It’s got to be pretty painful for hate group leader Tony Perkins when these days, he even loses debates on Fox News. Watch as Bernard Whitman of Faith In America, a gay father himself, clearly calls Tony out for his lies regarding gay parenting and the anti-gay Arizona adoption bill. I hope the anti-gay Religious Right is making plans for their coming irrelevancy, because if this is all they’ve got, the clock is ticking.
[h/t Alvin]
Sorry, I don’t see Tony losing a debate, I see him allowed to talk over and above the in studio guest.
Well, it’s Fox News, no surprises there.
This is typical behaviour though. Lie about studies, and say it often enough that it MUST be true. It wasn’t a debate, it was, as mentioned, it was just being rude.
Tony knows he’s lying. He just doesn’t care. He has no real conscience or he’d be ashamed of his dishonest behaviour and willingness to twist the truth to further his agenda.
And said agenda is certainly not about love, compassion, empathy or remotely CLOSE to understanding.
I gotta agree with Gew – no debate lost there. It was just two angry people hollerin’ at one-another.
Interesting that Tony Perkins has the same name as the late GAY actor who played the homicidal maniac in Psycho.
No one called out Tony Perkins for citing yet another bad study-Australia study from 1996, discredited by the APA: http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/parenting.aspx (citations page 2)
Come on guys. Whitman was clearly in charge and left perkins stumbling over his talking points. Whitman was clearly being as aggressive as perkins but was able to make his points.
Christopher, your link doesn’t say anything about discrediting this 1996 Australian study. Do you have a link that does?
Ooops, spoke to soon, I found it Christopher, sorry.
If anything the debate was a draw with both sides claiming many studies back up their position but neither referring to specific studies. What Whitman should have done after Perkins claimed “decades of social research show children do better with a mother and father” is said “None of those studies Perkins is referring to compared same sex parents to heterosexual parents, they all compared two parent heterosexual families to single parent families, Perkins is attempting to deceive people as religious right wingers like him have been doing for decades.”