Disgraced Republican Whip Steve Scalise Has Ties To Another Hate Group
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Remarkably, Republican leadership has thus far stood behind Scalise after he apologized for stumping for racists and swore he didn’t share their beliefs. It’s even possible that Scalise may weather this scandal with his job intact. Despite the preponderance of evidence against him, the media has been willing to give him a pass after a person at the 2002 convention – who is himself a white supremacist and friend of former KKK leader David Duke – claimed Scalise gave his speech in a separate area from the racist part and probably didn’t know he was speaking to a group of neo-Nazis. Sure.
But with all the added exposure, other skeletons were bound to turn up in Scalise’s closet. One of those skeletons is his affiliation with the Family Research Council.
Scalise is a regular guest and longtime supporter of Tony Perkins, who heads up the FRC. The group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as specializing exclusively in “defaming gays and lesbians” through false claims, targeted bullying campaigns and pushing anti-gay junk science. In the clearest definition of the word, the FRC is a hate group. It’s an organization which has just one mission: gay bashing. Scalise is a big fan.
Naturally, the idea that a Republican politician would pal around with homophobic hate groups isn’t as controversial as giving speeches to neo-Nazis, but it should be. Scalise won’t be condemned for lending credence to a guy like Perkins, who frequently says things about gay people like “To me, that is the height of hatred, to be silent when we know there are individuals that are engaged in activity, behavior, and an agenda that will destroy them and our nation.” And that says a lot about just how stuck in the past the Republican Party truly is.
They discreetly pander to racists and hope they won’t get caught, but when it comes to anti-gay bigots, they don’t even try to hide their admiration for them. Many within the party are themselves anti-gay. The official Republican Party platform – written in 2012, but reads like it’s from the 1950s – makes a point of saying the GOP is firmly for “traditional marriage” and claims “studies” have shown that gay parents are typically harmful for children – the same kinds of bunk science that the FRC loves to promote.
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