slacktivist (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
SCENE: A secure, undisclosed location somewhere deep beneath Washington, D.C. Representatives from every conservative PR tank and farm team have gathered for an emergency meeting. Tony Perkins looks nervous, unsure if he should be glad he gets to go first....
Tony Phyrillas (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
The Glorious Fourth By Tony Perkins Family Research Council In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams told her of the actions of the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. "The second day of July, 1776 [the actual day the Declaration was signed], will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as...
Vedasri (Free subscription) | yesterday
... for all nations. (Jeremiah 29:13; Matthew 5:6, 21:13; Acts 2:1; Philippians 2:13; James 4:8) by Tony Perkins, FRC Washington Update : In a letter to his wife Abigail, John Adams told her of the actions of the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. "The second day of July, 1776 [the actual day the Declaration was signed], will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I...
The Progressive Puppy (Free subscription) | 07/04/2009
... to safeguard the health and well being of the student population,” writes FRC President Tony Perkins. ( Think Progress deftly dismantles all of FRC's malign talking points, exposing the organization's accusations as lies clumsily disguised as "facts.") Kevin Jennings will begin his new job as Assistant Deputy Secretary to the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools on Monday. Although...
Mike Tidmus : Blog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Right Tony Perkins. That’ll happen (photo: Family Research Council, type: mine) The God, guns and anti-gays movement has a new national front. Jody Brown, writing at the Reverend Donald Wildmon’s make-believe news site OneNewsNow, reports that the radical religious right has formed a brand new gun-loving, gay-hating mob. Conservative Christian groups form new federation Jody...
Mike Tidmus : Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
If you’ve been following along, you’re undoubtedly aware that nothing tickles the fundies more than the fact that they imagine that the invisible dude in the sky has given them a special dispensation from that whole not-bearing-false-witness thing. From third-string ex-con fibbers like James Hartline to professional prevaricators like Tony Perkins to outlandish lying loons...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
... to safeguard the health and well being of the student population,” writes FRC President Tony Perkins. ThinkProgress investigated FRC’s claims and spoke to people who have worked with Jennings. A look at some of the “facts” about him: FRC CLAIM: “Jennings’ and GLSEN’s concept of ’safe schools’ means special protections for privileged groups (especially homosexuals), rather than safety...
Atheist Revolution (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Image via Wikipedia Tony Perkins , head of the Family Research Council, claims to have a direct line of communication to the Christian god. And just what is his god telling him to do now? According to Perkins, his god wants him to organize yet another national day of prayer (presumably because the one we just had worked so well). Under the name "Call2Fall," Perkins...
Targuman (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
... so? “I don’t recall a single example of Bush as president ever saying, ‘Jesus’ or ‘Christ,’” said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Christian group Family Research Council. “This is different.” To Perkins, Obama’s overtly Christian rhetoric is a welcome development from an administration that he largely disagrees with on the issues, though Perkins sees a political...
Political Animal (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
... to give Sanford a pass.Gilgoff flagged this gem from a book Family Research Council President Tony Perkins wrote: "As long as we as Christians are willing to tolerate or overlook duplicity in our self-identified party, it will be clear to the world that our allegiance is to a party and not the truth, regardless of what we claim.... [I]f we are ever to speak as the moral conscience...
Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Tony Perkins' Family Research Council has launched a website in their campaign to depose Kevin Jennings, the former Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network president who was appointed by Obama to head the Office of Safe & Drug-Free Schools. The campaign includes a full page ad in the Washington Examiner . As the former president of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network,...
VOT3R (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Tony Perkins and his homo-haters at the Family Research Council are so incensed that former president of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, Kevin Jennings, has been appointed to serve as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the Dept. of Education, that the org has...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Tony Perkins and his homo-haters at the Family Research Council are so incensed that former president of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, Kevin Jennings, has been appointed to serve as head of the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools at the Dept. of Education, that the org has launched a website, www.stopjennings.org to: [E]ducate the American people about how Jennings'...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
... partners is prohibited under the Defense of Marriage Act. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the entire memorandum violates the act. "President Obama's … executive order uses taxpayer money to placate an angry portion of his base at the expense of the rule of law," Perkins said this month in a written statement. "This order raises the question of whether the...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
... nor the ethical standards needed for public service," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. "His history demonstrates disregard for our obligations to safeguard the health and well being of the student population. He is unfit for the post to which he's been assigned, and Secretary Duncan should withdraw his appointment at once."Go to for Kevin Jennings' most outrageous...
