Tony Perkins, president of the
Christian conservative Family Research Council (FRC) and possible
Senate candidate, claims gay marriage “perverts the word love.”
On Wednesday's edition of Washington
Watch, Perkins was joined by Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas
Values.
Saenz described growing support for
marriage equality as a myth.
“There is this notion that things
have changed so much, there's all this momentum from the media
suggesting that people's views have changed on homosexual marriage,”
Saenz said. “But we're not seeing that at the polls.”
Writing at RightWingWatch.com,
Brian Tashman noted that “polling consistently shows that a
majority of Americans and an overwhelming number of young people
favor legalizing marriage for same-sex couples. In the 2012
election, a plurality of voters agreed same-sex marriage should be
legal in their state and marriage equality opponents lost in all four
states where voters faced ballot measures on the issue.”
Perkins added that legalizing such
unions not only “destroy[s] the definition of marriage, it perverts
the word love.”
“It becomes nothing more than a
sexual act or a physical act of intimacy,” Perkins said. “Because
you could say two brothers love each other, two sisters love each
other, and aunt and uncle love each other, different folks that may
not be able to be married could love each other. So if you change
this definition, what's to keep them from entering into some kind of
contractual relationship as well? It's absurd.”