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 Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the issue of same-sex marriage is not "a laughing matter."
May 14th, 2012
03:09 PM ET
Evangelical leader Tony Perkins knocks Rand Paul's 'gay' remarkBy Becky Perlow, CNN Washington (CNN) - You may disagree with it, but you shouldn’t make fun of it. That’s what conservative Family Research Council president Tony Perkins told CBS’s "Face the Nation" on Sunday about U.S. Sen. Rand Paul’s arguably derogatory use of the term “gay.” “The president, you know, recently weighed in on marriage,” Paul, a Kentucky Republican, remarked to the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, a conservative group, on Friday. “And, you know, he said that his views were evolving on marriage. And call me cynical, but I wasn’t sure that his views on marriage could get any gayer.” The audience burst into a laughter that echoed all the way to the Sunday talk show tables, where opposing sides weighed in, from gay rights activist and singer Clay Aiken to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. But Perkins’criticism of Paul’s comments was noteworthy because Perkins is one of the nation’s best-known opponents of same-sex marriage and of gay rights more broadly. CNN’s Belief Blog: The faith angles behind the biggest stories Condemning Paul’s remarks on Sunday, Perkins said the debate over homosexuality and same-sex marriage is not “a laughing matter.” “I don’t think this is something we should joke about,” Perkins said on "Face the Nation." “We are talking about individuals who feel very strongly one way or the other, and I think we should be civil, respectful, allowing all sides to have the debate.” While Perkins’ comments caught many by surprise, Aaron McQuade, director of news and field media for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, said he doesn’t believe Perkins was defending the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. “I think he was saying that he takes this issue so seriously that it’s not okay to make light of it, even if you also oppose it the way he does,” McQuade said in a phone interview. Follow the CNN Belief Blog on Twitter “This is not a man who represents the 40-whatever percent of the country that does not support marriage equality,” McQuade said. “This is a man who represents a tiny, tiny, fraction of Americans who believes, as he does, that gay people have an emptiness within them. That they are abnormal.” The Family Research Council did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. McQuade also said it was hard to tell what Paul meant by using the word “gayer.” “If that same comment was made by someone with a more pro-LGBT history, it likely would not be taken negatively,” he said. On CNN’s "State of the Union" on Sunday, Perkins told chief political correspondent Candy Crowley that opposition to same-sex marriage shouldn’t be the “central point” of presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign. But Perkins also admitted frustration with Capitol Hill Republicans who are portraying the issue as a political distraction. “Defending the family, the cornerstone of civilization, is not a distraction,” he said, while stressing that the economy and jobs are also key issues in this election. “It should be a priority, and it should be a part of what Mitt Romney talks about.”
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bootyfunk.....where in the bible does it say that?
which part are you referring to?
Question is: Where did you learn that phrase? I have never heard that phrase before. Besides, your argument makes no sense. Where in the Bible have you read the words cynical, asinine or just plain imbecelic?
the original poster didn't say what he was talking about. i don't know what you're talking about either. i've been posting a lot. which post are you referring to, pls? copy + paste and i'll answer you.
frank - what phrase? what makes no sense?
Bootyfunk (that felt wierd): Please forgive me. I inadvertently responded to TXnative's comment. When I saw, what I now know is your screename, I thought he was asking someone a question about it. Sorry, my friend. If I may, however, could you consider another less icky screename?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV-TR), it is classified under 302.9 Para philia Not Otherwise Specified and has no diagnostic criteria other than a general statement about para philias that says "the diagnosis is made if the behavior, exual urges, or fantasies cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning". Furthermore, the DSM-IV-TR notes, "Fantasies, behaviors, or objects are para philic only when they lead to clinically significant distress or impairment (e.g. are obligatory, result in exual dysfunction, require participation of nonconsenting individuals, lead to legal complications, interfere with social relationships)".
That's what these "scientists" say about scatophelia!!!
you are obsessed with scat and sodomy. lol.
me thinks the lady doth protest too much...
What's your point?
I know facts are difficult for you but realize that the inability to deal with it refers to the patient, not the bystanders or society. If the person has issues dealing with something, anything then they should seek treatment. However, just because you can't deal with it doesn't make it a problem for the gay community.
1. Gays and lesbians and Bi-sensualists are the fruits of sodomy
2. Sodomy is a wicked and vile Act of unrighteousness!
3. Anyone who sees no harm in sodomy are fooling themselves!
4. Sodomizers recruit the weak in vile and wicked sensualisms' ways!
5. The weak recruits of sodomy are brainwashed with repetativity in vile Acts of animalistic wickedness!
6. Sodmoizers are not truthful with their recruits and they lie about many things regarding sodomy!
7. Recruits of sodomy are from many branches of society
8.The new recruits are easy marks and willing to be led by their sodomite peers!
9. Sodomite vanities are in their actions portraying the religious to be the fools in order to break down the new recruits God given fences in their minds eyes!
10. Any sodomite will protray the godly of God to be the social misfits when the real misfits are the sodomizers!
12 Sodomy cannot grow without new recruits!
13. Do not give in to any sodomizer who tests your God given fence of rationalism to veer away from sensualistic acts and actions of the sodomites' kinds!
