Anti-Gay Leader Takes Up Lesbian’s Dinner Invitation

[dipsydoodle]

Tony Perkins, head of the designated anti-LGBT hate group the Family Research Council, has taken up a lesbian equality leader’s invitation to dine with her family.

Reports CNN:

Tony Perkins, who heads the Family Research Council in Washington, received the invitation after telling CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Thursday that he’d never been to the home of a married same-sex couple.

“My wife and I will be glad to respond when we receive the invitation to find a time that works,” Perkins said in a statement to CNN on Monday, referring to the invitation.

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The invitation to Perkins came from Jennifer Chrisler, the executive director of a gay rights group called Family Equality Council. Chrisler and her wife have twin 10-year-old boys, with another child on the way.

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Found this on FB. Hope its appropriate here.

[JNelson6563]

1. This is exactly what needs to happen.

It's so easy to demonize various people one disagrees with in one's own head. Such things are not so easy to maintain when you actually spend time with some who is different from you and come away realizing that they are just people like everyone else.

Here's hoping this meeting has such an effect.

Julie

[Voice for Peace]

2. +1

[Maven]

4. This is not a "disagreement" it is hate. I really wish people would stop characterizing homophobia

as a difference of opinion. Doing so only legitimizes the "point of view" held by hate leaders like Tony Perkins.

It is 2012. We are beyond the point where we should consider changing the mind of someone like Tony Perkins. He is a hate leader, pure and simple. He makes money from the deaths of young gay people. He should be shunned, politically and by the media. Instead MSNBC and CNN get away with giving him a platform because otherwise well-intentioned people help perpetuate the lie that homophobia, unlike racism, has some rational basis that we shouldn't immediately dismiss when THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE SHOULD DO.

In the words of Bill Maher, let's not be so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.

[JNelson6563]

5. You make a valid point

Certainly one side of this is irrational hatred, I'd say the other is "rational disagreement". Easy to guess which is which.

As to the other part of your post, how to deal with these hateful bigots, I disagree and, apparently, so does Jennifer Chrisler, the executive director of a gay rights group called Family Equality Council.

Julie

[Maven]

6. It will help him more than it will help us

He will be able to come away saying, "see, I don't hate these people! I shared a meal with em at their own table.". That way he can keep going on MSNBC and CNN and claiming to have a principled stand based on "faith" and not hatred.

Utterly pointless.

ETA: don't be so sure that our side merely "disagrees" either. Truth be told, I hate Tony Perkins. I don't want to understand him, I don't want to have dialogue with him, I just want him to STFU and never be heard from again. I hate him. The difference is I have a good reason to.

[JNelson6563]

7. I doubt anyone takes issue with your feelings

I can relate in that I have a few people I wouldn't spit on if they were on fire. Still, due to that I am always glad there are those with a more statesman-like approach. It always makes the haters look worse and the hated look good and gracious.

Julie

[ruggerson]

8. [phone]

Nt

[qb]

3. Wow. And Brian Brown accepted Dan Savage's dinner invitation, too!

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/05/30/492012/brian-brown-to-dine-and-debate-with-dan-savage/?mobile=nc