Tony Perkins, the President of the homophobic Family Research Council and one of Donald Trump’s Religious Freedom commissioners, is at it again.
This time he has weighed in on the recent removal of the US ambassador to Zambia.
As previously reported by Queerty, in early December, the ambassador, Daniel Foote, criticized Zambia for sentencing two men to jail for 15 years for having gay sex.
Related: Zambia angered by US ambassador’s ‘horror’ at its treatment of gay men
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Foote suggested that the Zambian government would do better to tackle corruption in the country.
Zambia’s President reacted angrily, saying that he didn’t appreciate other countries interfering in Zambian affairs, and they could keep their aid money to themselves if they didn’t like the way Zambia was run.
Zambia receives hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid from the US: No less than $4billion over the last 15 years, much of which goes to helping fight HIV/AIDS.
Zambia President Edgar Lungu went on to say he was no longer prepared to work with Foote, which meant there was little point him remaining in his role.
Foote was subsequently recalled by Washington just before Christmas, with the Trump administration publicly stating it was “dismayed” by Zambia’s decision not to work with him any longer.
Perkins, who was appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom in May 2018, has now commented on the fallout in a blog post.
He suggests the Obama administration was more concerned with “cultural imperialism” than “diplomacy”, but that President Trump is slowly working “his way through the bureaucrats dedicated to keeping the last administration’s legacy alive.
“Turns out, it’s not easy to dismantle an army of international lobbyists for radical sexuality, abortion, and other extreme social policies. But thankfully, this White House is determined to keep trying. And before Christmas, they made it pretty clear that they aren’t done yet.”
He went on to say, “Calling the jailing of two men ‘horrifying,’ Daniel Foote upset Zambian leaders who think America’s representative crossed a line when he called their beliefs ‘oppressive.’ Exactly what mandate Foote was operating under remains unclear.”
Perkins supports the call from evangelical churches in other countries for the Trump administration not to show “obvious disrespect for other nations’ values … [and] for the White House to stop using the State Department to impose their LGBT agenda on other countries.”
He concludes by stating, “Recalling Foote is the right move when he has broken trust with his hosts and can no longer effectively serve as our representative overseas.
“It should also serve as an indicator of how we will act elsewhere. America respects everyone, but it won’t promote values that are inconsistent with what this president stands for.”
In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center added the Family Research Council to its list of hate groups, calling it “a font of anti-gay propaganda.” Perkins has repeatedly spoken out against any advancement of LGBTQ rights, including the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and same-sex marriage legislation.
Cam
Translation: Closet Trump adviser supports Anti-LGBT hate/bigotry/arrests
Chrisk
Minor correction: Translation: Certified Hate Group Leader and Closest Trump adviser supports Anti-LGBT hate/bigotry/arrests
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I will be dancing with unbridled absolute glee when this noxious, abhorrent, repugnant, disgusting, puddle of puke’s kiddie sex scandal finally errupts….
Cam
FRC probably has a separate fund just to pay off all of the boys/men who have accused this guy of sexual assault.
lovethyneighbor
I agree!
Rock-N-RollHS
NOT ALL homohaters are gay. Insisting they are is just another form of homophobia. They are repugnant straight people.
Kangol2
No, it’s not “homophobia,” it’s basic psychology, and conflating people in the closet or on the DL with virulent homophobes is a category error in addition to being just lazy thinking. As various psychological studies have shown (cf. papers published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Psychology Today, etc.) exclusively heterosexual men who not verbalize or admit to strongly homophobic views do not show sexual (penile) arousal from gay male/same-sexual imagery and videos, yet exclusively heterosexual men who do verbalize or admit to strongly homophobic views are more likely to physically express sexual (penile) arousal from same-sexual imagery and videos.
Hussain-TheCanadian
Guys stop calling this guy, and men like him, closet cases. This is a straight man who hates gay men, hes a nasty bigot, and spreading the belief that the majority of homophobs are secretly gay does nothing but spread the execuse that straight people are innocent and incapable of hating/oppressing gay people.
I sat with enough straight men that say “gay men who act like men are ok, I dont want to hear about their attractions, it’s scary to be courted by another man, it’s not natural, women like to be courted not men, a man penetrating another man, over powering another man for sex, I cant take it”.
The above is just a slither of this mentality and its psychological undertones. I dont want to turn this thread into the “why straight men fear gay men
Sexually”, closet cases tend to hide, rather than being flag bearers of homophobia, those homophobes like “young p*ssy” if you know what mean, they are a whole level of f*cked up, but being in the closet ain’t it.
Vince
Tonette will still keep beating this horse until it no longer pays well. Then it’s on to another group to demonize.
Trekbike
Tony Perkins is a vile hateful piece of garbage. I can’t imagine getting up every single morning with hate for a group of people who have nothing to do with him or his hate filled religion. Perkins is suffering from a severe case of religious mental illness. His family and friends should arrange an intervention as soon as possible. He was a U.S. marine and should be stripped of his honorable discharge. His hateful behavior has cost many lgbt lives. What a pathetic despicable loser.
lovethyneighbor
It’s amazing to me that all these spewers of hate all look like they’ve gone a month without a bowel movement. Yeah, looking at this guy makes me really want to make him my role model — NOT. I’d rather be a giver of unconditional love and truly follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. I love my neighbor as myself. I’m not perfect, and I certainly don’t know how to be straight nor do I condemn ALL straight people of embracing child pornography; however, there does seem to be a proportionate number of these haters found to be into either “kiddie porn,” having sex with minors in hotel rooms or sexually molesting young children during their process of doing God’s work.
I know not everyone is perfect, but if you have a deep-seated desire to lay with a child, you owe it to yourself to get counseling and disengage yourself from the line of work you are doing that gives you access to children. As a survivor of molestation and incest, I will tell you, there is no greater invasion of a child’s right to trust or feel safe around any grown-up. In fact, the reality leaves most of these children always trying to find someone to love them — not realizing they may have given up their greatest love because of their stained childhoods.
May God bless these haters, who promote the killing of anyone. The hypocrisy and irony of this man promoting “killing of gays” in Zambia is the commandment that says “thou shalt not murder.” If you promote the murder of others, then you have to realize that you are just as guilty as those, who commit these atrocities of mankind.