Good As You: FRC Roundup
03/03/2011
Now comes the part of the week day minute where FRC tells us how 'immoral', 'harmful', 'ungodly' we are
And now, Washington's largest special interest group dedicated to the so-called "values issues" within our shared public policy will remind you that their interpretation of God shut out any and all civil debate long, long ago: - May Congress stand...
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03/02/2011
T. Perkins, as unswayed by teen movie law as he is Equal Protection, thinks cocky is path to happy ending
Family Research Council head Tony Perkins writes in USA Today: "The biggest trophy that gay activists now seek is the redefinition of marriage. Currently, only five states allow same-sex marriages. How can a team leading 45-5 be losing? Where the...02/28/2011
Hey CBN: Why not ask Peter Sprigg about 'exporting' or criminalizing certain humans?
Another responsibility-shirking piece from a sympathetic outlet: [CBN] Ooh, ooh -- our turn: Here's Peter Sprigg saying he'd like to see gays "exported" or criminalized: *SOURCE: Gays seek immigration reform [Medill Reports] *SOURCE: MSNBC No Peter -- we certainly don't...02/25/2011
FRC's 'state of marriage': A picture worth a thousand 'you're factually wrongs!'
If The Family Research Counsel thinks they know so much more about DOMA, marriage, and constitutional law than the rest of us, then they really should look at their own, silly "Defend DOMA" site: [FRC's "Defend DOMA" site] For on...02/24/2011
Partisan special interest group tells nation's churches how to think/vote/pray
President Obama has directed the Department of Justice to not defend in our civil court system a federal law (DOMA) pertaining to civil marriage. So naturally, Family Research Council staffers are responding the best way they know how: By instructing...02/18/2011
FRC's national picture: Slightly lesbiany with a chance of bisexuality
There's so much going in this nation, with so many states in need of reform/repair. Deep divisions that halt progress. Money wells that have dried up in scary ways. Unemployment putting a strain on oh so many families. Not to...02/12/2011
HA! @frcaction thinks @EqualityMD is scared of 'export/criminalize gays' guy
Oh now this is cute. The Family Research Council thinks we equality activists are fearful of Peter Sprigg: Who knew that FRC's experts could actually strike fear in the hearts of gay activists? Apparently, Peter Sprigg's mere presence at the...02/10/2011
FRC's Values Voters invitees: Tim Pawlenty, we hardly recognize you
In an obvious move to position their conference as the conservative alternative to the current press-grabber that is CPAC, the Family Research Council has announced their invited speakers list for Values Voters Summit 2011. And ya know, FRC might just...02/09/2011
FRC's new marriage brochure: Has skewed cake, research that eats it too
The latest Family Research Council "Gay marriage will eat your children" fear brochure comes packed with many, many annoyances. A claim that same-sex marriages would eat up "taxpayer money that homosexuals are eager to get their hands on," as if...02/08/2011
'How to activi-preach on marriage', with Peter Sprigg
As a Family Research Council V.P., Peter Sprigg spends his days going on television to talk about why gays would be better off being exported from the U.S.... *SOURCE: Gays seek immigration reform [Medill Reports] ...or perhaps thrown in jail:...01/31/2011
'Dire' situation: There's conversation to be had here -- just not the one Tony Perkins is having
Okay, (A) In "Money For Nothing," the word in question is "f*ggot." And yes, that word absolutely does mean the same thing today that it meant in 1985. (B) That aforementioned word is not even in the same ballpark as...01/26/2011
No, FRC: We said the wedding is semi-formal, not chain mail and rapier!
As a legally married gay man, I really do have to wonder sometimes what, exactly, groups like the Family Research Family Council hope to do to my family: [SOURCE for FRC's ridiculous graphic] Because come on: A sword-wielding knight? For...Perkins uses his missionary position to knock 'unhealthy and destructive' millions
Tony Perkins: "Tonight President Obama recognized the important role of parents in the educational achievement of their children. President Obama himself has set an example as a father and husband. However, the agenda he has pursued and articulated tonight does...01/25/2011
Fox News give Tony Perkins yet another free pass
I actually have a theory that Tony Perkins is raising a stink over CPAC more because he wants to raise the profile of his own, alternative conference, the Values Voters Summit, than to protest gay conservatives' attendance at the former....01/17/2011
Globes had 'offensive agenda', says group that finds glee in denying gay kids are all right
The Family Research Council's assessment of last night's Golden Globes: As in past years, the Globes proved that studios are far less concerned about entertaining people than they with indoctrinating them. Last night's awards were a celebration -- not of...01/14/2011
CBN helps Peter 'Teflon' Sprigg apply another coat
The Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg pretty much single-handedly crippled his host organization's reputation when he made comments calling for gays to be "exported" or criminalized: *SOURCE: Gays seek immigration reform [Medill Reports] *SOURCE: MSNBC That's just a fact. Because...01/10/2011
So which is it, FRC: Is Daniel a hero or an 'anomaly' who shouldn't be 'normalized'?
