Hate Club

Did Tony Perkins just miss an opportunity to blame gay people for something? Check out what the President of the Family Research Council said about the LGBT activist who shot a security guard at-wait, huh? A who shot a wha?

Parallel universe? That was my first thought, but alas no.
Nor was it opposite day. This happened for real. 

Above: surprisingly not Floyd Lee Corkins II

Yeah, you read that right, a gay rights activist shot and seriously wounded Leonardo Johnson, a security guard at FRC headquarters in Washington. The assailant, Floyd Lee Corkins II (whose name pretty much guarantees you'd be reading about him in the paper one day) apparently thought that anti-gay groups didn't have enough material for their mailings and so strolled up to the FRC's HQ and opened fire. Man, remember the good old days when we could refer to those gun-toting, right wing nut jobs? Yeah, so much for that. Thanks Floyd. 

"Damn you Perkins and your defense
of the family, which we yearn to destroy!"

-Gay people  

So anyway, back to Tony Perkins. He said this:

"I believe he was given a license to do that by groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center who...labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and we stand for traditional, Orthodox Christianity." 

-Tony Perkins, defending and standing for stuff

The nerve! I mean, yes, sure, the Family Research Council's sole purpose is to express a hatred for gay people, but a hate group? That's just unfair. They're more of a hate club.

They're kind of like the Breakfast Club, except instead
of going on a journey of self-discovery, the FRC just gets
together and talks about how much they hate gay people.

Face it Tony, without
gayness, you're nothing.

But what I don't get is why Tony Perkins doesn't take the next logical step and blame the shooting directly on gay people. Let me draw a line for you: first, gay people had the audacity to exist which forced Tony Perkins to build an entire organization around blaming gay people for everything that's wrong in his own life which in turn caused the Southern Poverty Law Center to call him on his bullshit and label the FRC a hate group and that's why a lunatic with 50 rounds and a bag full of Chick fil-A shot an innocent security guard. See? If gay people would just stop being so gay, then nobody would have gotten hurt. Of course the irony here is that without the gay people he hates so much, Tony Perkins would have no career. 

Instead he'd have find some other arbitrary bronze-age, Biblical prohibition to harp on, and let's face it, getting worked up about shellfish and false idols is not going to get you on Fox News. For that you need hot Takei sex.

Yes, I'm probably a terrible person for even suggesting this but
can you seriously look at this man's face and tell me that the
shooting and subsequent media attention didn't totally make his day?