Pam’s House Blend:: Family Research Council’s whining stinks of blatant hypocrisy
As I have long pointed out, it’s not enough to make a few concessions to these extremists. Once they have a foothold, a little bit of acceptance turns into a full-blown demand to co-opt your business. They want corporations to join them in the assault on real tolerance. Unless you cower and give them what they want, these activists will make sure you can’t function in society. Over the years, gay activists have perfected this kind of corporate terrorism. And until companies stand their ground and refuse to negotiate, homosexuals will continue to bully businesses.
That was Family Research Council president Tony Perkins this week in an email. He was referring to campaign jointly conducted by Media Matters and several national lgbt groups which called on the company Orbitz to stop advertising on Fox News in light of the channel’s viciously negative approach to covering lgbt issues.
There is one strange thing about Perkins’s statement, however.
It flies in direct opposite to the Family Research Council’s actions in several cases, such as when the group supported the boycott against McDonalds because the company gave money to some lgbt organizations: