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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTony Perkins: State Lawmakers No Longer Have To Combat Bathroom-In-Chief Obama
Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBTQ group Family Research Council, said yesterday that state lawmakers and religious conservatives have not had to fight as hard on social issues on the state level recently because the United States is no longer being run by bathroom-in-chief Barack Obama.
During yesterdays episode of Washington Watch, Perkins responded to a New York Times article that reported that the Religious Rights fights on social issues are gaining little legislative momentum in statehouses. Perkins pushed back on any notion that state lawmakers dont want to waste time on icky social issues and claimed that social issues are simply a lower priority under President Trump.
Theres no need to spend all the legislative time on these issues about who uses the bathroom because we no longer have the bathroom-in-chief, Barack Obama, Perkins said, referring to efforts in conservative state legislatures to limit the bathrooms available to transgender people. Recall it was the White House that put down an order, sent down an order, through the Department of Justice and the Department of Education as to who could use what bathroombasically, bathroom confusion. That is what that former president was occupied with.
Well now we have a president that understands the confines of the White House in terms of its limits by the Constitution, Perkins said, going on to praise Trumps reversal of the Obama administrations guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.
Could it be that the liberal media once again is wanting to put their spin, if not create, news, as opposed to report it? Perkins said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tony-perkins-state-lawmakers-no-longer-have-to-combat-bathroom-in-chief-obama/
During yesterdays episode of Washington Watch, Perkins responded to a New York Times article that reported that the Religious Rights fights on social issues are gaining little legislative momentum in statehouses. Perkins pushed back on any notion that state lawmakers dont want to waste time on icky social issues and claimed that social issues are simply a lower priority under President Trump.
Theres no need to spend all the legislative time on these issues about who uses the bathroom because we no longer have the bathroom-in-chief, Barack Obama, Perkins said, referring to efforts in conservative state legislatures to limit the bathrooms available to transgender people. Recall it was the White House that put down an order, sent down an order, through the Department of Justice and the Department of Education as to who could use what bathroombasically, bathroom confusion. That is what that former president was occupied with.
Well now we have a president that understands the confines of the White House in terms of its limits by the Constitution, Perkins said, going on to praise Trumps reversal of the Obama administrations guidelines on the rights of transgender students in public schools.
Could it be that the liberal media once again is wanting to put their spin, if not create, news, as opposed to report it? Perkins said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tony-perkins-state-lawmakers-no-longer-have-to-combat-bathroom-in-chief-obama/
God what a snowflake!
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Tony Perkins: State Lawmakers No Longer Have To Combat Bathroom-In-Chief Obama (Original Post)
Initech
Jan 2018
OP
Tony Perkins is a MONSTER. I bet he as a sexual harrassment or scandal in his past.
trueblue2007
Jan 2018
#2
He wants to beat up trans people in the bathroom and kill pregnant women in back alleys
Eliot Rosewater
Jan 2018
#3
spanone
(135,950 posts)1. hey tony. go. fuck. yourself.
you don't have a cell in your body that is Christian
thegoose
(3,115 posts)8. And the media's always going...
"Ooh, ooh! What about the evangelicals?" and clutching their pearls.
Fuck them. They're nothing angelic about them.
trueblue2007
(17,250 posts)2. Tony Perkins is a MONSTER. I bet he as a sexual harrassment or scandal in his past.
We should dig into his past
Initech
(100,149 posts)7. Wouldn't surprise me in the least!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,150 posts)3. He wants to beat up trans people in the bathroom and kill pregnant women in back alleys
JI7
(89,289 posts)4. Christian trash, they support the right of hetero men to rape underage girls
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)5. Maybe separate bathrooms for liberals and conservatives?
Knowing full well what those asshole conservatives get up to in the bathroom, I don't want to go anywhere near that place!
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)6. A completely unchrist-like fraud!
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)12. If only Jesus would visit and clue his followers into the fact
that they're following the wrong people.
It's almost like god won't bother to correct us if we can't figure it out for ourselves.
Or maybe he isn't really there.
VOX
(22,976 posts)9. Fuck this guy and his FAR-right-wing, phony Christian posturing.
Perkins would have fit right in with the boys of the Third Reich.
onecaliberal
(33,012 posts)10. what a complete piece of shit. Stop calling this fucker christian.
Initech
(100,149 posts)13. Christianity has been taken over by hate-mongers like Perkins.
onecaliberal
(33,012 posts)15. These people are not Christians.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)11. Poor Tony's elevator doesn't run all the way up to the top
maxsolomon
(33,473 posts)14. Disingenuous misinformation
that is NOT what any DOJ or DOE memo said.