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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 04:34 PM
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Perkins: Advocates of Church-State Separation Are "Cultural Terrorists"
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-advocates-church-state-separation-are-cultural-terrorists

While the Family Research Council tries to paint itself as one of the Religious Right’s more mainstream and respectable lobbying organizations, its extreme rhetoric continues to gain exposure. Just yesterday, for instance, FRC president Tony Perkins called the anti-suicide It Gets Better Project “immoral” and “disgusting” in a fundraising letter.

Now, Perkins is calling advocates of church-state separation “cultural terrorists.” Yesterday during Today’s Issues with American Family Association president Tim Wildmon on the AFA’s American Family Radio, Perkins portrayed liberals as unpatriotic and attacked legal organizations that support secular government as un-American, comparing them to terrorists.

Earlier this month, Perkins joined FRC Senior Fellow Ken Blackwell in expressing outrage about a questionable report that Vice President Joe Biden likened Tea Party activists to terrorists. As Kyle pointed out at the time, the FRC had itself produced a documentary which described the Employment Non-Discrimination Act as “economic terrorism” for adding job protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Now, Perkins is using the ‘terrorist’ language to depict people who believe in the separation of church and state:

*more at link above*

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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 04:41 PM
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1. Excellent.Their fears are an indication things are slowly progressing. nt
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 04:45 PM
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2. Forgive me
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But somehow this one is appropriate here.
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