Easy Sunday For Hate Group Leader On CNN, CBS

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/201205130004

May 13, 2012 4:26 pm ET by Jocelyn Fong

If I ever have children, I'll be able to tell them about the day in May 2012 when the President of the United States finally endorsed marriage equality. Unfortunately, I'll also be able to tell them that the leader of a hate group was given a prominent platform in the wake of the president's announcement to say on national television that same-sex marriage "runs counter to nature" and threatens "religious freedom," "the family," and "the education of our children."

In November 2010 the Southern Poverty Law Center determined that the Family Research Council (FRC) is an "anti-gay hate group" because it seeks to "defam(e) gays and lesbians" by making "false claims about the LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science." Given FRC's record of spreading bogus information, it's risky for news organizations committed to accuracy to give FRC access to their audience. Nevertheless, FRC has repeatedly been presented as a legitimate and mainstream voice by every major cable news network.

Today both CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley and CBS' Face the Nation hosted FRC president Tony Perkins to comment on same-sex marriage and presidential politics. On CNN Perkins was balanced by ... Gary Bauer, another evangelical conservative who shares Perkins' anti-LGBT views. Perkins said that denying same-sex couples the right to marry is a matter of "defending the family, the cornerstone of civilization," adding, "it's more than marriage. It's about the education of our children. It's about religious freedom. It's about public accommodations."

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1. ya its a good thing we have religious freedom is this country.

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2. They might as well have

got the grand dragon of the KKK, or what ever the head guy is called.