Frank Rich takes on Justice Sunday. He told me something I didn't know, too.
Tonight's megachurch setting and pseudoreligious accouterments notwithstanding, the actual organizer of "Justice Sunday" isn't a clergyman at all but a former state legislator and candidate for insurance commissioner in Louisiana, Tony Perkins. He now runs the Family Research Council, a Washington propaganda machine devoted to debunking "myths" like "People are born gay" and "Homosexuals are no more likely to molest children than heterosexuals are." It will give you an idea of the level of Mr. Perkins's hysteria that, as reported by The American Prospect, he told a gathering in Washington this month that the judiciary poses "a greater threat to representative government" than "terrorist groups." And we all know the punishment for terrorists.
Somehow I'd gotten the idea that Perkins was a churchman. A loony one, but nonetheless a man of the cloth. Of course, this event does have James Dobson of Focus on the Family, noted bedeviler of Spongebob. Take that, Frank Rich!
Wait. Dobson is a child psychologist. He's not a clergyman either. Yo, religious folk! Have these two the right, the biblical knowledge, or the background to speak for you?
Posted by Linkmeister at April 23, 2005 10:10 PM