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{{Short description|American evangelical activist group}}
{{Distinguish|Family Research Institute}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2016}}
{{Infobox organization
| name            = Family Research Council
| image           = [[File:Family Research Council logo.png|197px]]
| caption         = Logo of Family Research Council
| founder         = [[James Dobson]]
| type            = [[501(c)(3)]] [[non-profit organization]]
| tax_id          = 52-1792772 ([[Employer Identification Number|EIN]])
| registration_id =
| founded_date    = 1983
| location        = 801 G St NW, [[Washington, D.C.]]
| key_people      = {{ubl|[[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]], President|Thomas R. Anderson, Chairman}}
| area_served     = United States
| revenue         = $12,065,844 (2016 [[Fiscal year|FY]])<ref name=ProPublica>{{cite web|url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521792772|title=Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica |author1=Mike Tigas |author2=Sisi Wei |author3=Ken Schwencke |author4=Alec Glassford |date=May 9, 2013 |publisher=ProPublica|access-date=January 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118181738/https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/521792772|archive-date=January 18, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
| num_employees   = 85
| motto           =
| former name     =
| homepage        = {{URL|https://frc.org}}
| dissolved       =
| footnotes       = [https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/download-filing?path=2016_11_EO%2F52-1792772_990_201606.pdf 2016 FY Tax Return]}}{{Conservatism US}}

The '''Family Research Council''' ('''FRC''') is an American [[evangelical]] activist group and [[think-tank]] with an affiliated lobbying organization. FRC promotes what it considers to be [[family values]].<ref name=":0" /> It opposes and lobbies against: access to [[pornography]], [[Stem cell controversy|embryonic stem-cell research]], [[abortion]], [[divorce]], and [[LGBT rights]]—such as [[anti-discrimination law]]s, [[same-sex marriage]], [[civil union|same-sex civil unions]], and [[LGBT adoption]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Peterson|first=David James|date=2010|title=The 'basis for a just, free, and stable society': Institutional Homophobia and Governance at the Family Research Council|url=https://journal.equinoxpub.com/GL/article/view/11584|journal=Gender and Language|language=en|volume=4|issue=2|pages=257–286|doi=10.1558/genl.v4i2.257|issn=1747-633X}}</ref> The FRC has been criticized by media sources and professional organizations such as the [[American Sociological Association]] for using "anti-gay pseudoscience" to falsely conflate homosexuality and [[pedophilia]], and falsely to claim that the children of same-sex parents suffer from more mental health problems.<ref name="Wired" /><ref name=DailyBeast/><ref name="Vox">{{cite web |last=Lopez |first=German |author-link= |date=20 February 2017 |title=Milo Yiannopoulos resurrected a dangerous old myth about gay men and pedophilia |url=https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/2/20/14668372/milo-yiannopoulos-gay-pedophilia-myth |publisher=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]}}</ref>

FRC was formed in the United States in 1981 by [[James Dobson]] and incorporated in 1983.<ref name="FRCHistory">{{cite news|title=About FRC: History/Mission|publisher=Family Research Council|date=May 8, 2010|url=http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=HISTORY_ABOUT |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070204154035/http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?c=HISTORY_ABOUT|archive-date=February 4, 2007}}</ref> In the late 1980s, FRC officially became a division of Dobson's main organization, [[Focus on the Family]]; however, after an administrative separation, FRC became an independent entity in 1992. [[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]] is its current president. FRC is affiliated with a lobbying [[political action committee|PAC]] known as FRC Action, of which [[Josh Duggar]] was the executive director from 2013 until 2015.<ref>{{cite book|title=The interest group connection: electioneering, lobbying, and policymaking in Washington|year=2005|publisher=CQ Press|isbn=978-1-56802-922-1|page=410|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m7LuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22frc+action%22|author=Paul S. Herrnson|author2=Ronald G. Shaiko|author3=Clyde Wilcox|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref><ref name="WP_2013">{{cite news|date=2013-06-18|title=Josh Duggar moving to D.C. for political job with Family Research Council|newspaper=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/06/18/josh-duggar-moving-to-d-c-for-political-job-with-family-research-council/|url-status=live|access-date=2017-08-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529125622/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/reliable-source/wp/2013/06/18/josh-duggar-moving-to-d-c-for-political-job-with-family-research-council/|archive-date=2015-05-29}}</ref><ref name=NYTDuggar>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/09/us/josh-duggar-guilty.html Josh Duggar Is Convicted of Downloading Child Sexual Abuse Imagery], ''[[The New York Times]]'', December 9, 2021</ref>

