Dan Savage absolutely demolishing Troy Perkins on the subject of Prop 8 (h/t Andrew Sullivan).
By the end, Dan has established that Perkins is pushing studies with all the validity of tobacco-company reports that smoking is good for you, that Perkins apparently thinks it’s okay to ban inter-racial marriage, that Perkins doesn’t believe that the government should be in the business of protecting civil rights, and that Perkins is going to hell for all his lying.
In one sense, it’s depressing that someone who has absolutely no interest in promoting a reasonable story or telling the truth gets a soapbox like this. I know it’s not the most hateful of his lies, but it’s just preposterous that he feels like he can assert that young people “understand more than anybody what happens when you re-define marriage” in the face of all evidence that young people overwhelmingly voted against Prop 8.
I know I’m biased on this question, but I don’t know how anyone could watch this and think that Perkins has any clue what he’s talking about.