Family Research Council (FRC) President
Tony Perkins has responded to gay activist Dan Savage's criticisms.
During an address at Winona State
University, Savage, the editor of Seattle alternative The Stranger
and a co-founder of the It Gets Better Project, denounced Perkins,
saying that “every dead gay kid is a victory for the Family
Research Council.”
Perkins “sits on a pile of dead kids
every day when he goes to work – and he calls himself a Christian”
and “tells the parents of queer kids to do what Tony Perkins damn
well knows drives those kids to suicide – doubles their already
quadruple risk of suicide.”
In an appearance on Mike Huckabee's
radio show, Perkins suggested that the FRC is considering taking
legal action against Savage.
“As my teenagers would say, he has
some issues,” Perkins said. “He is a man with some real
deep-seated issues ... and Dan Savage is nowhere near, he's a hundred
and eighty degrees from the positions that we have taken. It's wrong
and I will tell you this, we are pursuing everything possible to deal
with him because he is out of control.”
“This is the bottom line, Mike: is
that if you don't embrace and celebrate homosexuality and everything
associated with it, then you are intolerant,” he
later added. “And the truth of the matter is, let's just be
very, very truthful, and that's what we deal in is the truth, that
even if society embraced homosexuality, there would never be that
sense of self-fulfillment because it's outside the way God created
man and woman. And that's the bottom line. They cannot erase that,
even if they get every law on the books changed, it will never change
that.”