The 20 Most Frightful Anti-Gay Activists

It’s impossible to know what turned Tony Perkins into such a monster, but the Family Research Council honcho counts as one of the most frightfully powerful anti-gay activists around. And, more importantly, he’s extremely dangerous. You don’t believe us? Consider his wildly inflammatory statements on Congressman Mark Foley’s downfall:

I think that this — there’s an indication, there’s clear research that shows that homosexual men are more likely to abuse children than straight men. And when it comes to government, yes, I have a concern that any type of sexual deviancy is a problem. And I think — I’m not pointing this strictly at homosexuality. I think this is a problem of dropping all sexual restraints in our society, and this is what it leads to. I mean, our kids not even being safe in the halls of government. Is that the America that moms and dads want for their children? I don’t think it is.

Perkins chooses to ignore repeated studies which dismiss such erroneous assumptions about gay men. For example, a 1995 American Psychological Association paper concluded that gay men “are no more likely than heterosexual men to perpetrate child sexual abuse”.

Perkins and his ignorance are perfect examples of what makes these zombie-like, monstrous anti-gay activists so dangerous. They pick and choose “facts” and twist them to fit their homophobic agenda.

The twenty people we’ve chronicled are hardly the only anti-gay activists in the world, nor are they necessarily the most repugnant. They are all, however, totally frightful.