Several things to mock in this latest missive from Tony Perkins, from yesterday’s broadcast of Today’s Issues put out by the hate group called the Family Research Council. Let us do so because Tony Perkins is truly low-hanging fruit:
I think it’s time for us to occupy. Not going down and setting up tents out in front of city hall, but it’s time for us to be gainfully involved in boldly proclaiming truth and not backing down in the face of intimidation, whether it be from a school principal, kids if you’re listening obviously talk with your parents first, and parents, don’t be intimidated by school officials, don’t be intimidated by the ACLU.
Um, Tony, you all already “occupy” a lot of places. That’s why gay kids end up getting the message from bullies and the fundamentalist religious leaders who enable them that they’re not worthy of living. I’d hate to see the bodycount if Tony Perkins stepped up the FRC’s “occupying” activities.
Pastors, I’m gonna have a pastor hopefully on the program maybe this week or next week from Oklahoma who spoke out at city council and now he’s gotten death threats, well you know what, we’ve got to stand up to this. We cannot allow this to go on, allow them to intimidate us into silence.
Should we be angry? No. But we should understand that it is the truth that sets people free and those in the homosexual community that are looking for fulfillment, that are looking for the approval that they are trying to get by forcing society to embrace homosexuality, they will never get it that way. They’ll only get it when they come to grips with the truth, that they are created in the image of God and God has a plan for their lives, and it’s not the destructive path that they’re on.
Oh, so delusional. You see, people like Tony Perkins live in a weird, bizarre echo chamber outside of reality where the only thing they know and understand is their own lies. Just as creationists can look at fossils from millions of years ago and simply stick their fingers in their ears clinging to their cult belief that the earth is Brand New, Tony Perkins and his fellow anti-gay bigots [also creationists!] simply cannot compute the fact that there are millions of gay people who happy and fulfilled, and not on destructive paths at all. The truth of the matter is that it is those LGBT people who are most influenced by fundamentalist religion who end up destroyed. Their families end up destroyed, their lives are destroyed, sometimes they commit suicide…and for what? The approval of unworthy malcontents like Tony Perkins? My god.
[h/t Brian @ Right Wing Watch]
I’d love to sign a petition saying that I’m one of the millions of happy and well adjusted gays. I’d also happily sign a petition saying that Exodus failed to turn me heterosexual.
It may come as a surprise to Anthony Perkins, but Tony, NO, I do *not* want or seek your approval for my life. In fact, I couldn’t give a rat’s behind about whatever your opinion is about who I love. Kindly mind your own business, Tony, and don’t flatter yourself. I assure you, I’ll survive without having experienced the grand privilege of having received a pat on the back from you.
Notso– nope, you failed to turn yourself heterosexual.
Ex-gay therapy is the only treatment around which, when it fails, is the patient’s fault. If only you had believed a little harder, hated yourself a little more, or perhaps paid a bit more money, you would even now be carving hetero notches on your bedposts.
“they are created in the image of God and God has a plan for their lives”
I know that already. Stop trying to burn it.
Tony: God’s plan is not your plan, and your plan is not God’s.
I fully agree with the following:
“but it’s time for us to be gainfully involved in boldly proclaiming truth and not backing down in the face of intimidation”
That’s exactly why we’re standing up to those who would discriminate against us for a trait with which God graced us.
Delusional, hate-filled cretin.
Tony, please read this.
Firstly, death threats are not excusable in any context.
The pastor lied to the council. He stood up and lied, known untruths, falsehoods. A pastor you think is some kind of martyr is in fact a liar.
You said “it is the truth that sets people free”. So please, be consistent, be truthful and condemn the Pastor’s lies, the terrible things he said without foundation about LBGT people.
If you think the intimidation he recieved is a great call to ‘stand up’ and be counted, then you grossly underestimate how strongly LBGT people feel. You don’t know 0.1% of it, not one atom of the anger we feel at the lying denigration at the hands of this ‘Unpastor’ Tom Vineyard, the great Oklahoma Liar. WE will stand up and be counted. WE will speak truth to hate. WE will succeed. You will be silenced as long as you tell lies.
Hey a*****e, we aren’t interested in forcing you to embrace anything, oh, except possibly some facts. You don’t have to embrace anything you don’t like. Fact is, you and yours do have blood on your hands. It may be a couple of stages removed, but your kind empowers the weak-minded haters among you to bully suspected gay kids in the name of some-sort-of righteousness. The blood of those kids is ON YOUR HANDS, all you who follow this crap. That said, I must admit to really liking his looks. Would gladly show him a slice of REAL life. :)
We think we’ve come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches, it’s all ancient history. And then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly it threatens to start all over again. Villains who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well-camouflaged. Someone like Tony Perkins will always be with us, waiting for the right climate in which to flourish, spreading fear in the name of righteousness. If God never intended for a man to be gay, why did he chose Michelangelo, a known homosexual in his time to create his likeness painted in the Sistine chapel? Maybe God admires genius more than sexual preference!!
Yet another neo-fascist gay man who hates his sexuality so much he wants to punish everyone who is. Talk about psychological projection! Man, those conservatives really need some MAJOR freakin’ shrink time WITH meds.
Why are so many uber-recht-wing conservatives of dubious sexual orientation? Man, you should walk through any government office in D.C. The white guys are managers, and have this kind of super-refined Southern-boy gayness to them that’s unmistakable. Doesn’t take much gaydar to see it, y’all.
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