Chris Matthews just got him to admit it on Hardball. It literally just happened, so I’ll update this post with video and a transcript as soon as I can find it.
Sprigg also said that gay people aren’t qualified to serve our country, and that DADT should be repealed so that gays can’t even serve in silence.
Chris Matthews drives me up the wall on a regular basis, but when he’s good, he’s GOOD.
More soon…
UPDATE: Here’s a link to the video at MSNBC. Will update with an embeddable video as soon as I find one.
Here you go:
(h/t Sean in the comments. Thanks!)
Video of the full segment:
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Sprigg is also a board member and spokesperson for Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays, the antigay parents group which has sought to suppress comprehensive sex education in public schools — despite the wishes of local parents — and to replace fact-based curricula with antigay and ex-gay propaganda.
Not a surprise in the least – the FRC and the Alliance Defense Fund did their utmose to prevent a repeal of the sodomy laws in 2003, and their amicus brief to the court in the Texas v lawrence case is still sitting proudly on the FRC’s website.
Sprigg’s comment a couple of years ago about the loss of able gay men from the military was ‘they are expendable, we can replace them, other people will take their place’. I would love to know what for example, the employees of Cantor Fitzgerald, a company which lost 658 people on 9/11, might make of such evil nonsense.
Well done Chris Matthews on exposing this – ask the same question of all of them. The very least that can be said of Mr LaBarbera and Mr Phelps is that their intentions are honest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN8D40qRWW4
Unbelievable. If pressed, they would probably be for placing pink triangles on all people caught engaging in “unnatural” conduct, or, at the least, having a public “sex offender” list, with “known homosexual” being their legal designation. Heil Hitler. Why is it that the religious right sees the military as their ground zero. We all know that there are many brands of religion that don’t follow this path, but groups like FRC and Pat Robertson’s still lend more than an air of credibility to Christopher Hitchens’ constant diatribe about the natural alliance between religion and war. I think we ought to start calling people like Sprigg what they are: Ugandan “fellow-travelers” and fascists.
[...] Family Research Council spokesman Peter Sprigg told MSNBC on Tuesday that LGBT people should be thrown in prison for their alleged private behavior, it [...]