As the quest for full equality for LGBT Americans continues its long march toward inevitability, the “religious right” has beefed up its newest and most powerful weapon: lies. Sadly, this new arsenal of multiple abject falsehoods is nothing new, and has been employed for decades. Worse yet, these baldfaced concoctions are blended with half-truths and cunning deception, leaving their supporters with little clue just how vile these groups really are.
Congratulations to Eugene Delgaudio, whose Public Advocate of the United States — along with several other groups including You Can Run But You Cannot Hide Ministries (recently made famous again for preaching hate in an Ohio school) — was inducted into the great hall of shame that is the Southern Poverty Law Center certified hate group list. Delgaudio is a particularly interesting fellow, in that his hate group is quite fond of a fiction.
Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn not only appeared on a radio show run by a SPLC-certified hate group, but was “thankful” for that appearance.
Blackburn, who voted to oppose the payroll tax holiday, and has made an asinine issue of incandescent light bulbs, showed that her bulb was clearly dimmed when she appeared on “FRC Radio” with AFA leader “Time Wildmon” (sic) and FRC president Tony Perkins. Both organizations are listed as hate groups because of their frequent dispensation of known falsehoods.
Since the Family Research Council was designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center because of their dishonesty and frequent dispensation of known falsehoods regarding LGBT Americans, it hasn’t slowed down the number of times they’ve been called upon for a “conservative” voice on TV debates. If anything, Tony Perkins, the president of the group, has been on TV news channel more often.
I have a simple message for the representatives of the hate groups that protested the Southern Poverty Law Center today, demanding that the SPLC remove them from their hate group list: Get over it. You are hate groups.
Who are the real villains in the battle between gays and the religious right?
Once again, the National Organization for Marriage is using deception as a tactic in a vain attempt to sway voters to the cause of their bigotry.
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