Video: Al Franken Exposes Focus on the Family Spokesman As Liar
One of the characteristics of a cult is that members systematically lie to outsiders, and you can see this behavior in almost all the religious fundamentalist groups with “Family” in their names. Today’s case in point — the testimony in the Senate’s DOMA hearings by Focus on the Family’s Tom Minnery, who blatantly lied about an HHS study on two-parent households.
When religious right spokesmen quote “studies” to support their bigoted anti-gay positions, it’s always a good idea to go to the original source and check what they’re saying; most of the time you’ll discover that: 1) the study comes from another religious right group, or 2) they’re simply lying about it.
And today, Al Franken did exactly that — he checked the original study, and humiliated Minnery on the stand.
Youtube VideoUnfortunately, this kind of debunking won’t stop the misinformation; people like Minnery will just continue lying as if they were never caught.