Watch as a Family Research Council spokesperson calls for broad religious freedom laws to “protect” those opposed to same-sex marriage.
Family Research Council spokesperson Peter Sprigg is calling on Congress to pass the federal First Amendment Defense Act to “protect” Christians who oppose same-sex marriage. The FRC spox appeared this morning on CNN, telling Chris Cuomo, “it’s sad that people who have achieved a great victory in terms of the Supreme Court ruling are unwilling to be gracious winners and allow other people to simply disagree and act on their beliefs.”
Those beliefs, at least for Sprigg, include outlawing homosexuality, ensuring harmful and dangerous “ex-gay” therapy is legal, and calling the Obama administration’s support of LGBT civil rights around the world “fanatical cultural imperialism.”
Sprigg’s anti-gay hate group Family Research Council has been far from being a gracious winner as it spent decades marginalizing and telling lies about LGBT people.
For the broader religious community Sprigg claims to represent, he would like to “protect” anyone who has a sincerely held religious belief against gay people or same-sex marriage to be able to operate as if they did not exist.
Sprigg offered this tweet on Friday, after the SCOTUS ruling:
Did the Supreme Court outlaw them and forget to tell us?
Watch as CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviews Sprigg:
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