The Family Research Council's latest "Washington Update": [SOURCE] Hey FRC: You know how you could help reduce America's finger pointing literally overnight? You could stop giving the middle finger to all humans that fall outside of your personally-palatable purview! We...01/07/2011
Video: We see FRC's 'belonging' and 'rejection', raise them an 'exportation'
Foster Belonging, end rejection: Except for LGBT teens: *SOURCE: Gays seek immigration reform [Medill Reports]12/23/2010
FRC staffer likens U.S. to Sodom and Gomorrah; we wonder if Biblical city had universal healthcare
And now more Christmas cheer from Bob Maginnis, the Family Research Council's Senior Fellow for National Security: "I've heard from commanders who are saying, 'Well, we may not be able to tolerate that sort of [assertion] about homosexuality.' What about...12/22/2010
But if we're deported and jailed on a remote island, we won't care if you call us 'vermin'
So quick question: If you were given the choice between (a) being called "vermin" because of who you are and who you love or (b) being exported or jailed for the same, which option would you choose? We ask, because...12/19/2010
Tragic day for [groups that asked Santa for gay-less America]
SPLC-designated hate group Family Research Council responds to DADT repeal: “Today is a tragic day for our armed forces. The American military exists for only one purpose – to fight and win wars. Yet it has now been hijacked and...12/16/2010
FRC really knows how to advance a cause. Ours.
The Family Research Council's newest strategy at this late DADT hour: Building on the idea that openly heterosexual soldiers are on the cusp of fleeing or dying, thanks to the so-called homosexual agenda: Winter isn't officially upon us until next...Even Google Images knows FRC horses around
When one searches the Family Research Council's ridiculous 'Start Debating, Stop Hating" effort in Google images, the second result tells the Googler all he or she really needs to know about FRC's style of debating: [SOURCE] Yup, that's right: it's...Start Debunking | Stop Waiting
[click for full size] *** *EARLIER: *We scooped FRC on their campaign by five days: Exclusive: FRC to launch responsibility-shirking 'Start Debating, Stop Hating' campaign *FRC finally launches it: FRC's late 'Start/Stop' *We note just a few of the incendiary...12/15/2010
FRC's 'Start Debating, Stop Hating' effort: Let's look at some of those aligned debaters, shall we?
Matt Barber: Gay male relationships constitute "one man violently cramming his penis into another man’s lower intestine and calling it ‘love’” Lou Engle: “If we’re struggling with a homosexual, same-sex desire, LET THE BIBLE KILL YOU, rather than make it...FRC's late 'Start/Stop'
We scooped them on it by five days, creating a scenario where our post (both the initial version and aggregated versions on other sites) has completely Google-clobbered the actual effort itself: You didn't really need that thunder we stole, did...12/14/2010
Reid's DADT plan: So covert, you'll only hear about it on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, C-SPAN, web live streams, numerous blogs, Congressional records, The Pentagon Channel, Senators' own press releases....
It's one thing for the Family Research Council to stand against Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal. But really -- this graphic? [SOURCE] Because what we're talking about is an issue that President Obama mentioned on the campaign trail and in...12/10/2010
Exclusive: FRC to launch responsibility-shirking 'Start Debating, Stop Hating' campaign
We've uncovered an unreleased document that the Family Research Council will soon launch as part of a currently-unannounced campaign to spin their placement on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate groups list: FRC's ridiculous attempt to spin the SPLC list...12/09/2010
We're merely mainstream, says leader of group where criminalization, deportation, 'enemy'-possession, and horse-shtooping are all on the table
More convenient dancing: "[W]ith what authority does the SPLC have the right to decide who is hateful and by what standard? This group has been soundly discredited before, but they are now propped up by this administration and it will...12/07/2010
Ironically, when it comes to the military, it's FRC that can't play it straight
Oh, Family Research Council flaws and offenses and outright untruths: Let us count the ways: Nor do I think the British model of "recruiting at gay pride parades" is worth replicating. According to U.K. officials, that's where they've been forced...12/02/2010
Video: Chris Matthews grabs tweezers, plucks biased splinter group
Good for Chris Matthews and his "Hardball" team: MSNBC's Chris Matthews Corrects and Discredits FRC Misinformation [PHB] Thanks to everyone who emailed, tweeted, blogged, and pushed back against Tony's continued lies and misrepresentations! While it's easy for us to get...12/01/2010
Video: FRC's wacky #DADT hoedown
Most of the Family Research Council's Don't Ask Don't Tell press conference was dreadfully boring. Our reactions were pretty close to the guy on the right: But then around the 49:30 mark, president Tony Perkins disappears to places unknown, fill-in...And guess what, FRC V.P.? GAY SOLDIERS FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO FAITHFULLY CONDEMN THEM!
