Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council, where he works to promote the Religious Right’s policy agenda on Capitol Hill and in state legislatures. Perkins rallies grassroots activists with a daily radio broadcast that airs on American Family Radio and attracts leading Republican politicians to the FRC’s annual Values Voter Summit. At FRC, Perkins has been a vocal opponent of LGBT rights, reproductive rights and religious liberty for Muslims.
Perkins took over the FRC in 2003 after a career in Louisiana politics. He served for two terms in the Louisiana legislature, where he gained national attention for spearheading a “covenant marriage” bill, and ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Senate in 2002.
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February 7, 2023 5:20 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: You Are a JudasFebruary 1, 2023 4:10 pm
‘We Are Babylon’: Dozens of Congress Members Participate in Anti-LGBTQ Prayer ServiceJanuary 30, 2023 5:24 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Day of CelebrationJanuary 4, 2023 2:22 pm
Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins Cites False History While Praying for the GOPDecember 14, 2022 5:06 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: No Pagans, Atheists, or JewsNovember 30, 2022 5:17 pm
Right Wing Round-Up: The QAnon GroomerNovember 30, 2022 5:15 pm
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Opinion of SheepNovember 17, 2022 4:10 pm
Old Habits Are Hard to Break: Anti-Equality Leaders’ Dishonest and Alarmist Attacks on the Respect for Marriage ActNovember 16, 2022 11:13 am
After Voters Prevent Red Wave, FRC Pushes Restrictions on VotingSeptember 27, 2022 10:52 am
How Christian Nationalism Fueled the Insurrection and Threatens Democracy