President of Anti-Gay Hate Group Appointed to Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission
President of Anti-Gay Hate Group Appointed to Louisiana Law Enforcement Commission
By Mark Joseph Stern
Tony Perkins has worn many hats throughout his life: television reporter, police officer, Louisiana state representative, head of a certified hate group. But the president of the viciously homophobic Family Research Council earned a new title this week when Gov. Bobby Jindal appointed him to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, which awards grants, trains officers, and regulates law enforcement throughout the state.
Given that homosexuality remains criminalized in Louisiana and that gay men are still arrested simply for having sex—in direct violation of the U.S. Supreme Court—one might think that things couldn’t get any worse for Louisiana’s LGBT population. (And don’t even think about same-sex marriage.) But Perkins’ tenure on the commission may well drag the state to new, even darker depths of anti-gay enmity. Perkins’ brand of homophobia has an almost retro tinge of hysteria to it—and he’ll now have a chance to inflict it on the entire state’s law enforcement officers.
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