After linking the Secret Service prostitution scandal to the end of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins is doubling down on his anti-gay attacks by now launching a tirade against a student club at Norwich University in Vermont for organizing a Pride Week. A group of LGBT students and straight allies is planning to host “seminars on bullying, safe sex and HIV testing and discussions with veterans” along with a queer prom that will include speeches from Gov. Peter Shumlin and US Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan. Student organizer Joshua Fontanez said that the week is meant to help create “a community here who will embrace you and love you and support you” in an interview with WCAX, whose news van was tagged with the word “Fags” while parked on campus.
Perkins, however, claimed in a radio message today that the Pride Week was all about the desire to throw a “party” for “a community that thinks promiscuity is something to celebrate.” Perkins also said that the Obama administration is “banning Christian speakers at military academies,” presumably referring to Jerry Boykin who decided to withdraw from a speaking engagement at West Point after his extremist anti-Muslim statements came to light.
Perkins: When students at Norwich University crowed their prom queen, something was missing. That something was a girl. Hello, I’m Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. America’s oldest private military academy says it prides itself on being unconventional–and last month’s “gay prom” proved it. School officials said they wanted to have an “open dialogue” on homosexuality–but what they really had was a party. Unfortunately, this is America’s new military. When the President wanted to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” he didn’t talk about flying rainbow flags at Afghan bases or asking chaplains to perform gay “weddings.” He didn’t mention banning Christian speakers at military academies, tearing down crosses at Camp Pendleton, or pulling Scripture out of Army curriculum. What he said was it’s time to let homosexuals be true to who they are. And who they are is a community that thinks promiscuity is something to celebrate. Norwich’s “free love dance” and “condom Olympics” aren’t tolerance. They’re deviance. And a school of young, strong cadets deserve better.
