Family Research Council president Tony Perkins discussed the "growing number of top Republicans who are donating to pro-gay causes" with right-wing radio host Janet Mefferd yesterday. Mefferd noted "the extent to which the GOP doesn't want to fight on this issue anymore" and Perkins asserted it is causing a breakdown in moral order evidenced by the Secret Service prostitution scandal and the repeal of 'DADT', Right Wing Watch reports:
Said Perkins:
Just for a moment step back and look at the implications of this, over the weekend we saw the news of the President's Secret Service detail in Colombia and the issue of them hiring prostitutes and now the White House is outraged about that. Actually in a meeting this morning my staff asked, ‘why should the President be upset'? It was actually legal; it was legal there to do that, so why should we be upset? Well, the fact is we intuitively know it's wrong, there's a moral law against that.
The same is true for what the President has done to the military enforcing open homosexuality in our military. You can change the law but you can't change the moral law that's behind it. You can change the positive law, the law that is created by man, but you can't change the moral law, it's wrong. So what you have is you have a total breakdown and you can't pick and choose. Morality is not a smorgasbord; you can't pick what you want. I think you're absolutely right, this is a fundamental issue going forward because if we say ‘let them do what we want,' what's next? You cannot maintain moral order if you are willing to allow a few things to slide.
Audio over at Right Wing Watch.
