We all knew they believe this. But now is official.

Dan Savage Takes Down Porno Pete

Dan Savage Responds To Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins

Via Slog:

The robustly heterosexual head of the Family Research Council went on Mike Huckabee’s radio show today to respond to my recent comments. Huckabee said I was rude and vile and unhappy—please, Rev. Girlfriend, I listen toGypsy when I’m at the gym (unhappy gay men listen to Passion at the gym)—and then it wasTony Perkins’ turn:

• As my teenagers would say, he has some issues. He is a man with some real deep-seated issues … and Dan Savage is nowhere near, he’s a hundred and eighty degrees from the positions that we have taken. It’s wrong and I will tell you this,we are pursuing everything possible to deal with him because he is out of control…. This is the bottom line, Mike: is that if you don’t embrace and celebrate homosexuality and everything associated with it, then you are intolerant. And the truth of the matter is, let’s just be very, very truthful, and that’s what we deal in is the truth, that even is society embraced homosexuality, there would never be that sense of self-fulfillment because it’s outside the way God created man and woman. And that’s the bottom line. They cannot erase that, even if they get every law on the books changed, it will never change that.

Yes, Tony, I have issues.I have issues with people who would deny me and other LGBT people our full civil equality for no legitimate reason. I have particular issues with high-profile haters who encourage parents to reject their LGBT kids, doubling their already quadrupled risk for suicide. I have issues with people who say that LGBT people are “pawns of the devil.” I have issues with people who compare LGBT people to terrorists. I have issues with people who falsely link homosexuality and pedophilia. I have issues with people who suggest that a law calling for the execution of gay people merely “upholds moral conduct.”But having issues with you, Tony, isn’t quite the same thing as “having issues.” Please make a note of it.And you didn’t address the actual issue I raised during your chat today with Huckabee. You and Mike called me names—because you were angry that I called you names?—but you didn’t address the issue. So here it is again:

• LGBT kids are four times greater risk of suicide. Tony Perkinsadvises the parents of LGBT kids to reject their children. LGBT kids who are rejected by their parents are at eight times greater risk of suicide. Perkins is aware of these studies and yet heactively encourages the parents of LGBT kids to do what Perkins knows will push those kids closer to suicide.

Sue me, Tony. I’d love to see you talk about my “issues” on a witness stand.I realize that this isn’t how you think the world is supposed to work, Tony. You believe—and you’re old enough to remember a time when—people like you were free to say vile and disgusting things people like me without anyone objecting. Certainly people like me weren’t allowed to call you out. You believe you should be free to lie about me and other LGBT people—we’re all pedophiles and terrorists and Satanists—and that we should have to sit down and shut up and take it because… well, I’m not sure why you think we’re not allowed to respond when you lie about us.Maybe that’s something we could get to the bottom of during the depositions.

“Moron Of The Week” Inductee & Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins Might Pursue Legal Action Against Dan Savage

Right Wing Watch reports:

Last week, Dan Savage set off a controversy when he declared that “every dead gay kid is a victory for the Family Research Council,” so it was no surprise that today Mike Huckabee invited FRC’s Tony Perkins on to his radio program to respond, allowing both men to spend most of the discussion voicing their outrage about his remarks, with Perkins even hinting that legal action might be taken:

• Huckabee: I found Dan Savage to be unnecessarily rude, vile, and angry. Just angry. He was not a happy person and he just takes out his venom on other people, but he’s gone to a level I’ve never seen.
• Perkins: As my teenagers would say, he has some issues. He is a man with some real deep-seated issues … and Dan Savage is nowhere near, he’s a hundred and eighty degrees from the positions that we have taken. It’s wrong and I will tell you this, we are pursuing everything possible to deal with him because he is out of control.

Perkins then went on to attack gay activists in general, declaring that they will always feel empty inside because they are “outside the way God created” them: 

• This is the bottom line, Mike: is that if you don’t embrace and celebrate homosexuality and everything associated with it, then you are intolerant. And the truth of the matter is, let’s just be very, very truthful, and that’s what we deal in is the truth, that even is society embraced homosexuality, there would never be that sense of self-fulfillment because it’s outside the way God created man and woman. And that’s the bottom line. They cannot erase that, even if they get every law on the books changed, it will never change that.

“Moron Of The Week” Inductee & Hate Group Leader Linda Harvey: “California Bans Heterosexuality”

Dan Savage: “Tony Perkins Sits On A Pile Of Gay Kids Everyday”

I just love Dan. He tells shit like it is. Straight forward. Love him.

SPLC Vs Eugene Delgaudio & Public Advocate US

Hill v. PAUS Complaint - Filed 092612

Well, this is awesome! In case you’re not familiar with this case, Hate Group “Public Advocate US” used a photo of a gay couple kissing to promote their anti-gay agenda in Colorado against State Senators that supported civil partnerships for gay and lesbian couples. The thing is, that picture (right) was used with out the couples consent nor the photographer’s license. So the Southern Poverty Law Center is seeking to take this sons of bitches to Court over two main issues:

1. The unlawful use of a copyrighted photograph, and
2. The damage of the image and human dignity of the couple on the photograph (Tom Privitere and Brian Edwards)

[…] For years, “Public Advocate” has spread lies and vitriol about LGBT people to raise funds, impede progress toward greater equality, and to deny LGBT people basic dignity and respect. From the many regrettable examples that could be listed, “Public Advocate” has throughout the years:
 
•       blamed “the homosexual agenda” for enhanced-passenger-search procedures at airports so that gay people can feel others up;
•       compared marriage equality to bestiality through production of a “Man-Donkey Mock Wedding Ceremony”;
 
•       defamed gay people as pedophiles and rapists to be feared, in reference, for example, to permitting gay scout masters, which is “the same as being an accessory to the rape of hundreds of boys”;
•       demonized gay people and those suffering from AIDS as “prey[ing] on children to replenish the ‘Homo-sexual Community’”;• provoked readers through a fundraising letter to “imagine a world where the police allow homosexual adults to rape young boys in the streets”;
•       promoted harmful, discredited conversion therapy as necessary and effective to rescue gay people from their orientation; and
•               mischaracterized national legislation to address an epidemic of anti-LGBT harassment at schools as “requir[ing] schools to teach appalling homosexual acts…force private and even religious schools to teach a pro-homosexual agenda…ram through their entire perverted vision for a homosexual America….create a new America based on sexual promiscuity.”
 