The FRC is active outside of the United States; in 2010, FRC paid $25,000 to congressional lobbyists for what they described as "Res.1064 Ugandan Resolution Pro-homosexual promotion" in a lobbying disclosure report. [[Uganda]] would go on to pass the [[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]], a bill which would have imposed either the death penalty or life imprisonment for sexual relations between persons of the same sex. On 1 August 2014, however, the Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled the act invalid on procedural grounds.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Weigel" /><ref name="McEwan" /><ref name="disclosure" />

In 2010, the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] classified FRC as an [[List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups|anti-LGBT hate group]] due to what it says are the group's "false claims about the LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science" in an effort to block LGBT civil rights.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Eichler|first1=Alex|title=13 New Organizations Added to Anti-Gay 'Hate Groups' List|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/13-new-organizations-added-to-anti-gay-hate-groups-list/343292/|website=The Wire via The Atlantic|access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315000604/https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/13-new-organizations-added-to-anti-gay-hate-groups-list/343292/|archive-date=March 15, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Lin|first1=Joy|title=Family Research Council Demands Apology Over 'Hate Group' Label|url=http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/25/family-research-council-demands-apology-over-hate-group-label.html|website=FoxNews|date=March 25, 2015|access-date=March 6, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312085805/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/25/family-research-council-demands-apology-over-hate-group-label.html|archive-date=March 12, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2012, the FRC's headquarters were attacked by a gunman, resulting in an injury to a security guard, in connection with this designation.<ref name="wapomag18" />

==History==
The Council was incorporated as a nonprofit organization in 1983.<ref>Timothy J. Demy Ph.D., Paul R. Shockley Ph.D., ''Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture'', ABC-CLIO, USA, 2017, p. 153</ref><ref>Hilde Løvdal Stephens, ''Family Matters: James Dobson and Focus on the Family's Crusade for the Christian Home'', University of Alabama Press, USA, 2019, p. 19</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Single Mothers and the State: The Politics of Care in Sweden and the United States|last=Winkler|first=Celia|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|year=2002|isbn=978-0847691319|location=United States|pages=202}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in International Politics|last1=Buss|first1=Doris|last2=Herman|first2=Didi|publisher=[[University of Minnesota Press]]|year=2003|isbn=9780816642076|location=United States|pages=[https://archive.org/details/globalizingfamil0000buss/page/ XXVIII — Introduction et al.]|url=https://archive.org/details/globalizingfamil0000buss/page/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Law: 2011 Edition|last=Rozell|first=Mark|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|year=2011|isbn=978-0230110632|location=United States|pages=19 et al}}</ref> [[James Dobson]], [[Armand Nicholi|Armand Nicholi Jr.]], and [[George Rekers]] were some of its founding board members.<ref name="FRCHistory"/> In 1988, following financial difficulties, FRC was incorporated into [[Focus on the Family]], and [[Gary Bauer]] joined the organization as president.<ref name="cyc">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of American religion and politics|year=2003|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-4582-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=frt7RDOT1PUC&pg=PA45|author= Paul A. Djupe|author2=Laura R. Olson|access-date=November 28, 2010|page=163}}</ref> FRC remained under the Focus on the Family umbrella until 1992,<ref name=cyc/> when it separated out of concern for Focus' tax-exempt status.<ref>{{cite book|title=Conservative Christians and political participation: a reference handbook|year=2004|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-513-1|page=355|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4lGEFFIuNG4C&pg=PA222|author=Glenn H. Utter|author2=James L. True|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref> [[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]] joined FRC as its president in 2003.<ref>Michael Foust, 
[https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/tony-perkins-pro-family-leader-baptist-in-la-named-frc-president/ Tony Perkins, pro-family leader & Baptist in La., named FRC president], baptistpress.com, USA, August 13, 2003</ref>

