TONY PERKINS USES SHOOTING TO BLAST SPLC FOR 'HATE GROUP' DESIGNATION – WHITE SUPREMACIST REPORTS ON IT FOR WORLD NET DAILY

A few days ago a guy named Floyd Lee Corkins shot and wounded a security guard at the Family Research Council offices in Washington DC, reportedly because he was opposed to their conservative/homophobic leanings. To that end, it was expected that Tony Perkins, the head of the FRC (pictured here speaking at a Council of Conservative Citizens meeting back in 2001), would take the opportunity to call out the Southern Poverty Law Center for designating them as a hate group two years ago and, in his words at a press conference today, “reckless use of terminology.” Unfortunately for Perkins, when the charge is solid, all anyone needs to do is let things present themselves, such as this 2001 photo or perhaps the fact that white supremacist Kevin DeAnna wrote for World Net Daily – who for some reason has been cozying up to that crowd for some time now – in support of the FRC.

Joe.My.God.

Failing to mention that he himself founded a white supremacist group, former Youth For Western Civilization president Kevin DeAnna has authored a World Net Daily article in support of the Family Research Council.

In a press conference in front of the council’s Washington headquarters, Perkins thanked political opponents who expressed their condolences after the attack by a man who had been volunteering at an LGBT center. But the FRC chief challenged them “to go a step further.” He also asked organizations that condemned the violence to “call for an end to the reckless rhetoric that I believe” led to the shooting. Perkins identified the Southern Poverty Law Center as responsible for the atmosphere, stating that it gave suspected gunman Floyd Lee Corkins “a license to shoot.” When challenged by reporters, Perkins expanded on his remarks and claimed that the SPLC’s designation of the Family Research Council as a “certified hate group … marginalizes individuals and organizations letting people feel free to go and do bodily harm to innocent people who are simply working and representing folks from all across this country.”

Last year a representative for Youth For Western Civilization joined a march of German nationalists and neo-Nazis.

Also represented was a small but growing nonprofit U.S. organization called Youth for Western Civilization. The group, which bills itself as “America’s right-wing youth movement,” bannered a photo of the Cologne rally on its website this week, accompanying an account that declared that “we will not falter nor fail in our attempt for the defense of the Western homeland.” Youth for Western Civilization, which has chapters at only about 10 U.S. campuses, is just one of hundreds of conservative student organizations around the nation, far smaller than better-known college-based groups like Young Americans for Freedom and College Republicans. But its influence is bigger than its size, drawing the attention of large numbers of admirers — and critics — since it began organizing three years ago. Thanks to its discipline in advocating a small number of simply stated positions and a new-media-savvy communications strategy, YWC may be radically refreshing the template for political organizing in American higher education.

The Family Research Council and neo-Nazis are birds of a feather as Tony Perkins has twice spoken before a Louisiana white supremacy group that lists an end to “race mixing” among its “statement of principles.”