TagsTagsReligious right hate group leader Tony Perkins really gets grilled in this Chris Matthews segment. Perkins is usually treated by the media as a legitimate commentator on gay issues, and his bigoted caveman views are almost never properly addressed; kudos to Chris Matthews for this one. MSNBC Video
Chris Matthews, Tony Perkins, Barney Frank, Gay Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Adoption, Bigotry, hate groups
Today's story of outstanding right wing cognitive dissonance comes to us from the extreme anti-gay throwback group called the "Family Research Council," where they've given their "True Blue" award for "defending faith, family, and freedom" to Republican Rep. Joe Walsh -- who owes more than $100,000 in child support. “We ...
Anti-Science, Anti-Gay, Joe Walsh, Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, Family Values
If there's one right wing event that sums up the reasons why I ran screaming away from these lunatics more than any other, it's the Values Voter Summit, put on every year by a devil's brew of extreme religious fanatics preaching virulent hatred against everyone who isn't them. At the Values ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Extremism, Anti-Science, Bad Craziness, Family Research Council, Values Voter Summit, Tony Perkins, Fanaticism, Mitt Romney, Bigotry, Robert Jeffress
As the Republican candidates for President prepare for tonight's debate (at 8pm ET), CNN gives religious fanatic Tony Perkins a column to explain: Who social conservatives want for 2012. There's plenty of spinning, but Perkins eventually gets down to his real agenda; the ludicrous claim that "big government" can only be ...
Republican Party, GOP, Fundamentalism, Religious Right, Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, Racism
Tony Perkins of the extreme fundamentalist group Family Research Council is outraged that the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed the FRC as an anti-gay hate group. Here he is seething and whining about it on Fox News, claiming he's not anti-gay at the same time as he promotes bogus ...
Family Research Council, Tony Perkins, Anti-Gay, Homophobia, Hate Speech, hate groups, Far Right, Religious Right
Attorney David Boies faces off with the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins, and shows him up for the ignorant bigot he is: 'No Evidence of Harm' from Same Sex Marriage. Video (Hat tip: Thanos.)
Proposition 8, Gay Rights, Gay Marriage, Bigotry, Family Research Council, Tony Perkins
In 2001, Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins gave a speech to the openly white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens. And when Perkins worked for Senator Woody Jenkins, he purchased a phone-bank list from former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke. Today he’s angry at the Republican Party over recent revelations that ...
Republican Party, RNC, GOP, Family Values, Bondage, Michael Steele, Sarah Palin, Tony Perkins
All of these videos are from last night’s “prayercast” in Washington DC, posted at Right Wing Watch. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), James Dobson, and the completely insane Lou Engle, praying for health care reform to fail: [Video] Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, and Lou Engle discuss how ...
Right Wing, Bad Craziness, Homophobia, paranoia, Extremism, Religious Right, Fanaticism, Theocracy, James Dobson, Tony Perkins, Michele Bachmann, Video
Rifqa Bary, the 17-year old girl raised as a Muslim who converted to Christianity and ran away from home, claiming her parents were going to murder her, suddenly turned up on a conference call a few days ago, led by Shirley Dobson, wife of Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, ...
Islam, Rifqa Bary, Honor Killing, Apostasy, Bigotry, Anti-Islam, Tony Perkins, Religious Right, James Dobson
At last weekend’s Value Voters Summit, attended by top GOP politicians and run by a man (Tony Perkins) who associates with white supremacists like David Duke and the Council of Conservative Citizens, Texas Governor Rick Perry urged the audience to read “The 5,000 Year Leap” by W. Cleon Skousen — ...
Value Voters Summit, Rick Perry, Creationism, Theocracy, Tony Perkins, Cleon Skousen, John Birch Society