Watch: CNN’s Chris Cuomo Slams Family Research Council Spox Over Anti-Gay ‘Christian’ Beliefs

CNN’s Chris Cuomo earns another gold star for his excellent questioning of another anti-gay activists this time a lobbyist from the Family Research Council.

Recently, CNN “New Day” host Chris Cuomo interviewed Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore and disintegrated his “legal” claims as mere anti-gay animus and hate. He did the same in an interview with Dr. Ben Carson. This morning, Cuomo yet again took the hate and hypocrisy spewings of Peter Sprigg, a spokesperson and policy expert for the anti-gay hate group Family Research Council and whittled them down to their basic parts: hate and hypocrisy wrapped up as “religious freedom.”

Sprigg’s anti-gay hate, of course, is one of the main reasons the Family Research Council was designated an anti-gay hate group. In 2010 Sprigg told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that gay behavior should be outlawed and gays should be exported.

This morning, Sprigg continued on his anti-gay crusade, but Cuomo would have none of it.

Sprigg insisted the Indiana anti-gay “religious freedom” law “doesn’t even talk about gays,” and strongly suggested the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is almost exactly the same law as the federal RFRA and ones across the nation – which it is not. 

But it was Cuomo’s cross examination that won the day, especially this query:

“What is it about someone being gay or someone wanting to marry someone of the same sex — what is there in that that is keeping you from being the Christian you want to be?” 

Here’s another exchange via Mediaite:

“There is a picture that’s circulating around of the governor as he signed [the bill],” Cuomo said. “Several of the people in the picture are outspoken critics of gay existence. Now, that’s not a coincidence. It’s not a coincidence why you’re against it. Let me ask you, why do so many Christians these days believe that the exercise of their faith requires exclusion and judgment of others?”

“Some people have a sincere, conscientious belief that marriage is defined as the union between a man and a woman,” Sprigg replied. “In fact the majority of Americans believe that.”

“Popularity is not the ultimate arbiter of what is right and wrong if protecting rights under the Constitution,” Cuomo said. “The question then goes to: why do you need this? What is it about someone being gay or someone wanting to marry someone of the same sex — what is there in that that is keeping you from being the Christian you want to be?…If I said, Mr. Sprigg, you must go marry a man right now, you can say, no, that’s a violation of my faith. Maybe that, you would be able clear this burden. But how is wanting to judge others somehow stopping you from practicing your faith?”

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