My blogger friend Jeremy Hooper does an amazing job of shifting through the pronouncements and web sites of leading anti-gay hate groups and exposing their malice and theocratic agenda time and time again. Jeremy has again struck pay dirt in exposing the agenda of Family Research Council ("FRC") - a registered hate group and affiliate of The Family Foundation which controls the Virginia GOP - to "go on the offensive" and disseminate more lies and fraudulent "studies" and attempt to brainwash youth with its lies and disinformation. Leading this charge, of course is FRC head, Tony Perkins who has a white supremacist background that the mainstream media fails to spot light time and time again (the image above shows Perkins addressing a white supremacy group). For rational, thinking Americans who value the Constitution and religious freedom for all, FRC should cause nightmares because no lie is to big and not fraudulent claim to outrageous. Jeremy makes this comment:
Not sure the Family Research Council wanted people like me to see this, a document where the notoriously deceptive D.C. special interest groups lays out its plan to prevail over "anti-family" forces. But I did see it. So here, you should too.
Think Progress neatly summarizes the poisonous FRC agenda. Here are highlights:
[T]his document provides a candid look at how this prominent anti-gay hate group views the culture war and where its focus will be moving forward. What’s particularly notable is FRC’s admission that its agenda is completely religious in nature, but that it intends to force its beliefs upon others. Here are a few highlights:
GO ON OFFENSE: FRC has consistently played great defense. But at this “moment of critical mass” for this and the next generation, we must go on the offense to advance the Christian worldview as America’s only hope. We must double our impact!
GENERATE BIASED RESEARCH: Society listens to academic research, so we must use the language the secular world understands to prove that marriage and worship are foundational to a healthy society and economy. The left has many large institutes manufacturing faulty research to support their anti-family agenda, pro-family conservatives need a social science research powerhouse.
TARGET YOUNG PEOPLE: We have an aggressive plan to engage high school and college students, equip young leaders, and find new ways to communicate truth to the internet generation… we must flood the public debate with fresh, new pro-family activists. FRC must expand our development of materials and video curriculum to equip pastors and laypeople to effectively engage the culture… To expand our reach, we must expand our team that works directly with pastors and their congregations.
FRC clearly sees that on questions like marriage equality, it is losing on multiple fronts. All legitimate scientific research lends credence to supporting LGBT equality — the left’s “many large institutes” include every major medical organization in the country. The intense amount of pushback on Mark Regnerus’ illegitimate conclusions about the harms of gay parenting provides a great example of conservatives’ failure to justify their religious-based biases with scientific data.
Further, polling continues to show distinct generation gaps among young people on all LGBT issues, so FRC’s concern about targeting young people is telling. The tactic is a bit ironic, given that conservatives regularly attack the LGBT community for trying to “indoctrinate” young people, but that’s exactly what they want to do.
As indicated, here in Virginia, FRC works hand in glove with The Family Foundation to push for theocracy and to dupe and intimidate members of the GOP who are constantly threatened with a primary challenge if they fail to do TFF's foul biding. No one in Virginia bears more hatred and animus towards LGBT rights and lives than TFF.
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