Earlier today we noted how Grover Norquist is continuing to come under attack from Religious Right leaders for having signed on to serve on the board of GOProud, the conservative gay organization.
While Norquist has yet to fight back, GOProud is not being so cautious, blasting the Family Research Council as a bunch of phony conservatives and calling them (and Mike Huckabee) “dinosaurs headed to political extinction“:
Today, GOProud, the only national organization of gay conservatives and their allies, responded to attacks from the anti-gay Family Research Council. “Over the last week, the Family Research Council has shown its true colors – attacking GOProud for working with the National Rifle Association and Gun Owners of America to protect 2nd Amendment rights, attacking GOProud for supporting cutting taxes on American families, and for supporting the free market healthcare reform proposal offered by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK),” said Jimmy LaSalvia, Executive Director. “These attacks make it clear the Family Research Council doesn’t care one iota about the conservative agenda.”
GOProud isn’t the only organization that has come under fire from Tony Perkins and company. In March, Perkins attacked tea party organizations, Freedom Works, and the Contract from America. Perkins’ attacks followed former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s criticism of the Conservative Political Action Conference, an event GOProud sponsored. “We wear attacks from Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council as badges of honor,” said Christopher Barron, Chairman of GOProud’s Board. “The rise of the new right and the tea party movement in this country is a total reputation of their ‘big government conservatism.”
“Tony Perkins and his cronies at the Family Research Council aren’t for limited government,” continued Barron. “They support policies, like the federalization of marriage and family laws, which would represent one of the greatest usurpation of state’s rights in the history of this country.”
“Tony Perkins referred to GOProud’s opposition to the death tax and Obamacare as ‘radical’ and has singled out our organization’s support for urban economic empowerment zones first championed by conservative icon Jack Kemp,” said LaSalvia. “Maybe Tony Perkins could explain to conservatives everywhere exactly what is so radical about supporting these conservative policies?”
“Big government conservatives like Tony Perkins and Mike Huckabee are dinosaurs, headed to political extinction. The truth is that the conservative movement has moved on, and has done so without them,” concluded LaSalvia.
