Perkins Dis-Invited!

Tony Perkins’ invitation to speak at Andrews Air Force Base was revoked over controversial remarks he made concerning the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The 1993 law that forbids gay troops from serving openly, POLITICO reported.

Perkins, the president of the Christian-based Family Research Council, is opposed to the president’s plan to repeal the law. His group also played a prominent role in repealing a gay marriage law in Maine last year.

Perkins told the Christian News Service (CNS) that he was dis-invited to a prayer luncheon this past Thursday on the Maryland base after he wrote an op-ed critical of President Obama’s call to end the policy in his first State of the Union address.

“At a time of enormous economic challenge, two on-going wars in which Americans are fighting and increased terrorist threats to Americans at home, President Obama seems untethered from that reality as he called on Congress to force the military to allow open homosexuality,” Perkins said in a statement published on his group’s website January 27. “As a veteran of the Marine Corps, the timing of the President’s call in the midst of two wars shows that he is willing to jeopardize our nation’s security to advance the agenda of the radical homosexual lobby.”

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