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"Advocates of same-sex 'marriage' would have you believe that a majority of Americans are now ready to throw man-woman marriage and mother-father households on the ash heap of history. Don't believe it. Like the voters in 31 out of 31 states that have voted on the issue, this new poll makes clear that a solid majority of Americans still believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman. I hope the members of the New York State Senate will consider this before they make a foolish decision to redefine our most fundamental social institution." - Family Research Council spokesdouche Peter Sprigg.

NOTE: This new poll Sprigg refers to? It was paid for by the anti-gay Nazis at the Alliance Defense Fund.

Our hard-working video clipper Dave Evans has compiled the below reel of the Family Research Council proving why they deserve their hate group designation.

It took the FRC less than 48 hours to muster their GOP drones in Congress to force the Navy to rescind their new policy allowing same-sex marriages on bases in jurisdictions where it is legal.

"In any discussion of 'sexual orientation,' it is important to remember that this is only an umbrella term for three quite different things—a person’s sexual attractions, the sexual behavior, and their self-identification. In the survey upon which this study was based, there was only a single question on 'sexual orientation,' which asked 'which of the following best describes you.' The choices were 'heterosexual (straight), gay or lesbian, bisexual' or 'not sure.'

"This is essentially a measure of self-identification. Therefore, the logical take-away from the study would be this: the most effective way of reducing teen suicide attempts is not to create a 'positive social environment' for the affirmation of homosexuality. Instead, it would be to discourage teens from self-identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual." - Family Research Council bigot Peter Sprigg, in an FRC article denouncing last week's Pediatrics study on teen suicide.

According to Sprigg, gay kids wouldn't kill themselves so much if adults would just do a better job of browbeating them out of accepting their sexuality. Seriously.

In a Moonie Times article mocking Perez Hilton's plan to release a children's book, Family Research Council spokesdouche Peter Sprigg alleges that Hilton is a pedophile.

Mr. Hilton’s book, according to the publisher’s press release, is “the story of a child born with a shock of fabulous hair that sets him apart from his peers. While some find this difference hard to accept or understand, ‘The Boy With Pink Hair’ uses the opportunity to find what makes him special and share it with the world.” It would seem that Mr. Hilton, whose legal name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr., does indeed have some experience with children. “He does have a known interest in children,” says Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow for Family Policy Studies at the Family Research Council, “having published a photo of teen star Miley Cyrus that could have been considered child pornography.”

Last year Hilton tweeted out a photo of Cyrus getting out of a car, apparently without underwear. Cyrus was 17 at the time. Therefore the openly gay Hilton is clearly a heterosexual pedophile, according to Peter Sprigg. And the relentless, outrageous, compulsive lying of the anti-gay Christianist right rolls on....

(Via - Holy Bullies)

"Today’s politically correct America would have seemed like a paradise to the homosexual activists of a quarter-century ago but today’s activists have become frustrated with the pace of change. Since neither research, persuasion nor politics have been effective in implementing the full homosexual agenda, which seeks unqualified celebration and subsidization of homosexual conduct in every realm of society, some in the homosexual movement have turned to brute force, using censorship to trample on freedom of speech and freedom of religion. [snip]

Supporting the natural definition of marriage as the union of male and female (as 45 of the 50 states do) is not 'hate,' and supporting the personal freedom and autonomy of those who seek sexual orientation change 'demonizes' no one. There can be legitimate debate about these issues - but Apple, as one of the gatekeepers of today’s information technology, should be doing everything it can to facilitate that debate, not stifle it." - Family Research Council spokesbigot Peter Sprigg, once again riding the waambulance in the Moonie Times.

RELATED: For their part, the Moonie Times illustrates the above-linked story with a rainbow-colored Apple infested with worms.

The Family Research Council has posted a billboard denouncing their hate group status outside of the Montgomery, Alabama headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

(Tipped by JMG reader Andy)

Even though the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg famously called for the expulsion of all gay people from the United States, this hate group spokesdouche still gets invited onto national television. Today he sparred with Freedom To Marry's Evan Wolfson over the GOP's plan to defend DOMA. Hilariously, Sprigg claims that the main opposition to same-sex marriage isn't based on religion.

NOM's Maggie Gallagher and the Family Research Council's Peter "Export Gays" Sprigg repped the hate groups at yesterday's marriage debate before the Maryland legislature.

"Opposite-sex relationships are the only type capable of producing children through natural intercourse and the only ones assured of providing children with both a mother and a father. Affirming only opposite-sex relationships as 'marriage' thus makes perfect sense. But affirming same-sex relationships as 'marriages' makes no sense. These relationships are incapable of producing children through their sexual union.

"And while some homosexual couples do raise children (most of whom were conceived in previous heterosexual relationships), such arrangements by definition deprive a child of his or her birthright to be raised by both a biological mother and father. Maryland may choose to tolerate and even protect such unconventional childrearing by allowing adoption by homosexual partners or couples. But it has no obligation to actively affirm and celebrate (through 'marriage') the deliberate creation of permanently motherless or fatherless families." - Family Research Council spokesbigot Peter Sprigg, in an editorial published in today's Baltimore Sun.

RELATED: Today Sprigg couches his tired bigotry in the reich-wing's worn out "won't somebody PLEASE think of the children" meme, which the haters have learned plays better with the increasingly indifferent public. That wasn't the case last year when Sprigg's smarmy mask briefly slipped off in that moment when he called for the United States to criminalize homosexuality and suggested that all gay people should be "exported" out of the country.

ALSO RELATED: Why is the Baltimore Sun granting editorial space to somebody from an SPLC-certified hate group? We look forward to a Stormfront editorial denouncing Black History Month.

GLAAD has issued a call to action, asking its supporters to write CNN to demand that representatives of hate groups no longer be used to "balance" the network's stories on LGBT rights.

As a recent example, GLAAD cites the appearance of the Family Research Council's Peter Sprigg, who was invited to counter the opinion of DADT repeal activist Alex Nicholson. Among Sprigg's many detestable remarks is his call for all homosexuals to be deported from the United States.

Nicholson's qualifications were clear. As an openly gay, former Army intelligence officer, he gave firsthand accounts of how the policy played out in the day-to-day lives of gay and lesbian service members.Sprigg's qualifications, however, came exclusively from his job at the Family Research Council. There, Sprigg has worked to advance some of the most hurtful, dangerous, and demonstrably false notions about the lives of LGBT people that our country has seen in recent years. And yet, by pairing him with Nicholson in this segment, CNN told its millions of viewers that both of these men should be seen as equally valuable to this discussion.

Is it important for the media to take these groups on? Of course it is. But that's not what CNN and other media organizations are doing when it invites these groups to take part in otherwise reasonable discussions. The media is elevating their hurtful messages and attitudes to the level of rational discourse. The media is saying that people like Alexander Nicholson, who can speak to real-life experience and firsthand facts, need to be "balanced" by people like Peter Sprigg, whose claim to fame is arguing that being gay should be outlawed. If CNN wants to interview a gay person who believes being straight should be outlawed, THEN Peter Sprigg would be an acceptable "balance."

CNN and the rest of the media are doing nothing but exposing their viewers to dangerous anti-gay rhetoric when they invite members of these anti-gay groups onto their programming. Starting in 2011, this needs to stop.

Sign GLAAD's petition to CNN here.