preacher will be drastically impacted. We...
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08/13/2009
Reasoned, principled stands: They say 'impeach!'; we say, 'Mmmm, peachy'
California Attorney General Jerry Brown, per his considerable legal training, has come right out and said that he see Proposition 8 as unconstitutional. Therefore, he's not going to defend it in federal court. Here, let him explain it to you...
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08/10/2009
FRC goes P.C. (but not in the way you'd hope)
This notorious, widely inaccurate claim comes from discredited researcher Paul Cameron, an independent "researcher" who was kicked out of the APA in 1983 and who's been laughed out of all credible scientific circles for almost as long: Smokers and drug...
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08/06/2009
(D)-Moan, Iowa
Speaking about the Iowa marriage equality ruling, a Family Research Council writer (credited as president Tony Perkins) writes the following: Moreover, the Iowa Supreme Court imposed homosexual marriage against the people's wishes earlier this year in Varnum v. Brien. How...
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07/24/2009
At least he didn't call it a homo-cide
In 2008, the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg earned widespread ire when he said that he'd like export gays from the United States. And while Pete was later forced to apologize for that egregious suggestion, he doesn't seem to have...
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07/22/2009
Bias by us: Reported 90K sign on to bringing pain to Maine
This snip comes from the Family Research Council: Mainers are sending a strong message to their elected officials, who voted in May to redefine marriage. Needing roughly 56,000 petition signatures to place a "People's Veto" of this legislation on the...
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07/21/2009
270 and counting
When the Family Research Council signed the National Organization For Marriage to sponsor the "New Media Row" at their upcoming Values Voters Summit, we can't imagine that this is the sort of new media result that FRC was hoping to...
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07/17/2009
Dear Family Research Council:
When protesting a measure that is all about human lives and violent attacks upon the same (no matter how much you overlook that meritorious point), it's probably best to stay away from imagery that looks very close to a portrait...
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07/15/2009
Video: Shameless desperation
The Family Research Council have recruited a U.S. congressman and U.S Senator, risking their reputations on the hope that viewers of this video will not independently research the untruths that they and their socially conservative friends are spouting. Check out...
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07/08/2009
When it comes to advancing peace, FRC's motion is loco
This story is from 2007: A boy of 15 lay down in front of a train to commit suicide after being teased at school about his sexuality, an inquest was told yesterday. Moments before he died, Jonathan Reynolds sent harrowing...
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07/06/2009
FRC writer's own source link: It's like Pinocchio linking to his own growing nose
Wanna see Family Research Council spinjob in action? Well here, check this out. This is what FRC has to say about a new poll covering New Hampshire governor John Lynch: After Gov. John Lynch (D-N.H.) betrayed voters and signed a...
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07/01/2009
Perkins: Waah! We don't get to stall this bill like we have in the past. Waah!
Of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy's (R-VT) plan to finally get inclusive hate crimes legislation passes after the July 4th break, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or his ghostwriter) today says the following: In a letter to members...
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06/29/2009
They hate him because he's a progressive gay. Period.
Over the past month or so, we've routinely been disgusted by the way the far-right social conservatives are defaming Kevin Jennings, a decent human being who has dedicated his life to making public schooling easier for LGBT kids and teens,...
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05/28/2009
FRC: Fallacious Reproduction Citations
Oh the poor, myopic Family Research Council. In a new bit that's attributed to FRC president Tony Perkins, the professionally anti-gay decry Ted Olson and David Boies' new case against Prop 8 by saying the following: Ironically, the very first...
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05/21/2009
You know that part of 'The Boxer' that goes 'lie, lie, lie.'? Yea, well...
In the daily column that they attribute to president Tony Perkins, the Family Research Council has repeated the ridiculous lie that New Hampshire's Cornerstone Policy Research managed to survey every last household in the state in two days. The very...
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05/20/2009
When FRC calls, don't pretend you're not home-o!
This July 5, The Family Research Council is asking evangelicals nationwide to fall on their knees and pray that our nation rejects, among other things, LGBT rights progression. They are calling it: Call 2 Fall [A FRC project] In reaction...
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05/15/2009
Supremely frustrating: FRC gives glimpse of forthcoming denunciations
Regarding reports that California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno is on President Obama's shortlist of potentials to robe up for the federal Supremes, the Family Research Council's Tom McClusky says: Justice Moreno spun out of air a “right” to same-sex...
