FRC Action is the GÇ£Legislative Action ArmGÇ¥ of the Family Research Council. The President of FRC Action is Tony Perkins Max Blumenthal, writing in The Nation, says that in 1996 Perkins paid former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke $82,000 for his mailing list at a time when Perkins was the campaign manager for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Louisiana. http://www.thenation...
The Nation article says the Federal Election Commission fined the campaign Perkins ran $3,000 for attempting to hide the transaction.
Blumenthal also writes that Perkins spoke at the Louisiana chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens in 2001. HereGÇÖs a comment on the CCC speech from Americans United for Separation of Church and State:
In July, Perkins was asked about his speech to the CCC by a Canadian newspaper. He bristled, GÇ£Never spoke to them again. That was over a decade ago.GÇ¥It wasnGÇÖt GÇ£over a decade ago.GÇ¥ The speech took place in 2001. And it doesnGÇÖt matter that Perkins only did it once. Once is bad enough. As a Southerner, Perkins certainly knew what the CCC was all about. He should have declined the invitation.
Some other scheduled speakers include those listed below, which I follow with some of their more interesting statements on religion, discrimination, ethnicity, minorities and related topics.
WILLIAM J. BENNETT:But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could GÇö if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down. That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. http://en.wikipedia....
KATHERINE HARRIS:In an interview with the Florida Baptist Witness on August 24, 2006, Harris stated that if Baptist voters do not elect Christians, then they would be endorsing the legislation of sin. GÇ£But the real issue is why should Baptists care, why should people care? If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. They can legislate sin. They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other nations because people look to our country as one nation as under God and whenever we legislate sin and we say abortion is permissible and we say gay unions are permissible, then average citizens who are not Christians, because they don't know better, we are leading them astray and it's wrong.GÇ¥
Harris also described the separation of church and state as a "lie we have been told" to keep religious people out of politics, and stated that "God is the one who chooses our rulers." http://en.wikipedia....
DON WILDMON:Don Wildmon heads the American Family Association. http://www.afa.net/
According to Media Matters for America, the AFA Journal has long served as a platform for anti-Semitic theories and innuendo. http://mediamatters.... For instance, Wildmon warned of Jewish control over popular culture, an old anti-Semitic canard, in a January 1989 article, "What Hollywood Believes and Wants." "The television elite are highly secular," Wildmon wrote. "The majority (59 percent) in the Jewish faith." In a separate article in the same issue, titled "Anti-Semitism Called a Serious Problem," Wildmon, a longtime opponent of gay rights, pointedly remarked that "Jews favor homosexual rights more than other Americans." Media Matters says that GÇ£Wildmon has been denounced by Jewish organizations including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Congress.GÇ¥
ANNE COULTERGÇó [on Muslims] "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
GÇó "When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against absolutely insane savages." [4]; August 16, 2004.
GÇó "I think we had enough laws about the turn-of-the-century. We don't need any more." Asked how far back in time would she go to repeal laws: "Well, before the New Deal." Asked if she was talking about the Emancipation Proclamation: "That would be a good start." http://en.wikiquote....
GÇó "Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president." http://en.wikiquote....
GÇó "Which brings me to this week's scandal about No Such Agency spying on 'Americans.' I have difficulty ginning up much interest in this story inasmuch as I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle East, and sending liberals to Guantanamo." Live and Let Spy; December 21, 2005
GÇó "I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote."
Fox News; Hannity & Colmes; August 17, 1997.GÇó "I think [women] should be armed but should not vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it...it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care." Comedy Central; Politically Incorrect; February 26, 2001.
GÇó "It would be a much better country if women did not vote. That is simply a fact. In fact, in every presidential election since 1950 - except Goldwater in '64 - the Republican would have won, if only the men had voted."
GÇó "The Episcopals (sic) don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages -- it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments -- or "Moses' talking points" -- but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone." The Jesus Thing; January 7, 2004. http://en.wikiquote....
GÇó [war on terror] "This is a religious war, not against Islam but for Christianity, for a Christian nation. When this nation was founded, there was nothing like it. Our founders said there is a God and we are all equal before God. The ideal of equality and tolerance is like nothing that has ever existed in the world before. That, too, is a Christian value.GÇ¥ http://www.thenation...
GÇó GÇ£I think airlines ought to start advertising: 'We have the most civil rights lawsuits brought against us by Arabs.GÇÖGÇ¥ http://en.wikipedia....
WELLINGTON BOONE:Boone is a member of the Coalition on Revival, a Christian Reconstructionist organization that advocates replacing the US Constitution with biblical law. http://www.reformati... (see esp. p. 6) http://www.reformati... lists Boone on the CoalitionGÇÖs steering committee, along with another FRC Action speaker Ted Baehr, and George AllenGÇÖs one-time Lieutenant Governor running mate Michael Farris.
JERRY FALWELL:GÇó After the September 11, 2001 attacks Falwell said on the 700 Club, "I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen."
GÇó "AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals." AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals."
GÇó "I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them."
GÇó "The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country." (Sermon, July 4, 1976) http://en.wikiquote....
DON FEDER:GÇó When liberals canGÇÖt use their convenient misinterpretation of the First Amendment (reading church-state separation into the Establishment Clause), their fall-back position is multiculturalism, inclusiveness and sensitivity. Little Omar will feel excluded by trees with tinsel. Myron may fear the onset of another crusade if he hears the strains of GÇ£OGÇÖ Little Town of BethlehemGÇ¥ drifting through the hallways. But this hyper-sensitivity to religious minorities requires gross insensitivity to AmericaGÇÖs majority religion. You know, the one that begins with a GÇ£C.GÇ¥ Since at least 9 out of 10 taxpayers are Christians, they foot the bill for a public education system on a search-and-destroy mission against even the mildest expressions of their holidays. http://www.donfeder....
GÇó Many and varied are Muslim contributions to American society, like the holy warriors who recently set off a series of small explosions outside the British consulate in New York City. ** *If overpopulation was a problem in the U.S., more American Muslims would be the solution. But there I go again, being hateful and hurtful. * * * There are Muslims who have reinterpreted their religion to make it compatible with things like majority rule and human rights (not to mention indoor-plumbing). But such concepts are alien to Islam. http://www.donfeder....