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warrior1

(12,325 posts)
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 02:28 PM Apr 2012

Hate group leader: ‘Open homosexuality’ caused Secret Service scandal

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/hate-group-leader-open-homosexuality-caused-secret-service-scandal/


The leader of an anti-LGBT rights group on Monday said a scandal where Secret Service agents were caught with female prostitutes in Columbia was actually the fault of “open homosexuality in our military.”

Speaking to conservative radio host Janet Mefferd, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council — a hate group, according the the Southern Poverty Law Center — connected the prostitution scandal to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

“Just for a moment step back and look at the implications of this, over the weekend we saw the news of the President’s Secret Service detail in Colombia and the issue of them hiring prostitutes and now the White House is outraged about that,” Perkins observed. “It was actually legal; it was legal there to do that, so why should we be upset? Well, the fact is we intuitively know it’s wrong, there’s a moral law against that.”

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LaurenG

(24,841 posts)
3. What??
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 02:30 PM
Apr 2012

This must be the thoughts of a creationist as well since logic is a foreign concept to them too.

ck4829

(35,042 posts)
7. Yep, that's why the FRC is a hate group
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 02:35 PM
Apr 2012

When you have logic of "The secret service acted inappropriately... and I blame it on gays", it certainly isn't love.

sinkingfeeling

(51,444 posts)
11. I doubt the White House is upset because the SS used hookers. I think
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 03:04 PM
Apr 2012

they might be more concerned with the Service's reputation and that they weren't looking out for the things they're paid to do.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
14. Okayyy. And by that "logic" if I shoot out the
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 03:58 PM
Apr 2012

streetlights every night, that is what makes the sun go down.

Behind the Aegis

(53,944 posts)
15. If I could contort my body the way this dillweed just did with his words....
Tue Apr 17, 2012, 04:12 PM
Apr 2012

...I'd be a happy boy...and probably in films.

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