In a plea to raise more money and further spread propaganda to degrade and demonize the LGBTQ community, the anti-gay — and certified “hate group” — Family Research Council has taken aim at the Obama White House.
In a letter sent to supporters last week, FRC president Tony Perkins labeled the “It Gets Better Project” videos made last fall and spring by President Barack Obama, Vice-President Joe Biden, and other top administration officials — “disgusting.”
Perkins accused the White House of recruiting children into homosexuality, labeling it a “lifestyle.”
The “It Gets Better” video project was founded by Seattle based LGBT activist and columnist Dan Savage and his husband Terry Miller, in a response to an alarming series of LGBTQ youth and young adults committing suicide in 2010 as the result of bullying in the schools and communities across the United States.
In March 2011, the White House held its first ever Conference on Bullying Prevention to address what some have termed a pandemic of LGBT youth deaths directly caused by bullying. The White House has also endorsed the “It Gets Better Project” on its website, promoting the administration’s concern for the welfare all of the nation’s youth with particular emphasis on queer youth whom are at a higher risk for being the targets of bullying.
Statistics show that nearly 9 out of 10 LGBT youth (86.2%) reported being harassed at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation, and 3 out of 5 LGBT youth (60.8%) felt unsafe at school because of their sexual orientation, according to GLSEN.
The Family Research Council has been designated one of 13 “hate groups” by the Southern Poverty Law Center for spreading known falsehoods and demonizing propaganda aimed at gays and lesbians, and other sexual minorities.
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You know what’s disgusting? Unjustified hatred.
Not selfless love.
He needs a reality check.
Hate group president Tony Perkins wants GLBT people to kill themselves. That’s just too hateful for words.
>:( YOUR disgusting Tony, these videos are to give LGBT kids a chance to see that they actually can have someone to go to and someone who understands whats going on in there lives. Your a disgusting pig Mr Perkins.
*Megs*
Horrible man .
Ignorance is disgusting, this guy should take a look at himself and be careful with what he says D:
He’s a white supremacist, so he’s well versed in hate.
You’re disgusting. It Gets Better helps people not look down on themselves and kill themselves. Go to hell
Dislike!!!
And I call Tony Perkins a bigoted prick
I thought he was an adult? Guess he’s a little hating elementary kid who has nothing better to do than to pick on the gays! Asshole needs to die.
*sigh* Haters gonna hate
He looks gay to me…..
It’s sad. I know we are going to always have “haters”, but it seems they are coming out of the wood work this year.
Save a baby seal. Club this asshole to death.
What FRC is doing is the truely discusting thing.
Tony Perkins is what a person completely devoid of compassion looks like. Instead of hiding behind his obfuscating rhetoric, he should just come right out and say that he wants queer youth dead.
For starters, he’s a dick. No sugarcoating it, no phrasing it nicely. He’s a dick. He’s broken the number one cardinal rule of being a man; HAVE one, don’t BE one.
Moving on, why does every self-righteous, ignorant, homophobic sonovacunt want to say that the LGBTQ community hates Christians and their values? We don’t hate until hated on, and only have issue with the ones who try to start shit. Christians are cool. The sane ones anyway. No problem with them.
Besides, I think it’s pretty damn clear who’s hating who here. So yeah. He needs to crawl into a hole, preferably one with a nearly endless bottom, and take all of his little brainwashed cult-like followers with him.
He’s a very sick man.
Yes we wouldn’t want teenagers to be dissuaded from offing themselves. When will the lamestream media wake up and stop giving that bigoted closet case a microphone?
mr.whatever yo damn face is,
Being one of he LGBT nation the so called “lifestyle” is not agenst the law. Its a free country. We are free to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, and or transgender. It is part of our rights. And we have just enough rights to be appart the so called “lifestyle” as you do or any one else of the U.S has a right to be apart of the office type thing. Ight get over it free country……
So, according to him, making kids feel like they’re worth something, and keeping them alive is disgusting? I’m so tired of these idiots…
Oh yes, because creating a project in order to inspire hope and save many lives is “disgusting.” If anyone is disgusting, it is him. What a horrible person. :|
These idiot right wingers have nothing better to do.
Is it just me or did he just say he wants children to kill themselves?
This actually made me cry. :’(
Tony Perkins? Isn’t he the guy who played Norman Bates? Talk about type-casting!
Don’t worry…I am sure the fact that he does the Wonka willy wank to Vietnamese kiddie porn will come out eventually! ;o)
Never heard of the guy. Frankly, he’s a poor writer. In actual fact an act – such as filming the “It Gets Better” videos – wouldn’t be disgusting. Disgusting is traditionally used to describe a noun. “The disgusting dinner” . . . “That disgusting piece of sh*t Tony Perkins” . . . “Tony Perkins’ face is disgusting”, etc.