I wasn't recruited. I enlisted.
sodomy is great. my wife and i have a.nal s.ex as a regular part of our s.ex life. she says she orgasms in a completely different way.
have you tried it? sounds like maybe you have and had a bad experience. next time tell your partner he has to go slow at first, be gentle. he should talk to you and help you relax. and be very generous with the lubrication. you really can't have too much.
@Bootyfunk, tell him about the breathing. thats important too.
Sounds to me like you have some deep rooted fears. Maybe you will feel better if you come out of the closet.
Blasphemer! You will burn in hell for your foul portrayal of the word of our Lord God.
@ ChristopherM
Even the enlisted needs a recruiter to learn about the trade(s)
good point, PV.
don't hold your breath. try to breath evenly. good, even breathing will also help you relax.
A Serpent's Thought............ I bet you ar e blast at a swinger party
@ Bootyfunk
Promoting your marriage sensualism in the public eye might not sit well with your wife's views! Unless of course she like you doesn't give a damn about flaunting one's bedroom ways in the public limelights!
Got issues?
God, what a bunch of heathens, man this country is going down the toilet!
Human innocense has got to be the rarest thing on this planet, disgusting!
Everyone will get what they deserve, thank God!
I would like to point out that neither Paul nor McConnell are originally from Kentucky – Paul from Texas and McConnell from Mississippi. We deserve better.
yes you do.
OH MY GOD I CAN"T BELIEVE SOMEONE MOVED TO ANOTHER STATE IT"S A CONSPIRACY!
Wow! McConnell is from Mississippi? Well, that explains everything.
I think they both rock! You should be proud, they are REAL men!
how soon until tony perkins is caught with a 15 year old rent-a-boy and decides to resign in order to spend more time with his family and bring him closer to god?
One month
the Family Research Council is a hate group like the KKK and should be treated as such. They have no place on CNN or any television talk show.
agreed. they spout hate and bigotry.
the KKK is a christian organization too.
I have never meet a gay person to this day, only seen them on TV. They are not real, like the moon landing. This is the worst story ever, I am so sick of hearing about these fake poeple.
and you know what else? the world is flat, like it says in the bible! derp!
So they would fall under the same category as your education, you're saying?
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When you never leave the farm Bubba you only run into gay livestock.
According to you, if you have never met an Albanian, they are phony people and cannot exist.
You deal with them every day at the store, the doctors office, schools, police, fire, medic and in your church. While some are more flashy about it just like the 70's "gigilo guy" you would not know most of them were gay unless you asked. Now, start having a cold sweat that you might have actually shaked hands with or hugged one.
Icky
The American Psychiatric ({Psychopathologic") Association also fully approve of scatophilia. I don't think I'll take my directions from them!
Because god forbid you actually listen to someone with science backing them up.
what a surprise! another uneducated tea baggers making stuff up on the internet! wonders will never cease.
@beep
go find a hammer. hit yourself in the head, a lot. try aiming for your front lobe.
congratulations, you're smarter now.
Science? What a joke!
@PVS1,
Your use of the term "tea bagger" makes me wonder if you are jealous of other people's ability to perform this se.xual act on their se.xual partner?
Or perhaps you want to be tea bagged yourself, eh?
... not that it matters.
@ME II: why? you offering?
Kentucky-fried bigot.
Fortunately Republicans will jump all over this guy and accuse him of being a traitor, then go on cutting their own throats. Priebus(sp) actually said that dignity and respect have no place in marriage!
"Defending the family, the cornerstone of civilization, is not a distraction,” he said
"We are talking about individuals who feel very strongly one way or the other, and I think we should be civil, respectful, allowing all sides to have the debate."
I'm so sick of religious people trying to appear empathetic while still considering gay people in general something that will destroy civilization.
Religion offers people like Perkins the perfect mask – they can spew their hatred and bigotry, and then turn to their followers and claim they are doing the right thing because that's what "god" says.
In the end, it's just more of the same – religious people brainwashed into believing that the more horrible they are to gay people, the better chance they'll have of getting into heaven.
I don't want to deal with them at all, they are the ones crying, I wish they would just go away, but they will not. They have all the rights they need, they should leave marriage alone, if they do not, maybe they will get more attention then they wanted.
Rant Paul is from Kentucky, home of the "One and Done" National Championship basketball team. Methinks Rant will be "One and Done" in the Senate when his term is up.
Na, most people agree with him, thats reality, everyone is getting tired of the crybabys.
What ever happened to the republican/ Tea party slogan of" government stay out of our lives", then they turn around and make laws to suppress citizens free will.
stupid people are easy to sway.
Association brings on assimilation
good.
We're not the Borg, you ignoramus.
Christopher m birds of a feather flock together
Trust me when I say we don't want you flocking or doing anything else with us.
Nothing against gays as a person just against the act of a man porking another man .you may be a good human being I just think its wrong like lying just worse
Chris your kind should know when to shut up while they are ahead. Us regulars are getting tired of your demands, maybe we will nail your traps shut.
