Time to Educate the Public About the Real FRC

Tony Perkins and the folks at FRC are busy playing the victim and martyr role and claiming that the organization has been wrongly labeled as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  I sincerely hope that this focus on the organization turns around and backfires with the public learning just how nasty Mr. Perkins and his fellow Christofascist are in reality.  Joe My God has some great information and I suspect that the information will spill over into the main stream media.  It is especially important that minorities in this country realize Mr. Perkins' long and continued ties and dealings with white supremacy groups.  Mr. Perkins and FRC do NOT stand for "family values" or "Christian values" anymore than the KKK or Nazi party represent such values.  Here are some telling quotes from Joe Jervis' blog articles here and here that include information about Perkins' involvement with the KKK which he tried to cover up:

I've mentioned this many times before, but it's certainly worth mentioning again this week. From an SPLC article I've excerpted here before:

In 1996, while managing the U.S. Senate campaign of Woody Jenkins against Mary Landrieu, Perkins paid $82,500 to use the mailing list of former Klan chieftain David Duke. The campaign was fined $3,000 (reduced from $82,500) after Perkins and Jenkins filed false disclosure forms in a bid to hide their link to Duke. Five years later, on May 17, 2001, Perkins gave a speech to the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a white supremacist group that has described black people as a “retrograde species of humanity.” Perkins claimed not to know the group’s ideology at the time, but it had been widely publicized in Louisiana and the nation, because in 1999 — two years before Perkins’ speech to the CCC — Republican House Speaker Trent Lott had been embroiled in a national scandal over his ties to the group. GOP chairman Jim Nicholson then urged Republicans to avoid the CCC because of its “racist views.” The Duke incident surfaced again in local press in 2002, when Perkins ran for the Republican nomination for the Senate, dooming his campaign to a fourth-place finish in the primaries.

From the Council Of Conservative Citizen's statement of principles:

We believe in the traditional family as the basic unit of human society and morality, and we oppose all efforts by the state and other powers to weaken the structure of the American family through toleration of sexual licentiousness, homosexuality and other perversions, mixture of the races, pornography in all forms, and subversion of the authority of parents.

The sad reality is that most of the purported "family values" groups that have garnered a hate group designation from the Southern Poverty Law Center have similar strong under currents of racism and white supremacy ideology even though they shamelessly dupe and manipulate black pastors into acting as their water carriers.  Here in Virginia, The Family Foundation ("TFF") is an affiliate of FRC and, in my opinion, subscribes to precisely the same kind of racism and bigotry espoused by Mr. Perkins.  Yet the Virginia GOP and far too many black pastors continue to do TFF's bidding like trained circus dogs.  The good news, as noted yesterday in a post about the National Organization for Marriage, is that perhaps the black community is belatedly beginning to wake up to the truce toxicity of these white evangelical groups.  Here's more on the Perkins/KKK link:

The FEC originally fined the campaign $82,600, the same amount of the payment to David Duke, but the fine was reduced after mediation. The fine, it should be noted, was for attempting to cloak the payment on federally required campaign expenditure forms. It is not against the rules to buy mailing lists from the KKK or anybody else. You just have to say you did.

How any responsible mainstream media outlet can give Perkins a platform is mind numbing.  They might just as well give a platform to the KKK or neo-Nazi groups.  Perkins and FRC need to become pariahs that no decent news outlet wants to touch.