Soulforce's Mel White Slams Tony Perkins on Anderson Cooper's 360

I frequently post about the outrageously untrue statements disseminated by professional Christian, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council - an organization that definitely believes that the Commandment against lying and bearing false witness is to be ignored at will. Thus, it was most enjoyable to see Mel White of Soulforce lay into Perkins for his ad hominid attacks on gays and the knowingly false statements that seem to emanate from Perkins' mouth whenever his lips are moving. Like White, I have monitored FRC and Perkins for years and both the organization as a whole and Perkins individually care nothing about repeating shockingly false lies over and over again. White properly follows the approach of telling the truth about Christianists as long as they continue to lie about LGBT Americans. Here are some highlights of the exchange via Toweleroad and CNN:

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COOPER: I've got to give Mel the last word, because I gave Tony the first word -- Mel.

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WHITE: It's really important for people to realize that Tony and Dobson and these others have been misleading the public for so many years about sexual orientation and gender identity. It's so important to see through their half-truths and their hyperboles. It's really important to realize the damage they're doing by not saying that God created us gay. God loves us gay. And we should have all the rights that the American people provide all of us. So Tony sounds good like Rick, but they're really saying things that are horrible and destructive.

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PERKINS: Well, I would just say it's not true. The Bible speaks for itself.

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WHITE: The Bible says nothing about homosexuality, Tony.

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PERKINS: You know that very well that it does. But Mel, nonetheless, Mel, I love you. Appreciate you as a human being.

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WHITE: Don't say that because as soon as you say about gay people lead to destruction, the break-up of families... You continue this, "We love you, but we hate you. We love you, but...We don't want you to have rights. Tony, I've read your material. I've monitored you for ten years. You've got to get off this anti-gay stuff, because they're leaving the churches, because they've seen through your fundamentalist stuff."

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Personally, I do not understand how someone can lie as callously as Perkins does on literally a daily basis with no apparent concern for the harm he does to others. I guess his focus is all on himself and the comfortable life he maintains spreading lies and shaking down money from the ignorant and gullible. In my view, Perkins is disgusting.