On June 18, 2013, [[Josh Duggar]] was named [[executive director]] of FRC Action, the non-profit and tax-exempt legislative action arm of Family Research Council.<ref name="upi.com">{{cite news|title=Josh Duggar snags Family Research Council job in Washington, D.C.|url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Blog/2013/06/18/Josh-Duggar-snags-Family-Research-Council-job-in-Washington-DC/8331371603038|work=United Press International|access-date=June 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619015050/http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Blog/2013/06/18/Josh-Duggar-snags-Family-Research-Council-job-in-Washington-DC/8331371603038/|archive-date=June 19, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Duggar resigned his position on May 21, 2015, after his history of sexual misconduct as a minor became public.<ref name=Ohlheiser>{{cite news|title=Josh Duggar apologizes amid molestation allegations: 'I acted inexcusably'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/05/21/josh-duggar-apologizes-resigns-from-family-research-council-amid-molestation-allegations|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Abby|last=Ohlheiser|date=May 22, 2015|access-date=January 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522040032/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/05/21/josh-duggar-apologizes-resigns-from-family-research-council-amid-molestation-allegations/|archive-date=May 22, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=Thompson>{{cite news|last1=Thompson|first1=Doug|title=Josh Duggar admits to wrongdoing, resigns|url=http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/may/22/oldest-of-tv-s-19-kids-admits-to-wrongd/|access-date=January 18, 2018|publisher=Arkansas Online|date=May 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525102204/http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/may/22/oldest-of-tv-s-19-kids-admits-to-wrongd/|archive-date=May 25, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===2012 shooting===
On August 15, 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II, a resident of nearby [[Herndon, Virginia]], entered the lobby of the FRC's Washington, D.C. headquarters with a 9mm pistol and two magazines with 50 rounds of ammunition.<ref>{{cite news|title=Family Research Council shooter pleads guilty to three felonies|author=Ann E. Marimow|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/family-research-council-shooter-pleads-guilty-two-three-felonies-including-terrorism-charge-in-federal-court/2013/02/06/aa2086b2-7075-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 6, 2013|access-date=December 7, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220140106/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/family-research-council-shooter-pleads-guilty-two-three-felonies-including-terrorism-charge-in-federal-court/2013/02/06/aa2086b2-7075-11e2-ac36-3d8d9dcaa2e2_story.html|archive-date=December 20, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Corkins shot an unarmed security guard, 46-year-old Leonardo Johnson, in the left arm.<ref>{{cite news|title=Family Research Council shooting leaves security guard wounded|author=Jennifer Donelan|url=http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/08/chinatown-shooting-leaves-two-wounded-78851.html|publisher=WJLA|date=August 15, 2012|access-date=August 27, 2012|archive-date=August 25, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825174757/http://www.wjla.com/articles/2012/08/chinatown-shooting-leaves-two-wounded-78851.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.christianpost.com/news/family-research-council-security-guard-leo-johnson-god-put-me-in-a-position-to-be-there-80273|title=Family Research Council Hero Leo Johnson: 'God Put Me In a Position to Be There'|website=www.christianpost.com|date=August 20, 2012 |access-date=May 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113093104/https://www.christianpost.com/news/family-research-council-security-guard-leo-johnson-god-put-me-in-a-position-to-be-there-80273/|archive-date=January 13, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/dc-shooting/index.html|title=Suspect charged in Washington Family Research Council shooting|first=Carol|last=Cratty|website=CNN.com|access-date=May 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170502005548/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/dc-shooting/index.html|archive-date=May 2, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Although injured, Johnson assisted others who wrestled Corkins to the ground until police arrived and placed him under arrest.<ref name=todaystv>{{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Jessica|title=Official: Suspect Floyd Corkins II criticized group before Wash. shooting|publisher=Today's THV|url=http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/222262/288/Official-Suspect-criticized-Christian-group-before-Wash-shooting-|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819022641/http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/222262/288/Official-Suspect-criticized-Christian-group-before-Wash-shooting-|archive-date=August 19, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="nyt081512">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/us/shooting-at-family-research-council-in-washington.html|title=Policy Group in Washington Is Shooting Site|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 15, 2012|access-date=August 15, 2012|author=Emery, Theo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816184632/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/16/us/shooting-at-family-research-council-in-washington.html|archive-date=August 16, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=nbcshoot>{{cite web|last=DiMargo|first=Carissa|title=Security Guard Shot at Family Research Council in Downtown DC|date=August 15, 2012 |url=http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Security-Guard-Shot-Downtown-DC-166259926.html|publisher=NBC News Washington|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819090758/http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Security-Guard-Shot-Downtown-DC-166259926.html|archive-date=August 19, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Politico (magazine)|Politico]]'' reported that "Corkins was carrying 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches that he intended to smear on employees’ faces in a political statement, he told the FBI."<ref name=politico>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/frc-shooter-sentenced-to-25-years-097069|work=[[Politico (magazine)|Politico]]|title=FRC shooter sentenced to 25 years|first=Tal|last=Kopan|date=September 19, 2013|accessdate=June 15, 2023}}</ref>

