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Josh Duggar resigns from anti‑gay hate group amid reports he molested five girls as a teenager
Josh Duggar resigned from his position at the Family Research Council as a result of the accusations becoming public.
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‘Face the Nation’ introduces Tony Perkins as ‘hate group leader’ who ‘doesn’t speak for Christians’
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, branded an anti-gay “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, says most Americans would not be comfortable with a Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality.
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Conservative groups attempting to kill prospective ABC show over Dan Savage influence
Conservative groups are trying to kill in the cradle a prospective ABC sitcom about a family upended when a teenage son comes out as gay because sex columnist and gay rights activist Dan Savage is involved in the production.
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Benhams working to defeat Charlotte ‘depraved’ non-discrimination ordinance
David and Jason Benham say they’re working to defeat a proposed LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance in Charlotte, N.C., which David Benham called “so depraved and just absolutely craziness.”
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The year in homophobia: Ten of the worst anti-LGBT stories of 2014
The Radical Righ, sees recent advances in LGBT rights as a reason to find new strategies to fight what it believes is a tyrannical government bent on persecuting conservatives and inviting divine punishment.
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‘19 Kids’ star Josh Duggar leads anti-gay marriage rally at Arkansas capitol
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Opponents of same-sex marriage rallied at the Arkansas state Capitol on Wednesday, demanding that the state Supreme Court not overturn a 2004 ballot measure that defines marriage in Arkansas as being between one man and one woman.
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Hate group leader Tony Perkins to join gay marriage foes at Vatican meeting
Next week, American Religious Right leaders including the Southern Baptist Convention’s Russell Moore, pastor Rick Warren, Archbishop of Philadelphia Charles Chaput, and Latter-Day Saints official Henry Eyring will be joining opponents of LGBT equality from around the world at an interfaith conference on the “complementarity of man and woman in marriage” hosted by the Vatican.
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Christian right undermines marriage equality with religious supremacism
As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” That vision of history’s progression has been well illustrated by the past year’s landslide of advances for marriage equality. And as we move closer to a more just society, the nature of the opposition is revealed in the nature of the backlash. The Christian Right has been operating on multiple fronts to stop — or at least limit — the scope of the advance of marriage equality…
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Ted Olson v. Tony Perkins on ‘judicial activism’ and marriage equality
Ted Olson, attorney for the American Foundation for Equal Rights who successfully argued for marriage equality in California and Virginia cases, versu hate group leader Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, in an appearance today on Fox News Sunday. Says Olson: “We have a Constitution and a Bill Of Rights precisely because we […]
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Tony Perkins: ‘Deadly consequences’ if gay rights movement succeeds
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins has repeatedly attempted to link the actual persecution of Christians in places like Iraq and Sudan to the supposed persecution of Christians in America as a result of gay rights and Obama administration policies.