The Family Research Council's Senior Vice President, Rob Schwarzwalder, comes right out and admits the obvious: That opponents of open service want their personally-held faith views written into law. Period: What Sec. Gates seems to have tried to articulate, but...Bull-Shhhhhhh: Far-right won't shut up about supposed 'silencing'
In light of recent events like the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate group additions and the removal of the anti-LGBT Manhattan Declaration app from Apple's iTunes Store (a public awareness campaign that began on this site, btw), social conservatives keep...11/29/2010
Video: Potok, Matthews play 'Hardball'; Tony Perkins sticks with 'Pretend'
From today's "Hardball": [MSNBC] *** *SEE ALSO: Our roundup of some of the other affronts that landed FRC on the SPLC's list. *** *Some brief notes on the piece: *NOTE 1: Let's not forget that Peter Sprigg has also called...LexiCON: It's time we stop allowing Tony Perkins' vocabul-lusions
We all know that "adhere to traditional family values" is far-right code-wording for a host of discriminatory things, most prominently resistance to LGBT people. So in the following joint quote from Tony Perkins and Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis from newly-listed...11/26/2010
Dish it, can't take it: FRC pissed that people are calling them on their crap
As predicted, the Family Research Council is lashing out against the respected Southern Poverty Law Center for adding the anti-LGBT group to their latest hate groups list. Just as predictably: FRC is completely overlooking the clearly documented findings that landed...11/24/2010
FRC to livestream military discrimination's last gasps
The Family Research Council, ever desperate in the face of good DADT news, is holding yet another webcast in support of military bias. Unlike last time, they won't be using Bryan "homosexuals in the military...gave us six million dead Jews"...11/22/2010
SPLC hate groups: 5 more anti-LGBT orgs to enter annals
Holy crap: Via Truth Wins Out, we see that the Southern Poverty Law Center has released a piece profiling Of 18 anti-gay organizations and has announced that they will be adding 5 new organizations to their list of active anti-gay...11/18/2010
In this DADT discourse draft, we totally have Tony's number!
In a new commentary for Daily Caller, Tony Perkins fear-mongerily warns that if DADT repeal goes through, then the President will have to reinstate the draft. So okay, fine. Whatever. Tony Perkins has more than proven himself willing to say...11/01/2010
Video: They want to shut down speech, says group that demonstrably shuts down speech
It's of course laughable that groups like the Family Research Council and figures like anti-gay Congressman Steve King (Very Far R-Iowa) could ever be the victims in an anti-equality "culture war" that only exists because of their own resistance to...10/26/2010
'Abnormal' obsession: Career voice of anti-gayness slurs LGBT teens (again)
The latest from Family Research Council president Tony Perkins: [Tony] Perkins: Gay Teens Are Suicidal Because They Know They Are "Abnormal" [RightWingWatch] Well of course Tony thinks we're abnormal: He's already revealed on multiple occasions how he thinks we're "held...10/21/2010
'Army not a toy,' says grown man who wants G.I. Joes subjected to his Moral Monopoly
Tony Perkins has spoken: "In the middle of two wars, it's wrong to treat the military as a political yo-yo." [SOURCE] Hmm...active items treated like personal playthings, repeatedly smacked down by larger hands? String-pulling that's easily tangled up by even...10/15/2010
'The wrong side of history' is the only label we need
In just the fifth line of his recent commentary for The Washington Post online, law professor Menachem Z. Rosensaft demands that those who are assessing the modern "culture war" climate detach their personal feelings from the realities of the historical...10/12/2010
And now in undeserved credence news: WaPo gives anti-bullying ink to man who says gays 'are held captive by the enemy'
On numerous occasions, we've mentioned how bizarre/frustrating/unacceptable it is for the mainstream media to continue to put Family Research Council president Tony Perkins on TV and in print, citing him as little more than a mere "pro-family" voice of dissent...10/08/2010
Audio: 'It doesn't matter what society does' says duo that claims gays don't matter in society
Tony Perkins is a man who tells church congregations that gays are being "held captive by the enemy," who tells the military that the open service-supporting Commander in Chief is "willing to jeopardize our nation’s security to advance the agenda...10/07/2010