The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and the Metropolitan Police Department investigated jointly "to determine motive/intent and whether a hate crime/terrorism nexus exists." During his FBI interview, Corkins was asked how he chose his target. His response was "Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online."<ref name=poliglot>{{cite web|url=http://www.metroweekly.com/poliglot/2013/04/family-research-council-posts-videos-of-corkins-sh.html|title=Family Research Council posts videos of Corkins shooting, interrogation prior to sentencing|access-date=December 12, 2021|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130430151345/http://metroweekly.com/poliglot/2013/04/family-research-council-posts-videos-of-corkins-sh.html|archive-date=April 30, 2013|date=April 13, 2013|last=Riley|first=John|work=[[Metro Weekly]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgjI3wavx-I&feature=player_embedded|title=Confessed Terrorist Floyd Corkins Admits to Using SPLC Target List|date=April 24, 2013|publisher=YouTube|access-date=February 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224045417/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgjI3wavx-I&feature=player_embedded|archive-date=February 24, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="wapo0816">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/mother-of-security-guard-shot-in-dc-happy-to-hear-him-called-hero/2012/08/16/531ed060-e7a1-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html|title=Floyd Lee Corkins charged in Family Research Council shooting|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 16, 2012|access-date=August 16, 2012|author=Hermann, Peter|author2=Alexander, Keith L.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816235929/http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/mother-of-security-guard-shot-in-dc-happy-to-hear-him-called-hero/2012/08/16/531ed060-e7a1-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html|archive-date=August 16, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Corkins had told Johnson "words to the effect of 'I don't like your politics.{{' "}}<ref name="nyt08163">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/us/family-research-council-shooting-possibly-driven-by-politics.html|title=Family Research Council Shooting Possibly Driven by Politics|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 16, 2012|access-date=August 17, 2012|author=Schmidt, Michael S.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817084225/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/us/family-research-council-shooting-possibly-driven-by-politics.html|archive-date=August 17, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="cnn1"/> Corkins had served as a volunteer at an [[LGBT]] community center.<ref name=todaystv/><ref name=cbsshoot>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57493780/lgbt-volunteer-shoots-conservative-groups-guard|title=Cops: LGBT volunteer shoots conservative group's guard|work=[[CBS News]]|date=August 15, 2012|access-date=August 15, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818005848/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57493780/lgbt-volunteer-shoots-conservative-groups-guard|archive-date=August 18, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2013, Corkins pleaded guilty to two charges in the [[District of Columbia]], possession of a handgun during a violent crime and assault with intent to kill, and interstate transportation of a firearm and ammunition, a federal charge.<ref>{{cite news|title=Herndon man indicted in Family Research Council shooting|url=https://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-08-22/local/35492429_1_floyd-lee-corkins-ii-security-guard-chick-fil-a-sandwiches|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 22, 2012|access-date=August 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012045735/http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-08-22/local/35492429_1_floyd-lee-corkins-ii-security-guard-chick-fil-a-sandwiches|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/02/floyd-corkins-hearing-accused-frc-shooter-may-take-plea-deal-84917.html|date=February 6, 2013|title=Floyd Corkins pleads guilty to Family Research Council shooting|publisher=WJLA|quote=Corkins pleaded guilty to one federal count of crossing state lines with guns and ammunition. He also pleaded guilty to one count of intent to kill while armed and one count of committing an act of terrorism with the intent to kill.|access-date=February 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130209211539/http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/02/floyd-corkins-hearing-accused-frc-shooter-may-take-plea-deal-84917.html|archive-date=February 9, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> He was found mentally ill and, in September 2013, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.<ref name=wapomag18>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/11/08/feature/is-the-southern-poverty-law-center-judging-hate-fairly/?wpmm=1|title=The State of Hate|date=November 8, 2018|accessdate=December 12, 2021|last=Montgomery|first=David|work=[[Washington Post Magazine]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Virginia Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison in Shooting of Security Guard at Family Research Council|url=http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2013/virginia-man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison-in-shooting-of-security-guard-at-family-research-council|publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|access-date=October 11, 2013|date=September 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012024430/http://www.fbi.gov/washingtondc/press-releases/2013/virginia-man-sentenced-to-25-years-in-prison-in-shooting-of-security-guard-at-family-research-council|archive-date=October 12, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

