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FRC: Boycott Betty Crocker for baking wedding cakes for gay couples
When gay rights advocates criticized Chick-fil-A for the company’s financial support of anti-gay organizations, the Family Research Council decried their “gaystapo tactics.” Apparently, the FRC believes that boycotts are only acceptable if they are organized by conservative groups.
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Defense suggests 11½ years in FRC shooting, not 45 years prosecutors want
WASHINGTON — A man who planned a mass shooting at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group should spend 11 ½ years in prison for the failed plot, not the 45 years government lawyers want, his defense attorney says.
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‘Ex-gay’ activist: President Obama, Justices Kennedy, Kagan are secretly gay
Greg Quinlan, an “ex-gay” activist who is slated to speak at the Family Research Council’s “Ex-Gay Pride Month” event later this July, says that President Obama is “a down low president” and that Supreme Court Justices Kagan and Kennedy are “black-robed Nazis” who seek to “accommodate their own personal predilections, including their own sexuality.”
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Josh Duggar’s new job: Spreading homophobia and intolerance, FRC style
According to the Family Research Center (FRC), Josh Duggar “will bring his pro-life and pro-family passions to the political arena where he will help expand FRCA’s reach as a premier conservative advocacy group.” In plain speak, Josh Duggar is going to help spread hate, discrimination, homophobia, ignorance, and intolerance — FRC style.
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Eldest of ‘19 Kids and Counting’ joins anti-gay hate group FRC
Josh Duggar, the oldest of the Duggar children from TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting,” is joining the Family Research Council, the anti-gay hate group headed by “traditional family” activist Tony Perkins.
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Perry says Boy Scouts will answer to God; Gohmert warns of pedophilia
Rick Perry, who has equated the fight against gays in the Boy Scouts to the fight to abolish slavery, told Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council on Friday’s edition of Washington Watch that the Boy Scouts of America’s delegates bowed to “political correctness” and “money” in ending the ban on gay members under the age of 18.
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Rick Perry urges Boy Scouts to oppose gay ‘pop culture’ like Sam Houston resisted slavery
Gov. Rick Perry (R-Texas) appeared in the Family Research Council’s “Stand With Scouts Sunday” webcast last night where he told FRC president Tony Perkins that the Boy Scouts of America must resist those trying to “tear apart” the organization’s values and replace them with the “flavor of the month”—homosexuality.
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Prosecutors want 45-year sentence for FRC shooter
WASHINGTON — Prosecutors say a Virginia man who planned a mass killing at the Washington headquarters of a conservative Christian lobbying group should spend 45 years in prison for his plot.
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GOP dumps plan for more ‘inclusive’ party, reaffirms anti-gay marriage platform
Just weeks after releasing a “turnaround plan” focused on building a more inclusive GOP aimed at attract minority voters, including “welcoming” attitudes on gay rights, members of the Republican National Committee on Friday voted unanimously to reaffirm language in the GOP platform defining marriage “as the union of one man and one woman.”
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Evan Wolfson: ‘Gay people are not going to use up all the marriage licenses’
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments this week in two historic same-sex marriage cases — one challenging California’s ban on gay marriage, and the other challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act — supporters and opponents of marriage equality are stepping up their cases in the court of public opinion.