Word: perkinses
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Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), a conservative lobbying group, and Hadley P. Arkes, Ney professor of American institutes at Amherst College, told a standing-room-only crowd in Austin Hall that allowing gay marriages would weaken social institutions.
“The courts are saying to the legislature and to the public, ‘We are going to impose this policy upon you,’” Perkins said. “The courts [are] usurping the legislative process where public policy is shaped by...
Perkins and Arkes also contended that there was “no historical evidence of discrimination” against homosexuals, and comparisons to African-Americans as a persecuted minority were inaccurate.
“The homosexual community is hijacking the bus and forcing African Americans to get in the back of the bus,” Perkins said, later adding that homosexuals “are better off economically and more educated than heterosexual couples.”
At this point, the director of the Asia Center, Dwight Perkins, ran to the microphone telling me my behavior was not allowed and asking me to sit down. While the women sitting next to me ripped the flag out of my hand and almost tore my shirt off, and while...