Because of these misrepresentations and numerous others, the Southern Poverty Law Center has previously designated “Public Advocate” as a hate group. […]

PS. Eugene Delgaudio is the President of the Public Advocates for the U.S. He can be reached at his email address: eugene@joineugene.com

“Moron Of The Week” Inductee Mitt “Magic Underpants” Romney’s Message To FRC’s Hate Fest

SPLC Defends FRC’s Hate Group Status On Bill O’Reilly

Debate: Dan Savage Vs Brian Brown

Audio: Tony Perkins Claims Heinous Uganda’s “Kill The Gays” Bill Upholds Moral Conduct

The Southern Poverty Center Condemns Hate Group’s Head (Family Research Council) Tony Perkins

From SPLC Senior Fellow Mark Potak, via press release and posted publicly to the Southern Poverty Law Center website:

Yesterday’s attack on the Family Research Council and the shooting of a security guard there was a tragedy. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) deplores all violence, and our thoughts are with the wounded victim, Leo Johnson, his family and others who lived through the attack.

For more than 40 years, the SPLC has battled against political extremism and political violence. We have argued consistently that violence is no answer to problems in a democratic society, and we have strongly criticized all those who endorse such violence, whether on the political left or the political right.

But this afternoon, FRC President Tony Perkins attacked the SPLC, saying it had encouraged and enabled the attack by labeling the FRC a “hate group.” The attacker, Floyd Corkins, “was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center,” Perkins said. “I believe the Southern Poverty Law Center should be held accountable for their reckless use of terminology.”

Perkins’ accusation is outrageous. The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people — not, as some claim, because it opposes same-sex marriage. The FRC and its allies on the religious right are saying, in effect, that offering legitimate and fact-based criticism in a democratic society is tantamount to suggesting that the objects of criticism should be the targets of criminal violence.

As the SPLC made clear at the time and in hundreds of subsequent statements and press interviews, we criticize the FRC for claiming, in Perkins’ words, that pedophilia is “a homosexual problem” — an utter falsehood, as every relevant scientific authority has stated. An FRC official has said he wanted to “export homosexuals from the United States.” The same official advocated the criminalizing of homosexuality.

Perkins and his allies, seeing an opportunity to score points, are using the attack on their offices to pose a false equivalency between the SPLC’s criticisms of the FRC and the FRC’s criticisms of LGBT people. The FRC routinely pushes out demonizing claims that gay people are child molesters and worse — claims that are provably false. It should stop the demonization and affirm the dignity of all people.

WASHINGTON D. C.: Shooting At Hate Group’s Headquarters, Family Research Council

ABC News reports:

A security guard at a conservative Christian lobbying group housed in a busy downtown Washington office building was shot and injured late Wednesday morning, police say.
The shooting took place either near or at the offices of the Family Research Council, which is located at 801 G Street, about a block west of the Verizon Center.
The guard, who was shot in the arm, was conscious and breathing after the incident. A suspect, who ABC 7’s Jennifer Donelan reports was led out of the building in handcuffs, is in custody.
In a statement posted to their website, FRC President Tony Perkins said one of the victims worked with the organization.
“The police are investigating this incident,” Perkins said in a statement. “Our first concern is with our colleague who was shot today. Our concern is for him and his family.”
The Associated Press identifies the FRC as a “conservative Christian lobbying group.” On its website, the group says it advocates “faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion.”
Authorities have closed the 800 block of G Street NW in both directions while the investigation continues. Donelan reports that FBI officials are on the scene.

UPDATE: Fox News (personally I don’t believe this claim, but we’ll see) is reporting that the shooter denounced the FRC before firing.

The suspect “made statements regarding their policies, and then opened fire with a gun striking a security guard,” a source told Fox News. Authorities were treating the attack as a case of domestic terrorism. The FRC is a conservative nonprofit that seeks to advance “faith, family and freedom in public policy and public opinion,” according to its website. The group weighs in on policy, and has often sent representatives to Congress to weigh in on the social effects of policy matters.

RELATED: “Moron Of The Week” Inductee Bryan Fischer blames The Southern Poverty Law Center for the shooting:

If SPLC is right, that using irresponsible language re: homosexuality causes violence, then they to blame for FRC shooting.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) August 15, 2012

RELATED: The Southern Poverty Law Center made the following statement on their website:

We’ve seen news of the shooting of a security guard today at the Family Research Council office in Washington, D.C., and are getting media inquiries about it. There are unconfirmed reports that the shooting was ideologically motivated. We condemn all acts of violence and are following the story closely.

Israel: Jerusalem Pride Draws 4,000 Marchers,  Liduk Leader Moshe Feiglin Brings Donkeys & Hatred 

RELATED: In the past, Feiglin has said that the Nazi Party was made of up “thugs and homosexuals.”