Rick Perry compares “courageous” anti-LGBT equality activists to abolitionists

[DonViejo]

Perry went on to call the demand for gay equality in the Boy Scouts of America the "flavor of the month"

BY KATIE MCDONOUGH

In conversation with the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins on Sunday evening, Texas Gov. Rick Perry called gay rights the “flavor of the month” and a “pop culture” trend that would “tear apart” the Boy Scouts of America.

Perry went on to suggest that activists pressuring the Boy Scouts to maintain its discriminatory policy against gay adults are akin to the “principled leadership” of anti-slavery and anti-secession lawmakers during the Civil War:

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http://www.salon.com/2013/05/06/rick_perry_compares_courageous_anti_lgbt_equality_activists_to_abolitionists/

[Blue_Tires]

1. I've got to hand it to them....

Repubs have been getting a LOT of mileage out of that silly "today's conservative christian whites = oppressed 19th century blacks living under slavery and Jim Crow" talking point...