On the day of the shooting, the SPLC, along with a joint statement of 25 LGBT groups, condemned Corkins' action.<ref name=nbcshoot/> The [[National Organization for Marriage]], an active campaigner against [[same-sex marriage]],<ref name="cnn1">[http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/15/us/dc-shooting/index.html Virginia man charged in shooting at Family Research Council] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816034647/http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/15/us/dc-shooting/index.html|date=August 16, 2012}}, [[CNN]].</ref> issued a statement saying "Today's attack is the clearest sign we've seen that labeling pro-marriage groups as 'hateful' must end".<ref name="natrevnom">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314085/oh-my-goodness-kathryn-jean-lopez|title=Oh My Goodness|work=The Corner|date=August 15, 2012|access-date=May 6, 2015|author=Lopez, Kathryn Jean|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522133210/http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/314085/oh-my-goodness-kathryn-jean-lopez|archive-date=May 22, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

FRC president Tony Perkins issued a public statement calling the shooting "an act of domestic terrorism" and criticizing the Southern Poverty Law Center for being "reckless in labeling organizations as hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy."<ref name="wapo08162">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/family-research-council-accuses-southern-poverty-law-center-of-sparking-shooters-hatred/2012/08/16/6fd6b46e-e7e9-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html|title=Family Research Council accuses Southern Poverty Law Center of sparking shooter's hatred|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=August 16, 2012|access-date=August 16, 2012|author=Lisee, Chris|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818235739/http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/family-research-council-accuses-southern-poverty-law-center-of-sparking-shooters-hatred/2012/08/16/6fd6b46e-e7e9-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html|archive-date=August 18, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> SPLC spokesman Mark Potok called Perkins' accusation "outrageous", and in a statement said: "The FRC and its allies on the religious right are saying, in effect, that offering legitimate and fact-based criticism in a democratic society is tantamount to suggesting that the objects of criticism should be the targets of criminal violence."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/dc-shooting-blame/index.html|title=After D.C. shooting, fingers point over blame|publisher=CNN|date=August 16, 2012|access-date=August 18, 2012|author=Watkins, Tom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120817221642/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/16/us/dc-shooting-blame/index.html|archive-date=August 17, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Potok posted that "The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people — not, as some claim, because it opposes same-sex marriage."<ref name="splc_aug_2012">[http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/16/splc-family-research-council-license-to-kill-claim-%E2%80%98outrageous%E2%80%99 "SPLC: Family Research Council License-to-Kill Claim 'Outrageous'"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120819000032/http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/16/splc-family-research-council-license-to-kill-claim-%E2%80%98outrageous%E2%80%99|date=August 19, 2012}}, August 16, 2012; retrieved May 6, 2015.</ref>

