The head of the Family Research Council today blamed a string of pro-equality federal court rulings striking down same-sex marriage bans on President Obama’s “rising disdain for the rule of law.”
Tony Perkins must be having conniptions over today’s pro-equality rulings in Utah, Indiana, and even Louisiana. How else could anyone explain his official statement as the president of the Family Research Council today? Despite the fact that most of the rulings over the past year in support of same-sex marriage have come from federal judges nominated by Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan, Perkins believes that somehow President Barack Obama is to blame.
Calling the pro-equality rulings “a further attempt by the courts to untether our public policies from the democratic process, as well as the anthropological record,” Perkins, the head of an anti-gay hate group who has a desire to become a U.S. Congressman and has coddled up to Gov. Bobby Jindal as his mentor to get him there, says that “today’s rulings come as no surprise given the rising disdain for the rule of law promoted by the Obama administration.”
Of course, this must be placed in context. Today Speaker of the House John Boehner announced the House will sue President Obama over his executive orders, which the GOP claims are evidence of lawlessness.Â
But of course, in Perkins’ world, God will have the final say.
“While judges can, by judicial fiat, declare same-sex ‘marriage’ legal, they will never be able to make it right,” Perkins says today. “The courts, for all their power, can’t overturn natural law. What they can do is incite a movement of indignant Americans, who are tired of seeing the foundations of a free and just society destroyed by a handful of black-robed tyrants. The Left has long believed packing the federal courts with liberal jurists is the means of fulfilling a radical social agenda, as the American people refuse to endorse that agenda at the polls or through their elected representatives.”
And despite the cold, hard fact that 56 to 59 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, Perkins sees a conservative ground swell coming.
“As we saw with Roe v. Wade in 1973 – despite the Left’s earnest hopes, the courts do not have the final say. The American people will have the final word as they experience the consequences of marriage redefinition and the ways in which it fundamentally alters America’s moral, cultural and political landscape.”
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