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After trying to blame the Southern Poverty Law Center for the deplorable shooting that occurred at the Family Research Councils office this week, FRC president Tony Perkins today also implicated the Obama administration in the shooting. While speaking with Rick Santorum today on Washington Watch Weekly about the Obama administrations attack on religious freedom, Perkins said that what we witnessed this past week at the Family Research Council is clearly linked to that same atmosphere of hostility thats created by the public policies of an administration thats indifferent or hostile to religious freedom. This shameful attempt to connect the Obama administration to the shooting is just the latest sign of the FRCs attempt to exploit the tragedy for political purposes.
Santorum: When you look at what happened with the whole Chick-fil-A incident and across the country you see government officials, mayors of large cities, wanting to use the power of the government to force, to drive out Dan Cathy and the folks at Chick-fil-A from their cities. This is really unprecedented and youre right it creates an atmosphere that when the government now is saying you folks are so evil that we can deny you access to participate in business within our city it leads to a lot of things that are going to not just constrict religious liberty but I think threaten a lot of other areas of our lives.
Perkins: Well I think as we witnessed this past week at the Family Research Council, clearly linked to that same atmosphere of hostility thats created by the public policies of an administration thats indifferent or hostile to religious freedom and groups like as I mentioned the Southern Poverty Law Center that recklessly throws around labels giving people like this gunman who came into our building a license to take innocent life.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/perkins-clear-link-shooting-obama-administration-policies
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)Look in the mirror.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)What is sickening is he calls himself a Christian when doing so. There is a lot of mean things being spread 24/7 on talk radio and then the dumb people reacts.
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... "attack on religious freedom" recently in this country - but it was by a right-wing white supremacist. I don't remember hearing a word out of Perkins or Santorum condemning that attack - or the policies and rhetoric that incited it.