Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) added the Family Research Council (FRC) to its list of “hate groups” for adamantly opposing the radical homosexual rights agenda. As you may know, I ran FRC from 1989 until I jumped into the 2000 Republican presidential primary.
While I was there, FRC opposed same-sex “marriage,” opposed Bill Clinton’s attempt to end the military’s ban on open homosexuality and we published papers warning about the promotion of the radical homosexual agenda in the public schools. Those issues were well worth public debate then and they are today.
Nothing has changed at FRC since Tony Perkins took over. It was not a “hate group” when I ran it and it is not a “hate group” today. What has changed in recent years is the aggressiveness of the “tyrants of tolerance.”
The Left has been on a cultural jihad to label traditional conservative values as “hate” and beyond the pale of public discourse. Those who demand tolerance for every imaginable “lifestyle” are incredibly intolerant of conservative views, and they seek to silence us all. They would shut down any defense of traditional marriage and the sanctity of life as “hate speech.”
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"I don't care if the shoe fits, I'm not wearing it!"
Sorry, Gary, the World's Smallest Violin is currently on loan to a 16-year-old trust fund brat who's crying because the convertible she got for her birthday was the wrong shade of red.
We should all tolerate Conservative views, but you don't have to tolerate any other views but your own?
We ARE tolerating your views, as long as they concern yourself.
When you try to force others to live according to your views, then we become intolerant.
They also have the KKK as a hate group for adamantly opposing their radical nigger rights agenda. The KKK is not a hate group. It does not hate niggers, it loves white people.
The right is on a cultural jihad to relabel their hate "traditional values". They are incredibly intolerant of those who don't tolerate their intolerance and they seek to silence them all. They would shut down the defence of taditional American values as Naziism and civil rights as "hate speech"
Considering your earlier rhetoric, I'd have to disagree about the "not being a hate group" part.
And what on Earth does homosexuality have to do with the sanctity of life? Abortion was never mentioned, and it isn't like gays are going around murdering people just for kicks.
Apologia for being a bigot.
There is no left in America for starters. You have Centre and Right of Centre, which latter includes all the bigots you can think of. Some of whom feel they now own the Republican Party, and they do, up to a point because of the political whoredom that party engaged in to gain votes.
The FRC isn't a hate group! They're just a group that denies the rights of other citizens because they severely dislike them!
They would shut down any defense of traditional marriage
Last time I checked you guys were against polygamy too. Now THAT'S traditional marriage.
and the sanctity of life
Gays are having abortions now? That's a trick I'd like to see the gay men do.
WAAAAAAHHHHH! Somebody called my group out for what it is! You shouldn't be so intolerant of my hate. I'm being persecuted.
Every once in a while, I wish these dirt would experience actual persecution so they would STFU when someone merely disagrees with them.
One of the chief goals of the FRC is, stated in their own words:
"Preclusion of all legislative, executive, or judicial action at any level of state or local government designed to protect the status of persons based on their 'homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships."
Their stated purpose is to deny basic civil rights to several segments of society. That's, by definition, a "hate group". And? It doesn't even include all the vile crap that Tony Pekins and others regularly spew on FAUX "News" and, inexplicably, actual news programs.
"The Left has been on a cultural jihad to label traditional conservative values as “hate” and beyond the pale of public discourse."
I'm afraid, Gary, in this case the "Left" are right. And you're just a reactionary hate mongering cunt who deserves to be hit in the spine with a builder's hammer.
If the FRC isn't a hate group then neither is the Westboro Baptist Church.
Funny how you never find fundies who are OK with people being gay but only against it because God says so. No, God hates homosexuality because they do.
... adamantly opposing the radical homosexual rights agenda.
What "agenda" is that? Not wanting to get beat up? Not wanting to get fired? Not wanting to be denied the right to visit someone in the hospital that they've lived with all their lives? Not getting the same tax deductions?
No. What you don't like is that homosexuals want to counter your teaching your children to be bigots like you.
"They would shut down any defense of traditional marriage and the sanctity of life as 'hate speech.'"
Shut the fuck up, you death-penalty-endorsing, Iraq-invasion-cheering, universal-health-care-opposing hypocrite.
We label it as hate speech because that's what it is. Your intolerance of homosexuals is based strictly on your religious convictions, which are based on ancient Bronze Age rubbish.
This the 21st century, get with the program.
@TBTabby : +1 internets! I lol'd.
@Xotan:
Yeah, the Republican Party basically gave those guys an inch and they took a mile. I'm afraid the only people that could stop them would be more moderate Republicans, finally putting their collective foot down and saying "no more." I suspect, however, that they don't because they don't want to "ruin a good thing," as it were - the guaranteed votes have not become so much of a liability (yet) that they would significantly outweigh the advantage they'd give to a candidate. >_>
@katie5000
I'm afraid that you are talking about an animal, the moderate Republican, that has been driven to extinction. From what I've seen, anyone who shows even the smallest degree of moderation is immediately cast out due to a lack of "purity". The GOP has been seized by maniacs.
Those who demand tolerance for every imaginable “lifestyle” are incredibly intolerant of conservative views[...]
It's not your views we don't tolerate, it's your oppressive actions. What we don't tolerate is people like you trying to stop other people from enjoying the same rights that you have. In this case, it's the right to marry an adult whom they love.
It still baffles ne how a nuclear family concept that is only about 50 years old gets labeled as "traditional family values." A truly traditional family, in the sense of being a long-lived system, is one in which you, your grandparents, your aunts and uncles and cousins and parents and siblings all live together. Then, when you get married, you either bring your new wife into your household, or you go to live with your husband's family. In fact, that's what most biblical families were like.
Oh, right, these are fundies. If it happened before 1950, it's irrelevant, and if it happened after 1970, it's evil.
@musicalbookworm: I don't think we really want them to be persecuted. Then, they'd interpret it as some kind of cock-eyed evidence of divine favor.
The Left has been on a cultural jihad to label traditional conservative values as “hate” and beyond the pale of public discourse.
True, being a conservative does not necessarily mean you hate people. Hating people for having different, non-homogenous views of what the word "family" means means you hate people.
They would shut down any defense of traditional marriage and the sanctity of life as “hate speech.”
Traditional marriage as in the Biblically-touted, "one man, many wives (and concubines!)" King Solomon? We're not going back to the 50's, Mr. Bauer. Many people my age (mid 20s) see marriage as being an antiquated property arrangement, and in certain cases they're right. I'm a female, and I no longer need to get married just to be able to have a roof over my head. If I did get married for love, that's my business, but it's no longer "required" for being an "average woman."
The 50s were only "perfect" because the nostalgia for the Perfect Family only whitewashes the racism, sexism and Cold War paranoia away.
If you don't like being labelled a hate group, then perhaps you ought to stop promoting hate, discrimination, and oppression against LGBT people. Just an idea.
They would shut down any defense of traditional marriage and the sanctity of life as “hate speech.”
If you really cared about either of those things you would ban divorce and protest against war. You don't do either of those things.
There is someone with a radical agenda in America, it's not the gays.
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