Republican Party Spokesperson Welcomes Pride Month. Christian Right is Incensed

 


An official of the Republican Party lauded the Pride Month of June and bragged LGBT membership in the Party has grown. The leader of the Family Research Council is REALLY angry. For the Republican Party to endorse sin is a travesty Tony Perkins says.

Perkins, who complains about the "cancel culture" wants Pride Week to be cancelled. Nothing makes him madder than people doing what he disapproves of. 

The old wink wink deal between lower corporation tax lobbyists and anti abortion and anti gay Christians is showing some stress that was predictable from day one. Corporations need employees and customers. A few decades ago they thought they would lose neither by getting cozy with right wing Christians on homosexuality and anti abortion. In exchange they would get fewer regulations and lower taxes. Now corporations need gays and women more than they need evangelicals. Hence, the Party endorsed Gay Pride Month and got unloaded on by pious Tony Perkins. 

Perkins wrote in his tweet, But one place conservatives thought they were safe from all this nonsense was the Republican National Committee. Turns out, their chairwoman is just as happy as anyone to pull on the LGBT jersey.

Perkins went on to complain about seeing rainbow flags in malls and on advertising. Just at the time when we're making some progress in state legislatures stopping all this equality she does the opposite, he said. He call the celebration of Pride something promoted by "extremists. 

Perkins seems like the Old Testament God. The meaner and nastier the faith is the more holy it is. Perkins would have cheered watching God drown children as the Ark floated by. Sinners, after all, have it coming.

Perkins would do well to attend a gay pride in some community. The ones I've been in or watched have a surprising cross section of the community endorsing by participating. Would you call the local ambulance company, several liberal churches, city parks and recreation departments, etc., extremists? I've not seen a parade entry by local Republicans but I'll bet that is coming. 

Unfortunately for Perkins, he has burned his bridges. The Republican Party know they can make him spittin' mad and he will still support its candidates and raise Republican money. He is an example of someone who got rolled by politics because he did not know how it works. By not leaving an exit door he is now the servant, not the served.

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