These folks are so concerned with demonizing homosexuality that the victims of anti-gay persecution are merely an afterthought to them.

The Family Research Council is the organization that recently awarded Congressman Joe Walsh an award for supposedly fighting for “family values” even though Walsh owes over $100,000 in child support. Walsh’s statement accepting the award takes today’s hypocrisy award.

Mike Huckabee thinks groups that urge boycotts of companies that fund anti-LGBT organizations are engaged in un-American economic terrorism. By that definition there are lots of economic terrorists out there . . . on the right.

Leaders of SPLC-designated hate groups rushed to defend leading presidential contender Michele Bachmann’s business, her husband Marcus’s clinic, from widespread publicity about their ex-gay “ministry and counseling.”

Tony Perkins is not genuine himself. Tony Perkins lies. Tony Perkins hates. Why does CNN provide him op-ed space to blather about Values nowadays, as if his opinion is important and valuable to GOP primary voters?

Here’s the Family Research Council’s Imam Tony Perkins, writing a piece about what social conservatives are looking for in the GOP’s 2012 nominee.

It’s a shocking historical juxtaposition. The pro-democracy movement known as the Arab Spring is in significant part a consequence of rising literacy and declining birth rates in the Mideast. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Right is mounting a direct assault on education and a renewed war on contraception. This ought to tell us something.

Nothing is more delicious than the sweet, sweet taste of right-wing bitterness. And in the wake of yesterday’s historic civil rights victory for gays, the reaction across wingnuttia has been tasty to watch.

Courtrooms, especially those of the appellate level, should be places where constitutions, both state and federal, reign supreme and the rights of all citizens are respected and protected without regard to the vagaries and whims of interst groups and fundamentalist bigots of any striping. The wild success of the conservative effort to remove the Iowa Judges signals a disturbing trend in the wrong direction.

The RNC is . . . bound . . . by its own unattainable perception of morality. HA!