Tony Perkins was the name of the actor in Psycho, who was also gay, although claimed to be cured, and then died from AIDS complications. Okay, it's not exactly funny, but seems like these useless closet cast bigots have ties to us evil people.

Will Tony Perkins be teabagging on the 15th?

I'm seriously disappointed. I was really hoping a group of them would break into my house and redecorate it, kidnap me and teach me how to dress in style, or hold my wife down and cut and color her hair for her. Something. The anticipation is killing me!

Perkins of the world need to be called out on the lies and bs more often. We need to be reassured that this is happening and the American media needs to actually do their job that they were supposed to do.
But how do you stop corporate media?
If The Republicans have Fox and say they need another outlet for misinformation, Who's to stop them?
Can this administration reverse those pro-conglomerate laws or is it too late?

Unfortunately, Perkins may be right as far as his argument goes:

http://www.americanreligionsurvey-aris.org/

"There is a real and growing theological polarization in American society," according to scholars at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who have just published the American Religious Identification Survey 2008 (ARIS), a large, respected study that was previously conducted in 1990 and 2001.

Most of the growth in the Christian population occurred among those who would identify only as "Christian," "Evangelical/Born Again," or "non-denominational Christian." The last of these, associated with the growth of megachurches, has increased from less than 200,000 in 1990 to 2.5 million in 2001 to over 8 million today. These groups grew from 5 percent of the population in 1990 to 8.5 percent in 2001 to 11.8 percent in 2008. Significantly, 38.6 percent of mainline Protestants now also identify themselves as evangelical or born again.

"It looks like the two-party system of American Protestantism--mainline versus evangelical--is collapsing," said Mark Silk, director of the Public Values Program. "A generic form of evangelicalism is emerging as the normative form of non-Catholic Christianity in the United States."

Now the good news:

Overall, the country is becoming less Christian. The 1990 ARIS study found that 86.2 percent of the population described itself as Christian, a slice that shrank to 76 percent in 2008. Catholic, Baptist and "mainline" Christian faiths (e.g., Methodist, Lutheran and Episcopalian) populations declined, as did those who described themselves as Christian without a particular denomination. But there were more people who described themselves as evangelical or born again and in Pentecostal denominations. Now, 49 percent of all Christians describe themselves as "born again."

So traditional Christian denominations declined while the nontraditional and unaffiliated Christian population grew.

One other cohort grew: the "nones."

"Nones" either are atheists, agnostics or people who simply say they have no religion. They made up 15 percent of the 2008 population, up dramatically from 8.2 percent in 1990.

So this country is following the world-wide trend towards entrenched fundamentalism in all its forms, "believers" and non-believers alike.

Was America EVER Christian nation?

eh, Mr Perkins?

"White: The Bible says nothing about homosexuality Tony, and it's really important to quit confusing people"

Like it or not, agree or not, The Bible clearly says that homosexuality is an abomination to God.

Perkins has trolled more than a few mens rooms looking for gay sex or at a minimum, he has gay porn in his sock drawer. I'm a straight man, but my gaydar is going WHOOP, WHOOP, WHOOP RED ALERT!!!!

Or mebbe Baton Rouge, if JingleBobby moves on...

"I'm married" is proof you are not gay. Unless gays can get married.

Once that happens, you can't prove you aren't gay by being married.

(You can't anyway, but in their minds it is cover, like a dog hiding behind a barstool)

Good for Rev. White -- he said what needed to be said and Tony Perkins made an ass out of himself - as usual.
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Why are people's civil liberties effected by anyones nurological disorder? Just because Perkins is delusional (and lots of other people suffer from the same delusions) why should that shape public policy? The religious people in this world need to put thier BS in check - It should be personal - so please - keep it to yourself!

...to put this mysticism into an objective perspective for the more rational types?

No. He's quite right. The Bible says nothing about homosexuality.

Leviticus calls one act, male-to-male anal sex, a "to'evah" or an abomination. The two passages don't mention two men kissing or doing other sexual activities, and it doesn't mention women at all. Jewish commentary over the centuries is pretty clear that male anal sex is forbidden if you choose to observe Mosaic Law. Male anal rape was considered a form of humiliation in the Middle East and often used on captured enemies. In any case, it's perfectly possible to be a male homosexual, be in a relationship and not have anal sex.

Romans 1:23-27 draws a cause-and-effect relationship with pagan idolatry and out of control lusts who then descend into murder and other vices. In verse 23, St. Paul describes what the pagan gods look like and then says "Therefore" and "Because of this" these idolaters committed "unnatural" lusts (not love). It basically says that worshipping idols drove people to act in crazy ways. When you read about some of the practises of Roman paganism (including the cutting off of genitalia and cross dressing found in the Cybele-Attis cult) he may have a point. In any case, Romans 1 is descriptive, not proscriptive.

And 1 Corinthians 6:9 is a problematic passage in that it uses a hard to define Greek word: arsenokoitai, which literally means "man-f*ck" (koitai being the root word of coitus. For most of Christian history, it was used to condemn masturbation. In Martin Luther's New Testament translation he paired it with the previous word on the "sin" list "malakoi" which literally means "soft" but was slang for boy prostitutes and then defined "arsenokoitai" as "child molesters". Only in the 20th Century did translations render "arsenokoitai" as homosexuals or homosexual offenders. But in cultural context, same sex relations in ancient Greece were paedophillic, with an older man mentoring a young boy in exchange for sex.

So Mel is correct. The Bible doesn't really address "homosexuality". It addresses one homosexual act and different forms of prostitution and idolatry.

People ae leaving these sick hateful fundamental bigoted churches that Perkins represents for more liberal and open an excepting churches and that is the real truth. Perkins is still a hate monguering, money grubbing, fake religious man and the world is waking up to their dividing intolerance.

.. that an author here would find it acceptable to put words into Perkins' mouth and assume certain meanings that are not ther.

And with all the presumed hate by Perkins, I wonder if all the hate being expressed toward evangelicals and fundamentalists is worthy of a similar response?

Unless, of course, C&L finds some hate acceptable.

What gets me is that so many people in the religious word are gay. I work on many political campaigns for years, and there were many pastors leading a double-life(and there still are many).
Perkin is satanic in his demenor, all the while attemping to dress-up his venom with a smile.

The Rev. White was recently eliminated, with his gay son, on "the Amazing Race".

They represented gays terrifically on the show and the Rev Mel has just kicked it up a notch.

Nice to see some real courage displayed by a "man of the cloth".

I wonder if the bible is the first fantasy book ever written?