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05/06/2009
Council votes 12-1, Congress seems on-board. But watch out for Carol Fillmore!
Of yesterday's D.C. Council vote in favor of recognizing same-sex marriages that have been performed elsewhere, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or ghostwriter) today writes the following: Fortunately, there has been enough of an uproar in the District that...
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04/28/2009
FRC: Finally Relinquishing Conceit?
We never thought we'd see a day when the Family Research Council seemed to be conceding (a) that they don't know everything about the GOP's direction, (b) that unfavorable polling is actually accurate, and (c) that young people are makably...
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04/22/2009
Gays shut out opposition, says he whose career involves shutting out gays
About the whole Miss California controversy, the Family Resarch Council's Tony Perkins (or his ghostwriter )says the following: For the rest of us who fight this demonization every day, it's a different venue but the same old liberal strategy: intimidate...
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04/17/2009
Sprigg's VT blame game (emphasis on game)
Many have tried. Few, however, can twist and spin like the Family Research Council's Peter "let's export homosexuals" Sprigg. In a new post to FRC's blog, Sprigg builds a multi-layered attack on Vermont, wherein he blames gays for "desensitizing" the...
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Yea, Tony? That figure's honest? See nothing false about the witness you've borne? Interesting.
Fearful that the momentum is with New York to finally pass marriage equality this legislative session, Tony Perkins and his Family Research Council cohorts are working the idea that the Empire State is against fairness for gay couples. In a...
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04/10/2009
Ungoverned attacks: Organized anti-gays vs. democracy
The Family Research Council, in their indomitable drive to stop LGBT rights at any cost, is now up to discrediting and undermining a whopping two of American government's three fundamental branches: Once respected for measured leadership that helped steady the...
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04/09/2009
Rice-A-roni, Ghiradhelli, sourdough, and equality. YUM!
Warning, Iowa: Those pesky "San Francisco values" are coming to getcha. At least according to the Family Research Council: In the wake of the Iowa State Supreme Court's outrageous decision to impose San Francisco values on an unwilling public, Iowans...
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04/08/2009
Subject: Please stop implying that we're assassins
Dear Social Conservatives, We know your goal is to make the LGBT community seem like unsavory militants whose lives run counter to all that is good, right, and holy in this world. But can you all do us a solid...
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04/03/2009
Tony on Tony, both of whom are against Tonys being on Tonys
Reacting to the news that former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy has been invited to join the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins offers up the following statement: "I encourage him to...
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04/01/2009
FRC: Fallacious Reasoning Continues
Truth, schmuth. For the Family Research Council, it seems a handful of cherry-picked anti-gay condemnations are more biblically sound than the book's ideas about not bearing false witness: A "hate crimes" law is really a "thought crime" law that punishes...
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03/13/2009
Dent in the tent: Tony threatens to grab sleeping bag and go home
As predicted, the social conservatives are starting to come out against Michael Steele for, among other things, his quasi-positive comments regarding homosexuality. This one comes from the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins (or whoever writes his stuff): Earlier this week...
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03/05/2009
Hey, it's only democracy we're talking about -- why not rev up an ignorant turf war?
This pic, anti-intellectualism at its worst, comes from the Family Research Council: Ya know, because it's not that the judges are a crucial part of constitutional democracy. It's not that the judges have a vested interest in protecting majority rights....
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02/23/2009
Wherein Tony Perkins justifies all of our earlier points
Earlier today we posted a lengthy piece detailing why we felt a suggested marriage "reconciliation" that appeared as an Op-Ed in this weekend's New York Times could never, ever work. Now, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins is lashing out...
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02/13/2009
There's no hetero story to which Tony can't attach gay blame
Who's to "blame" for Nadya Suleman's octo-birth? Lesbians, natch: From Tony Perkins/FRC Ya know, because an unmarried, food stamps-claiming mother seeking a multi-birth via IVF is EXACTLY the same scenario as a stable lesbian couple seeking to conceive a sole...
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02/12/2009
AP link love: What's the formula?
So this is a little weird. On the AP's story about this morning's protest at NYC's marriage bureau, they are running this footnote: On the Net: Marriage Equality USA: http://www.marriageequality.org Join the Impact: http://jointheimpact.com Family Research Council: http://www.frc.org The first...
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