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Tony Perkins lashes out at U.S. tourism ad for featuring gay couple
The ad promoting tourism to the U.S. seemed innocuous enough, but Family Research Council president Tony Perkins warns that the advertising campaign is being used to “highlight same-sex attractions.”
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FRC president Tony Perkins ‘accepts’ invitation to dinner with LGBT family
WASHINGTON — Tony Perkins, president of the anti-gay hate group Family Research Council, has accepted — somewhat — an invitation to dinner in the home of a married, same-sex couple and their family.
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Good journalism: CNN’s Baldwin puts Perkins’ anti-gay views in context
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Thursday afternoon gave an almost textbook example of how to tell a complete story when dealing with an anti-gay activist. Joining Baldwin was Tony Perkins, there to speak about his afternoon press conference opposing President Obama’s support for marriage equality. Perkins is certainly one of the loudest anti-gay activists in the country, and his voice was absolutely relevant to today’s discussion, surrounding his press conference. But he always needs to be put into context, since in front of mainstream audiences he plays a completely different character than the one he plays in front of supporters.
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American Family Association, Family Research Council attack Target for selling ‘Pride’ t-shirts
While Target created a firestorm in 2010 for donating to a conservative group backing an anti-gay, and unsuccessful, Republican gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota, the retailer now is selling t-shirts to benefit the Family Equality Council, a group representing LGBT families. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said “if they’re looking to resonate with Americans, […]
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In 2006, Romney blasted same-sex marriage as ‘Blow to the Foundation of Civilization’
Prior to launching his first run for president, Mitt Romney in 2006 addressed an event called “Liberty Sunday” at Boston’s Tremont Temple Baptist Church where he spoke alongside anti-gay activists and attacked marriage equality as harmful to children and civilization itself.
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MSNBC holds FRC President Tony Perkins accountable
There are some people whose views are so intractable that they will never – as the President put it – “evolve” on this issue. But those folks really are few and far between. To tell the full story on marriage equality, the media needs to talk to folks who have changed their minds on the issue and explore the changes that are happening in our culture that has led to a majority of Americans now supporting marriage equality. It also needs to expose the true roots of the views of people like FRC President Tony Perkins, so that Americans know who he is when he shows up in these debate segments…
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Tony Perkins laments that ‘Mike and Ike’ are gay and ‘sexualizing candy’
As part of a new advertising campaign, “Mike and Ike” have announced that they are divorcing so Ike can pursue a career in the arts and Mike can fulfill his dream of becoming a “music legend,” but FRC president Tony Perkins is upset that Mike and Ike are a gay couple and said they are sexualizing candy.
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Perkins blames Secret Service prostitution scandal on repeal of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins claims that since the President has been “enforcing open homosexuality in our military” then he should not have been “upset” about the prostitution scandal, maintaining that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’s repeal led to “a total breakdown” in “moral order.”
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Rick Santorum pledges to restore ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’
While sitting down with Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church on Sunday, Rick Santorum doubled down on his commitment to bring back the discriminatory Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.
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GLAAD campaign demands media accountability for anti-gay pundits
Today, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) will launch the Commentator Accountability Project, which seeks to educate the media on the wool pulled over its eyes by anti-gay pundits…