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MSNBC rejects ad exposing hate group leader’s anti-gay record
Amid a growing outcry from progressive Christian leaders to take Family Research Council President Tony Perkins off the air, MSNBC has rejected an ad exposing his and FRC’s extensive record of hate speech against gay and lesbian Americans.
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Family Research Council launches fundraiser to stop ‘fake marriages’
WASHINGTON — The virulently anti-gay Family Research Center has launched an aggressive new fundraising campaign to “Stop Fake Marriages” in the U.S., because, according to the FRC, 2012 could be the “tipping point” year in the battle for marriage.
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Marriage equality moves forward in Washington, New Jersey
Marriage equality took center stage again on Monday, with progress on both coasts — in Washington out west, and in the east, New Jersey.
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Perkins: Gays won’t be happy with marriage equality because of an ‘Emptiness within Them’
Citing the stories of “ex-gays,” Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council said that gays and lesbians will always have “an emptiness within them” and will never be content with having the right to marry, as “they are operating outside of nature and outside of God’s plan and design.”
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Anti-gay, evangelical leaders endorse Rick Santorum
The anti-gay Family Research Council and evangelical leaders have endorsed Republican candidate Rick Santorum for president amid observations that the social conservatives are unhappy with the idea of frontrunner Mitt Romney’s nomination.
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Family Research Council whines that no one wants to debate ‘homosexual’ issues
In dealing with the fact that it is an officially declared hate group, the Family Research Council pulls the shuck-and-jive argument that it is being attacked by people who don’t want to debate gay issues.
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Family Research Council wants God to stop gay adoptions
In all of the years in which FRC has attacked same-sex households or gay adoption, the organization has never pushed, suggested, or even slightly initiated any type of plan encouraging folks in what it claims to be “perfect family units,” i.e. heterosexual mother/father households into adopting children.
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Rep. Trent Franks: Marriage equality a ‘threat to the nation’s survival’
Today on Washington Watch Weekly with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, U.S. Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) claimed that marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples is “a threat to the nation’s survival.”
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Values Voter Summit: GOP candidates plan weekend with anti-gay activists
This weekend, nearly every major GOP presidential candidate, along with the top two Republicans in the House of Representatives, will speak at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of the leaders of the movement to integrate fundamentalist Christianity and American politics.
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It’s not enough to call them bigots…
We know that religious right groups peddle distortions designed to demonize the LGBT community. However we really should do more than simply declare them bigots. Members of the right tend to embrace that definition…