Dobbs and guest Tony Perkins claim Kevin Jennings "promoted homosexuality" and "openly expressed a hostility toward organized religions"

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- by RoninNY (September 25, 2009 1:46 am ET)
  
  This is a part of Fox and Beck's recruitment of followers to dig up any dirt they can find or make up about any of Obama's so-called czars. Of course it's the right wing media, with the mainstream echoing the lazy habit of calling appointees 'czars'. Perkins, with the help of Fox and Dobbs, gets to beat the drum of 'homosexual recruitment.' That because someone is gay or even just gay tolerant, they want to turn all our kids gay! Like it's a club or army! Note that Perkin's evidence that Jennings is a danger is a statement by Jennings that they they should stop being afraid of the extreme right. What's wrong with that? Is it dangerous to think you should not live in fear of some radical nutjob who loves to pass judgment on his fellow man? In his statement, he did not say he hate's people who are religious, but Perkins twists it to sound like he did.
  
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- by dwendt44 (September 25, 2009 1:49 am ET)
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  Proves that any nut case can get on the radio.
  
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- by wolf kotenberg (September 25, 2009 5:15 am ET)
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  There is a group of churches, today in the 21st century, that are in the process of promoting homosexuality in to the mainstream church dogma and allowing priests to marry gay couples and gays becoming men (or women )of the cloth. And I might add, quite successfully. I predict Tony Perkins gonna lose ans soon.
  
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- by christopher howard (September 25, 2009 7:03 am ET)
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  Tony Perkins calling someone "bizarre"?
  
  On the drug use, Bush has acknowledged his as well. That Perkins would think that past drug use should disqualify someone from public service is years out of date.
  
  Perkins' specific charge about Jennings' hostility toward religion is that he said "eff the religious right." Guess what, a lot of religious people agree with that sentiment. Are they anti-religious?
  
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  - by Easy to refute wingnuts (September 25, 2009 7:56 am ET)
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    No, they're anti-hypocrite.
    
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- by captfoster2 (September 25, 2009 8:00 am ET)
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  Dobbs and guest Tony Perkins claim Kevin Jennings "promoted homosexuality" and "openly expressed a hostility toward organized religions"
  
  Lets say for the sake of argument that this is true...
  
  1) SO WHAT! Organized religion IS dangerous. Being religious or having faith is not. Being gay is not dangerous, but being in the closet and letting it turn you into a lying freaked out lunatic... IS
  
  2) Other than the closeted homosexual right-wingers... who the hell would care?
  
  3) SO WHAT! Organized religion IS dangerous. Being religious or having faith is not. Being gay is not dangerous, but being in the closet and letting it turn you into a lying freaked out lunatic... IS
  
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  - by jjamele2880 (September 25, 2009 10:13 am ET)
    
    You beat me to it. It irritates me to no end when "News" providers and politicians rush to defend "faith" and some GOP-approved version of "Family Values" when dealing with issues like this, as if they are part of the Constitution or something.
    
    And 37 years after Roe v. Wade, we have Democrats and Republicans scrambling to remind us that this program or that program DOES NOT INCLUDE FUNDING FOR ABORTIONS, WE SWEAR! Ugh.
    
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- by magnolialover (September 25, 2009 8:02 am ET)
  
  If by promoting, you mean, teaching folks that being a homosexual is OK, and that they shouldn't be treated badly just because of who they are, then yes, Mr. Jennings promoted homosexuality.
  
  And if he was hostile towards religion, what does that have to do with being part of the department of education? Nothing, nothing at all, since religion does not play a part in our public educational system.
  
  Tony Perkins is just mad that with Bush out of the White House, he no longer gets to advise the President with his narrow minded viewpoints.
  
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  - by epkklk851 (September 25, 2009 9:27 am ET)
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    Not to mention the fact that the Constitution has a strict prohibition against ANY religious test (Article VI) to hold office in the United States. We are free to practice our religion and we are free to be non-practicing or even anti-religion in this country, that is what the First Amendment is all about.
    
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- by bintx (September 25, 2009 8:55 am ET)
  
  As a Christian, I find Tony Perkins to represent NONE of Christ's teachings. He makes me sick.
  
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  - by kfraz43 (September 25, 2009 10:49 am ET)
    
    That's usually the case, though bintx... The so-called "leaders" of evangelical religious groups are so far detached from the spiritual core of their followers that they are simply lobbyists. Whether it's lobbying a political party or their own parishioners, it's all about money and influence - ego dominates over spirituality.
    
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    - by bintx (September 25, 2009 1:04 pm ET)
      
      I'm not a follower of any of those so-called "religious leaders."
      
      Christ would be appalled at the things being claimed by these folks in His name. Christ taught love and acceptance for ALL people, even one's enemies. These people teach hatred and exclusion.
      
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      - by kfraz43 (September 25, 2009 1:51 pm ET)
        
        Agree - but even worse, they teach hatred and exclusion in the name of their religion.
        
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  - by John Paradox (September 25, 2009 7:17 pm ET)
    
    One giveaway on the fact that these 'christians' (Xians) are not followers of Jesus is that they never quote him. If you go through various attacks that they support, you will find the quotes are either from the Old Testament or Saul's ("St." Paul) letters (AKA "Epistles").
    The term I use is "Pauline Yahwhists" for them, since they seem to follow the OT God YHWH (sent bears to kill forty-two children who made fun of His spokesman being bald) or Saul, who seems to me to have done a very good job of changing a Jewish Sect into a 'New Religion'. (And, I suspect, working as an 'undercover agent' to try and destroy the following Jesus obtained during his life).
    
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- by dman78 (September 25, 2009 9:14 am ET)
  
  Call me crazy but maybe the point is to promote tolerance and stop violence and hatred directed at students that may be gay. But yeah he probably just wants to recruit children to become homosexuals, that makes sense. Be afraid be very afraid.
  
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- by jfkisgr8 (September 25, 2009 10:53 am ET)
  
  Faith is a dangerous thing. Faith is the absence of facts. If you believe (i.e. have faith) in Milton Friedman's economic theory, you willingly ignore the catastrophic results of these policies. If you believe (i.e. have faith) that global warming is a hoax and the world won't end until the Lord says so, you are willingly ignoring scientific facts. Faith in a Sky Fairy should not given any more respect than someone who believes that clapping their hands together and chanting for the favorite wrestler locked in a sleeper hold, is actually helping him get out of it. It's childish and should be ridiculed in every corner of the world. Faith is dangerous.
  
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- by nesa2000 (September 27, 2009 3:13 am ET)
  
  The hysteria these folks incite, the fear they monger is the real danger. By appealing to the lowest common denominator and by preying on fundamental anxieties they manage to get what they want: more controversy and higher ratings. While I believe in free speech, I don't think that just anyone should have unfettered access to airwaves.
  
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