The Family Research Council is a 'hate group'?
Giuliani out?
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seems rather vile:
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/family-research-council
I can call myself fluffy bunnies and roses org. and still be a total cunt to people.
Sounds like they just oppose LGBT due to their biblical beliefs. Hell if you use that as a metric, then the entire Muslim religion is a hate group.
This doesn't sound real hateful:
Vision and Mission Statements
Vision Statement:
Family Research Council's vision is a prevailing culture in which all human life is valued, families flourish, and religious liberty thrives.
Mission of Organization:
Family Research Council's mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview.
No, but this does:
In Its Own Words
“Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement.”
— Robert Knight, FRC director of cultural studies, and Frank York, 1999
“[Homosexuality] … embodies a deep-seated hatred against true religion.”
— Steven Schwalm, FRC senior writer and analyst, in “Desecrating Corpus Christi,” 1999
"One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the 'prophets' of a new sexual order."
— FRC publication, "Homosexual Behavior and Pedophilia," Robert Knight and Frank York, 1999
"A little-reported fact is that homosexual and lesbian relationships are far more violent than are traditional married households."
— Timothy Dailey, FRC publication, "Homosexual Parenting: Placing Children at Risk," 2002
“While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. … It is a homosexual problem.”
— FRC President Tony Perkins, FRC website, 2010
“[W]elcoming open homosexuality in the military would clearly damage the readiness and effectiveness of the force – in part because it would increase the already serious problem of homosexual assault in the military.”
— Peter Sprigg, “Homosexual Assault in the Military," 2010
"Those who understand the homosexual community — the activists — they're very aggressive, they're — everything they accuse us of they are in triplicate. They're intolerant, they're hateful, vile, they're spiteful. .... To me, that is the height of hatred, to be silent when we know there are individuals that are engaged in activity, behavior, and an agenda that will destroy them and our nation."
— Tony Perkins, speaking to the Oak Initiative Summit, April 2011
“The videos are titled 'It Gets Better.' They are aimed at persuading kids that although they'll face struggles and perhaps bullying for 'coming out' as homosexual (or transgendered or some other perversion), life will get better. …It's disgusting. And it's part of a concerted effort to persuade kids that homosexuality is okay and actually to recruit them into that lifestyle."
— Tony Perkins, FRC fundraising letter, August 2011
"We believe the evidence shows … that relative to the size of their population, homosexual men are more likely to engage in child sexual abuse than are heterosexual men."
— Peter Sprigg, "Debating Homosexuality: Understanding Two Views," 2011
“The reality is, homosexuals have entered the Scouts in the past for predatory purposes.”
— FRC Vice President Rob Schwarzwalder, on radio’s “The Janet Mefferd Show,” February 1, 2013
“[H]omosexual activists vehemently reject the evidence which suggests that homosexual men … are … relative to their numbers, more likely to engage in such actions [childhood sexual abuse] than are heterosexual men.”
— Peter Sprigg, Senior Fellow for Policy Studies at FRC, on why the Boy Scouts should not allow LGBT Scouts or leaders, FRC blog, February 1, 2013
“Family Research Council believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed. It is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects.”
— Family Research Council website, 2016
“The position of social conservatives regarding homosexuality is based on the conviction that homosexual conduct is objectively harmful.
— FRC senior fellow Peter Sprigg, “How to Respond to the LGBT Movement,” pamphlet published February 2018
“I know they’ll mock at that idea, but look, if you are a male — genetically you are a male, biologically you’re a male — and you say, ‘Well, I’m not a male. I’m a female.’ I mean, what’s to keep you from saying that you’re an animal?”
— Tony Perkins on being transgender on his “Washington Watch” radio show, May 14, 2018
“Three years since the decision that redefined marriage for America, the Left is still bulldozing their way through every possible social norm. The country finally realized -- too late -- that this isn't about two people who love each other. It's about obliterating every moral and cultural boundary humans have ever known.”
— Tony Perkins, “Military’s ‘Don’t Ask’ the Turning Point in Bigger War,” July 19, 2018
The crimes committed are more numerous and wider ranging in type in the present case. Nixon did not participate in and had no prior knowledge of the initial precipitating crime incidental to the criminal cover-up which he both directed and participated in. In a separate incident, however, he attempted to bribe a federal judge sitting in the Daniel Elsberg case. Trump, on the other hand, has directed and directly participated in a wide range of federal and state felonies and civil crimes and obstructed justice in numerous instances. The disrespect for the law and subpoenas is more blatant now than in Nixon's case -- Nixon was a well educated, experienced lawyer, whereas Trump is a bully and gangster who has already been a defendant or plaintiff in over 4000 lawsuits. Nixon, who famously said to his chief of staff, "Bob, when the President does it, it is not illegal," had enough sense not to commit his crimes in plain sight on National Television! A number of Nixon's top people went to prison, but Nixon escaped that fate when Ford* pardoned him. All of Nixon's crimes were federal, at least he was not indicted for any state crimes after he resigned. Trump may end up doing time because of state crimes for which Pence can't pardon him.
In Nixon's time, as now, the Republicans stuck with Nixon until it became untenable to do so after many months of investigation and hearings. Then as now, there was a cascade of revelations toward the end that made it impossible for the Republicans to continue lying on Nixon's behalf. One very notable difference between then and now, is that Nixon stuck with and was protective of the members of his staff who participated in the the cover-up rather than throwing them quickly under the bus at the first sign of trouble.
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Ford became vice President when Nixon's running mate and V.P., Spiro Agnew, of "nattering nabobs of negativity" fame, and a former Maryland Governor, resigned and plead no contest to felony tax evasion. He had been investigated by the U.S. Attorney in Maryland for bribery, extortion and tax fraud. It was established that he had been receiving kickbacks from Maryland contractors even after he became Vice President.
Trump has an interesting history of not knowing various criminals from his past when it becomes convenient for him not to know them. For example, he said he wouldn't know Felix Sater , Russian-American mobster and convicted felon, "if he walked into the Room." Which is odd, since the two had offices near one another in Trump tower, were business associates and Sater carried a business card showing he was associated with the Trump organization.
