Liberal Group Tries to Censor FRC on MSNBC
The liberal religious activist group Faithful America and Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, delivered a petition filled with 20,000 signatures to MSNBC on Tuesday.
The petition demands the network stop inviting frequent guest, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council (FRC), on the air.
According to its website, FRC seeks to "advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and public opinion." The non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. was labeled as a hate group by the left wing activist group, Southern Poverty Law Center. They claim the FRC makes "false claims about the LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science." The Southern Poverty Law Center also said that FRC's intention was to "denigrate LGBT people in its battles against same-sex marriage, hate crimes laws, anti-bullying programs and the repeal of the military’s 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' policy." The Southern Poverty Law Center routinely lists conservative groups who offend liberals as hate groups, but they do not paint liberal groups which also engage in inflammatory rhetoric with the same brush.
A group of demonstrators gathered outside MSNBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Tuesday to present the 20,000 signatures to network representatives. Bishop Robinson said, "We've got teenagers killing themselves because of what groups like this are saying. We want you to hear that we would like for other Christian voices to be consulted, even conservative Christian voices, but just not those associated with what is clearly a hate group, because it's killing us, and it's killing our kids."
Bishop Robinson made no mention of the millions of deaths caused by high risk behavior leading to AIDS in the homosexual community, nor did he mention scripture in his attack against the FRC.
It is unclear if MSNBC will use the petition to censor another conservative voice from its network. Earlier this week, it fired Patrick Buchanan in response to complaints from gays and liberals for comments he made in his book "Suicide of a Superpower". See Chick's THE TRIAL.
The petition demands the network stop inviting frequent guest, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council (FRC), on the air.
According to its website, FRC seeks to "advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and public opinion." The non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. was labeled as a hate group by the left wing activist group, Southern Poverty Law Center. They claim the FRC makes "false claims about the LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science." The Southern Poverty Law Center also said that FRC's intention was to "denigrate LGBT people in its battles against same-sex marriage, hate crimes laws, anti-bullying programs and the repeal of the military’s 'Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell' policy." The Southern Poverty Law Center routinely lists conservative groups who offend liberals as hate groups, but they do not paint liberal groups which also engage in inflammatory rhetoric with the same brush.
A group of demonstrators gathered outside MSNBC headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Tuesday to present the 20,000 signatures to network representatives. Bishop Robinson said, "We've got teenagers killing themselves because of what groups like this are saying. We want you to hear that we would like for other Christian voices to be consulted, even conservative Christian voices, but just not those associated with what is clearly a hate group, because it's killing us, and it's killing our kids."
Bishop Robinson made no mention of the millions of deaths caused by high risk behavior leading to AIDS in the homosexual community, nor did he mention scripture in his attack against the FRC.
It is unclear if MSNBC will use the petition to censor another conservative voice from its network. Earlier this week, it fired Patrick Buchanan in response to complaints from gays and liberals for comments he made in his book "Suicide of a Superpower". See Chick's THE TRIAL.
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