Monday, February 13, 2012

In Brief

Staff Reports
Clerics to MSNBC: Don't Give Tony Perkins Airtime
Tony Perkins via CNN
NEW York, New York -- A group of progressive clergy led by openly gay Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson are asking MSNBC to cease giving airtime to Tony Perkins, head of the antigay Family Research Council.
“FRC has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for using dishonest, incendiary rhetoric about gay and lesbian Americans. But MSNBC has continued offering a friendly venue for Perkins, neither informing their viewers of FRC’s status nor including any rebuttal from progressive religious leaders. Perkins has appeared on MSNBC more often this year than on any other cable news network.” ~ Press release from Faithful America.
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1 comments:

Desmond Rutherford said...

If he had been 'the' Tony Perkins in the movie Psycho, no one would have been murdered because they would have taken one look at him, and then run away as fast as they could.