Powerful Homophobe Tony Perkins to Head Trump's Religious Freedom Org.
The vehemently anti-LGBTQ Perkins was elected Monday to chair the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
June 19 2019 2:40 PM
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Tony Perkins
Read the latest news about Tony Perkins, president of the antigay organization Family Research Council. Tony Perkins is a pundit that frequently directs vitriol at the LGBT community, promoting an agenda that considers same-sex attraction to be against nature and the good of greater society. Learn more about the former Republican politician and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, as well as other public figures that are against marriage equality, gays in the military, and other LGBT rights issues.
Evangelicals Furious Over Trump Plan to Decriminalize Homosexuality
Some of Trump's most fervent supporters feel betrayed by the move, although they're reluctant to blame him specifically.
February 22 2019 3:46 PM
Tony Perkins Is Furious CrossFit Canned Its Antigay Employee
The president of the Family Research Council stand up for a man who described LGBT people as "sinful" and "intolerant."
June 08 2018 5:27 PM
Tony Perkins: 'Moral Vacuum,' Not Guns, to Blame for School Shooting
We have a "spiritually sick society," according to the anti-LGBT Christian right activist.
May 22 2018 10:47 AM
Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins Joins Religious Freedom Commission
The virulently anti-LGBT Perkins was appointed to the government body by Sen. Mitch McConnell.
May 15 2018 7:47 PM
Christian Right Loves Trump's Policies, Forgives His Sins
Conservative Christians see Trump as someone whos will punch "leftist" bullies, says the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins.
January 23 2018 2:18 PM
Trump Will Be First President to Address Anti-LGBT Values Voter Summit
Trump, who addressed the gathering as a candidate the past two years, joins far-right luminaries such as Roy Moore, Phil Robertson, and Michele Bachmann.
October 12 2017 4:13 PM
Reading the Far Right: Defending Comey's Canning, Hating on Handmaids
Right-wingers are also lamenting the withdrawal of anti-LGBT Army secretary nominee Mark Green.
May 15 2017 1:14 PM
The Far Right Is Quivering With Excitement Over Neil Gorsuch
Both social and economic conservatives are overjoyed with Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
February 01 2017 1:54 PM
Will Rex Tillerson Fire All LGBT Employees at State Department?
Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of State is called on to fire LGBT people.
December 17 2016 5:53 AM
Donald Trump Makes Flood Relief Donation to Tony Perkins's Church
The Republican presidential nominee donated $100,000 to the church where the hate-group leader is interim pastor.
August 21 2016 8:29 PM
Republican Platform Takes Stands Against Restroom Access, for 'Ex-Gay' Therapy
And it still opposes marriage equality, thanks to delegates like Family Research Council leader Tony Perkins.
July 11 2016 11:07 PM
Tony Perkins Chased Out of Building by Pro-LGBT Disrupter
GetEqual leaders directly confronted hate leader Tony Perkins, holding his feet to the fire for LGBT murders and suicides.
June 22 2016 9:57 AM
Far Right Lauds North Carolina for Blocking 'Special Rights'
Christian conservatives are using familiar anti-LGBT tropes in their praise for North Carolina's exclusionary new law.
March 25 2016 9:34 PM
Tony Perkins Revives Role as GOP's Hate-Whisperer
Perkins, who helped strengthen the antigay language in 2012's platform, is once again a convention delegate and platform committee member.
March 17 2016 12:19 PM
Ted Cruz Creates Anti-LGBT 'Religious Liberty' Panel
The group, which will advise Cruz on policy, includes hate group leader Tony Perkins, the Benham brothers, and more.
March 02 2016 4:09 PM
Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins Endorses Ted Cruz
Of all the Republican candidates, Cruz is 'best prepared to lead this nation forward,' says the president of the antigay Family Research Council
January 27 2016 7:07 PM
Hate Group Demands Ben Carson Explain Himself
Carson should make clear that the supportive policies he apparently endorsed as a board member at Costco and Kellogg won't translate to public policy, says Perkins.
November 02 2015 11:35 AM
Huckabee Cries 'Free Kim Davis,' Others Call Her Rosa Parks
Right-wing politicians and pundits have found a hero and martyr in the Kentucky county clerk.
September 03 2015 8:02 PM
WATCH: Duggar's Hypocrisy Is No 'Excuse to Live in Sin'
As Tony Perkins defends right-wing beliefs, someone who's left the movement analyzes the shame and denial that most likely motivated Josh Duggar.
August 28 2015 4:20 PM