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The GOP’s Hate Summit: A Who’s Who of the 2014 Values Voter Summit
This weekend, Republican elected officials including Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul, and Gov. Bobby Jindal will take part in what has become an annual ritual for potential GOP presidential contenders: they will seek to curry the favor of the Religious Right by speaking at the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit.
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Civil rights groups to RNC: GOP should stop associating with anti-gay groups
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center and a coalition of civil rights groups on Wednesday called on the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) to urge party members to disassociate themselves from groups behind this week’s Values Voter Summit because of their relentless demonization of the LGBT community.
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Sen. Ted Cruz to join anti-gay activists in honoring his father
Next month, Rick Scarborough’s Vision America will host its annual “Heroes of Faith Gala” where the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins will receive the 2014 “National Hero of Faith Award” and Rafael Cruz, a Religious Right activist and father of Sen. Ted Cruz, will be honored with the “Don Wildmon Award,” named for the founder of the American Family Association.
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Perkins: Christian businesses should donate LGBT profits to ex-gay ministries
For conservatives, non-discrimination laws are another nail in the coffin of religious freedom. On Monday’s “Washington Watch,” host Tony Perkins lamented how increasingly difficult it is for Christian business owners to actively discriminate against and refuse service to LGBT people or same-sex couples based on their “religious views on sexuality.”
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For marriage equality opponents, the losing streak continues to grow
For foes of same-sex marriage, their losing streak keeps growing. Some sense a lost cause, others vow to fight on. On Election Day in 2012, they went 0-for-4 on state ballot measures. A year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government must recognize same-sex marriages. And over the past seven months, more than a dozen…
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Tony Perkins calls on parents to remove kids from public schools after principal comes out
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is urging parents across the country to pull their children out of public schools in response to a Washington, D.C., principal’s decision to come out to his students and school staff.
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FRC spokesman links Calif. killing spree to advancement of same-sex marriage
Family Research Council senior fellow Ken Blackwell on Tuesday linked the Isla Vista mass killings to marriage equality laws, which he claimed are destroying the culture.
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Franklin Graham: Don’t call me ‘homophobic’ just because you’re going to hell
Franklin Graham spoke at the Family Research Council’s Watchmen on the Walls conference yesterday where he told the assembled pastors that they needed to be willing to have their heads chopped off for speaking the truth that gays are bound for hell.
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Richard Land ‘exposes’ the ‘Dirty Little Secret’ of the gay community
While filling in for Washington Watch host Tony Perkins on Tuesday, Southern Baptist Convention official Richard Land and guest Donna Rice Hughes of the anti-pornography group Enough Is Enough agreed that sexual abuse causes homosexuality.
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Gay marriage foe, former Fox Sports broadcaster Craig James joins FRC
Former college football broadcaster Craig James has joined the conservative Family Research Council, where he said he would fight against the kind of “religious bigotry” he blames for his firing by Fox Sports after expressing opposition to gay marriage.