Yeah yeah…he’s just a windbag that needs to be deflated
Already a Facebook page for it…
Search for “Only A Matter of Time Until Tony Perkins’ Secret Boyfriend Comes Forward” in the search bar!
It gets better in spite of Tony Perkins!
It astounds me how much stupidity exists in this world….
Daily dose of political grandstanding? Check.
who’s tony perkins … never heard f him … not that I care even a little …
Tony Perkins…Another @sshole….
I wish you hadn’t put quotes around the words hate group. There’s absolutely no question that FRC is a hate group.
Recruiting??? Oh for God’s sake! What has you so fired up mister? Anything in your closet you don’t want to look at? Or are you just stupid? Ignorance and fear go hand in hand. Had my way, i’d kick you down the stairs.
Repeatedly.
Monstrous spavined mule-headed, cow-hocked, knock-kneed, lily-livered, toad-sucking poltroon.
his face and P$%is are disgusting thats why hell never love.. how ironic
people are bunch of fools i am glad they give us heads up
I call Perkins disgusting, he should go make out with the rest of his teabagging gang.
Thank Heaven I don’t have to clean out her Closet….
Facebook, seriously, we need a thumbs down button.
Some people just don’t want to understand.
Tony Perkins is just another one of the many that fit the exact opposite of a christian,He along with James Dobson,Pat Robertson,Rick Perry,Michell Bachman,Jim Demint,Virginia Foxx,Sally Kern,Louis Gomert and the list can go on and on including Fred Phelps and others,they are all part of the AMERICAN TALIBAN. Spreading their HATRED and FEAR,Thesse people are not true men of God.If Christ were to show back up here he would throw them straight to hell and vomit the taste of them from his mouth.
Tony Perkins and the FRC are both disgusting!!
Ignorance is the lack of “knowledge.” Stupidity is the refusal to accept “knowledge,” even when readily available. Evil is the fabrication, twisting, and/or cherrypicking of available “knowledge” to deceiptfully further your own agenda — sort of like claiming to be a devout Christian while ignoring the most basic tenets thereof.
Well Mr. Perkins, it is going to get better. I promise.
Tony “the Perv” Perkins is what’s disgusting.
if he had his way, LGBT folks would be beaten and tortured and hung to death in public. you know, like they do in the civilized world known as Pakistan or Saudi Arabia.
I’m sad for you Mr Perkins.. In so very many ways!
I’m seriously appalled at this. The government needs to step up and say it gets better. There is absolutely no reason why any kid for that matter gay or straight should be bullied in school and made to feel so bad about themselves that they commit suicide. The white house did a great deed by making those videos and this guy is such a tool that he wants you to believe it’s disgusting and immoral. What are you going to do Tony when your kid/grand kid whatever comes home from school and decides to off themselves because they’re gay, funny looking, over weight? Are you gonna wish some one told them it gets better? Ass hole.
Well said Ricky!
what does anyone expect? FRC is led by a true candidate for the anti-christ anyway
Low rent piece of shit.
When he was a little boy his mommy told him he would go to hell if he ever looked at another boy’s penis and now he is filled with self-loathing because now he looks at them whenever he can. He hears his mommy’s shrill nagging and feels the flames leaping at his feet.
I hope people con’t miss the point that “it gets better” videos are made to remind young and old that the bullying and the hatred, the anger and the demonizing will get easier to tolerate as you get older. These mean-spirited, so-called Christians will not ruin your life and your life will “get better”. The point is that you do NOT have to commit suicide becasue your neighbor, classmates or your Pastor told you you weren
t worth anything. It gets better and this man is evil.
This man is disgusting. Take a good look at yourself in the mirror Tony Perkins.
Shame on him.. seriously
This is disusting. This is not about “promoting being gay” or “encouraging perversion” this is about saving lives. This “man” clearly is the monster here. Even by his standards isn’t a life worth saving no matter what? To say this project is wrong is the exact same as saying that young people who are LGBT should be left to die.
TONY PERKINS ANSWER THIS: Is it better to leave young people to die or allow an “immoral” exist to protect life?
Tony Perktits has a history of ignorance of intolerance. PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!
However, absolutely awful this person is – wishing death on him is inappropriate and just feeds his (and his followers) extreme persecution complex.
What I hope for him is that he wakes up and realizes how unconscionable his actions and words are. I hope he figures out that he is essentially supporting the deaths of children, not protecting them.
I hope he wakes up from his delusional world view, and goes on television sobbing and asking forgiveness for all horrible crap his organization has supported. I hope he admits that they should feel guilty and carry responsibility for suffering and death. He should then apologize to every family he has hurt – by name – until he is hoarse from speaking for hours and hours, passing out from exhaustion.
Me thinks TONY PERKINS doth protesteth too much! FACT: Any man who overtly hates gay men is gay HIMSELF.
More proof that religion poisons everyone it touches,this guy is a number one a..hole.