The
number of fatalities resulting from the demonizing of people like Tony Perkins
and the Family Research Council is impossible to calculate: to count the number
of pulpits, televangelists, hate groups and hell houses that have caused people
to be kicked out of their homes while they were sick and dying, that have
caused adult and teen suicides, that have caused people to be bashed and
killed, is incalculable. It is unknowable, because the nature of demonizing is
too insidious to calculate.
And
this is what Tony Perkins and his ilk count on: without direct cause and
effect, the Family Research Council will continue to going skipping merrily
down Unaccountable Lane.
*
Wikipedia: " In August, 2012, AFA Director
of Issue Analysis Bryan Fischer compared the children of gay parents to slaves,
tweeting that "we need an Underground Railroad to deliver innocent
children from same-sex households".
** This was several years after the CDC determined that
AIDS was not transmitted through casual contact.
***Both Lou Sheldon and the Traditional Values Coalition were
later embroiled in the Jack Abramoff scandal.
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