The Tony Perkins Award

Lots of contenders this week. Let's get right to it, with the man himself: Tony Perkins is going for the gold:

Well I think as we witnessed this past week at the Family Research Council, clearly linked to that same atmosphere of hostility that’s created by the public policies of an administration that’s indifferent or hostile to religious freedom and groups like as I mentioned the Southern Poverty Law Center that recklessly throws around labels giving people like this gunman who came into our building a license to take innocent life.

It's all Obama's fault. This from the man who used to think that open racism was the way to go. I guess it doesn't pay as much as gay-bashing, but old habits die hard, they say.

I'm not sure if Andrea Lafferty qualifies for this award -- she maybe should be a contender for the Through the Looking Glass Award, since she's as delusional as her father, Lou Sheldon. But she's in rare form this week:

The head of the Traditional Values Coalition, an anti-gay group that is equally as vile as the FRC, is claiming that shooter Floyd Corkins was arrested while carrying their address. . . .

Lafferty claims she's gotten no response to requests for federal protection: "Under this Justice Department, Christians are a very low priority on their lists of concerns."

I suspect the DoJ considers "Christians" a fairly high priority and is keeping an eye on the TVC and similar groups (as much as they are allowed under the teabagger Congress, which is firmly wedded to the principle that only brown people commit terrorist acts), since they or their followers are responsible for most of the violence.

Here's an example of the TVC's "Christian" message:

Ever hear of Michael Heath? He's the anti-gay stalwart in Maine who was eased out of the anti-marriage fight a couple of years ago because he was extreme enough to embarrass the extremists. Well, he's back:

"If Maine doesn't end this decades long conflict over the evil of sodomy with an overwhelming NO vote in November we can expect to see this sort of violence in Maine in the near future. Homosexuality can lead to the most horrific and violent consequences in individuals and society. The twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because of it."

Heath is awaiting receipt of his concealed weapons permit from the Maine State Police. He claimed it is the responsibility of all good men to be prepared to protect innocence from evil. Force must be met with force so that innocent people are not harmed.

Given Heath's own words, we can guess where the violence will come from. Oh, and about Sodom and Gomorrah -- another "Christian" who apparently doesn't read the Bible.

And maybe Heath's another one who should be in the running for the TLG Award -- he sounds crazy enough.