Tony Perkins: Stop donating to the GOP!

[DonViejo]

The social conservative leader escalates the civil war over the Republican Party's future

BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is urging activists to stop donating money to the GOP, escalating the ongoing war between social conservatives and the mainline Republican Party.

“Until the RNC and the other national Republican organizations grow a backbone and start defending core principles, don’t send them a dime of your hard-earned money,” Perkins said in the email to supporters obtained by CNN. “If you want to invest in the political process, and I encourage you to do so, give directly to candidates who reflect your values and organizations you trust-like FRC Action.”

The Republican National Committee is this week meting in California, where the Christian-right hopes it will adopt a resolution affirming their opposition to marriage equality. Perkins and a dozen other social conservative leaders wrote a strongly worded letter to committee members yesterday warning that if they do not adopt the resolution, it “will necessarily result in the abandonment of our constituents’” support for GOP candidates.

“Instead of trying to appease millennials, Republicans should try educating them on why marriage matters,” Perkins wrote in his email to supporters.

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http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/tony_perkins_stop_donating_to_the_gop/

[arcane1]

1. "organizations you trust-like FRC Action" - no surprise seeing that there!

This is getting to be too much fun

[sakabatou]

2. FRC Action...

Has any one of their candidates gotten any traction?

[EC]

3. I think the millennials KNOW THAT MARRIAGE MATTERS.

That's why they are for gay marriage, because it does matter to EVERYBODY.

What a yuatz.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Wow

If they are upset now- with only a few quiet GOP whispers of maybe not hating gays so much- I can't imagine what's going to happen when GOP pols start coming out for gay marriage and/or ending discrimination againsts GLBTs in housing, employment, etc.

Pass the popcorn, please!