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.
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Rt. Rev. Dr. RES
Yes, Phyllis has a gay son who supports her ministry . Ditto for the gay son of Tim and Beverly La Haye.
The Canadian voices of spiritual violence were from the Roman Catholic hierarchy – now completely uberconservative reflecting the retirement and replacement of all liberals by the former and current pope. This majority voice was also joined by the fundamentalist and pentacostal voices in Western Canada.
We won the spiritual debate. How? Well, the Anglicans held the middle ground….but it was the United Church of Canada – who joined the MCC and many Quaker and Unitarian Universalist voices against these theocon luminaries who fought us in Canada…”so that they would not have to fight us in the streets of America” LOL
When Canada’s largest Protestant denomination was the loudest voice for LGBT marriage and civil rights, the secular activists – the pols and the jurists – could fight each other.
You do not fight the religious wrong with the legal right, but with the religious right…namely those who fight the theocons on their own turf.
Billysees
@Rt. Rev. Dr. RES: 1
Last paragraph from No 1 above sounds very true to me.
I go back a few years when the orange juice saleslady propagated her contempt upon the Gay community.
It’s been some time since then and I’ve seen all kinds of progress towards LGBT acceptance which is a must precursor towards marriage equality.
So far so good.
Slow but sure is a good sign.
We must be doing a pretty good job of revealing to the world — hey everybody, look at us, cause we are a good and decent bunch of folks like yourselves.
But, all great works are subject to the “3 steps forward and 1 or 2 steps backward rule”.
As far as our own “religious right” stuff, here are my own personal favorites —
These are some of the gold standards of attitudes about how the whole world should think about and treat all gays and lesbians and transgender folks —
1. Therefore let us stop passing judgment on one another. Instead, make up your mind not to put any stumbling block or obstacle in your brother’s way…….Romans 14:13
2. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God……Romans 15:7
3. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love…….Ephesians 4:2
4. Finally, all of you, live in harmony with one another; be sympathetic, love as brothers, be compassionate and humble…….1 Peter 3:8
5. Man’s ways are of the Lord,…………Proverbs 20:24
6. You may believe there’s nothing wrong with what you are doing or how you feel about yourself, so keep it between yourself and God. Blessed are those who don’t feel guilty for doing something or thinking of themselves in the way they know is best……….Romans 14:22
Cheer…