While I don't agree with sen. Rand Paul's methods of expressing his disagreement with president Obama I'll admit that we're on the brink here & if the gays are pushing for this issue we will push back. We won't go down without a fight which will include many things, this being one of them.
that's right, you'll fight against people civil rights to the death. good for you!
get an education.
Tolerance of disgusting things will go only so far. It has nothing do to with "uncivil rights" of gays, as everyone understands.
On the brink of what? Exactly what do you think will happen if gay folks are treated equally? That your marriage is suddenly going to implode because your desire to get it on with gays will be so irresistable? Get real.
wrong. it's exactly to do with civil rights. you're telling people they're aren't allowed to get married. if you weren't allowed to marry the person you love, you might have a different view.
Not everything someone wants is a right !
no, wanting cookies isn't a right. wanting to marry who you choose IS a right.
@ajk68
Rights are about equality, and marriage equality is about equality, therefore, gay rights are civil rights
This is absurd. If a man wants to marry a child, is that a civil rights too?
How about 2 wives? That's a civil rights too, eh?
To have government decide on marriage is stupid. 31 states, including CALIFORNIA when the issue was voted, all voted against gay marriage. No wonder Obam'as rating is now 42% versus Romney's 50% in the latest Rasmussen poll. Keep it up and we'll win it in a landslide. I guess Obama likes to come from behind, maybe, lol.
Thank you LOL! Marriage is defined by all civilizations that have ever existed as being between a man and a woman. If you cahnge the meaning of marriage, then I am no longer married. I do not want my wedding ring being associated with the behaviors of perverts. You gota pay more taxes? thats the choice YOU made!
If you knocked on a gay/lesbian household you would find....1) two people making dinner, 2) paying their bills, 3) dealing with some jerk telemarketer, 4) watching tv, 5) reading a book, 6) fixing a broken lamp. Or any other host of normal things that people do each day. It sure is interesting that some only focus on on small aspect of a couples life together.
Zex is not a small part of anyone's life. It's the one major aspect that controls to a large degree what we do in other parts of our lives.
I wouldn't knock on their door they are sickos
actually, you're the sicko. a prejudice small-minded moron. i wouldn't knock on your door except to tell you what an idiot you are.
Booty,
You live a life of depravity yet you say we have small minds! You disgust us, always have and always will. Why don't you go back to your closet where you belong, you want to bring this into the light, do not be suprised for the scorn and rejection.. run along now do what you LOVE soooo muuuuch!
By" gayer", he of course meant happier
Ha ha yeah right
CNN sucks won't post comments
...except for this one.
As a Kentuckian, I would sincerely like to apologized for having elected Rand Paul and that festering hemorrhoid that my neighbors elected, Mitch McConnell. I am truly sorry.
the chrisitian rule book says to kill g.a.y.s, non-virgin brides, disobedient children and anyone working on the weekend. the bible is disgusting.
Your apology is sincerely appreciated. You can not be held accountable for your neighbors. Stay Strong!
Sorry for what? Having a good man in office?
Gays are mentally sick people – they have their signals crossed. Treat them as you would any mentally sick person – with respect and compassion, but don't let them foist their sick ways on the rest of the society, or we'll all start cross-dressing soon!!
So true
Sure, because obviously my marriage getting recognized by the federal government is going to make you have the sudden desire to start wearing panties (which you probably secretly already do). And we're the ones with mental problems?
"Gays are mentally sick people"
The experts have proven you WRONG. The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Counseling Association, the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, the American School Counselor Association, the National Association of School Psychologists, and the National Association of SocialWorkers, together representing more than 480,000 mental health professionals, have all taken the position that homosexuality is not a mental disorder and thus is not something that needs to or can be “cured."
Well religion is for mentally sick people, what else do you call an ideology responsible for more deaths of innocent life including the largest pedophile ring in history, but yet we don't ban that. Because in America we are land of the free no matter how sick your belief is.
beep, you sound like an angry, closeted 14 year old.
Wow – bigot!!
The association listed below also fully approve of scatophilia. I don't think I'll take my directions from them!
"The association listed below also fully approve of scatophilia"
Cite your source on that......we're waiting liar.
No, actually the sickness is with people who deny science and don't support equal rights. "YeahRight" has it correct; you should do some research for a change. Education is powerful stuff.
Exactly.
What's next? Marriage between adult and child should be legal? I'm sure the guy feels that he loves the kid, so it's a civil rights issue to interfere, right?
How about multiple wives?
How about marriage between man and say, a dog?
Don't get yourself in too much of a tizzy, folks. Beep Beep is merely trolling. He probably doesn't even have a problem with gay people (or is just closeted himself) as much as he's an immature. passive aggressive type who just likes to get a rise out of people. Mission accomplished, thanks to all the other commenters blowing their stacks in response to him. The other funny part is that Bama Daniel, who agrees with Beep Beep, isn't a fellow troll. He's buying into Beep Beep just like the rest of you, but even worse- bama's coming from the perspective of looking *up* to Beep. Shudder. All I know is- #1- there's nothing wrong with gay people getting married and, if you have a problem with it, you're insecure in your own life, PERIOD. And #2 – Beep Beep is closeted, Bama is clueless, and the angry respondents are taking the bait.