==Politics, policies and positions==
[[File:Perkins-dobson-01.jpg|thumb|[[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]] and [[James Dobson]] at the Values Voters conference in [[Washington, D.C.]], 2007]]
Tony Perkins has blamed the [[Separation of church and state in the United States|constitutional separation of church and state]] for encouraging the rise of [[ISIS]] and similar Islamic extremist groups.<ref>{{cite news |title=Religious right leader ties U.S. 'secularism' to Islamic State |url=https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/religious-right-leader-ties-us-secularism-islamic-state |access-date=15 December 2019 |work=MSNBC |date=17 September 2014}}</ref>

The FRC has opposed efforts to make the [[human papilloma virus]] (HPV) [[vaccine]] mandatory for school attendance. HPV is a [[virus]] that can be [[sexually transmitted infection|transmitted by sexual contact]], that can cause [[cervical cancer]]. FRC defends its position on the basis of the [[parental rights|rights of parents]] and because of its support for abstinence prior to marriage.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clarification of 2005 Family Research Council Media Remarks on HPV Vaccine|url=http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=LH07B02|publisher=Family Research Council|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701172602/http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=LH07B02|archive-date=July 1, 2007}}</ref>

It supports a federal [[Conscience clause (medical)|conscience clause]], allowing medical workers to refuse to provide certain treatments to their patients, such as abortion, [[blood transfusion]] {{clarify|date=November 2022}} or [[birth control]]. It also advocates for [[abstinence-only sex education]], [[intelligent design]], prayer in public schools and the regulation of pornography and other "[[Obscenity|obscene]], [[indecency|indecent]], or [[Profanity|profane]] programming" on [[broadcast television|broadcast]] and [[cable television]]. It unsuccessfully opposed the introduction of an [[.xxx]] [[domain name]] and lobbied for an increase in indecency fines from the [[Federal Communications Commission]].<ref name="auto">{{cite news|last=Brynaert|first=Ron|title=Coalition of conservative groups believe hotel porn may be prosecutable|access-date=November 28, 2010|newspaper=Raw Story|date=August 22, 2006|archive-date=October 15, 2007|url=http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Coalition_of_conservative_groups_believe_hotel_0822.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015151352/http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Coalition_of_conservative_groups_believe_hotel_0822.html}}</ref><ref name=Crary060823>{{cite news|last=Crary|first=David|title=Ad crusade targets hotel porn movies - Conservatives want feds to pull the plug|newspaper=The Journal Gazette|date=August 23, 2006|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The group holds that hotel pornography may be prosecutable under federal and state obscenity laws.<ref name=Crary>{{cite news|last=Crary|first=David|title=Ad crusade targets hotel porn movies&nbsp;— Conservatives want feds to pull the plug|newspaper=The Journal Gazette|date=August 23, 2006|agency=Associated Press}}</ref> It opposed the expansion of [[Civil and political rights|civil rights laws]] to include [[sexual orientation]] and [[gender identity]] as illegal bases for [[discrimination]].<ref name="FRC.civ.rights">{{cite web|url=http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF07K01.pdf|title=Homosexuality Is Not a Civil Right|publisher=Family Research Council|access-date=May 12, 2018}}</ref>

Family Research Council supports the requirement of a one-year waiting period before a married couple with children can legally get a [[divorce]] so that they can receive marital counseling, unless the marriage involves [[domestic violence]]. FRC also supports permanently eliminating the [[marriage penalty]] and [[estate taxes]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frc.org/onepagers/model-legislation-divorce-reform-for-families-with-children|title=Family Research Council|publisher=frc.org|access-date=May 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616030609/http://www.frc.org/onepagers/model-legislation-divorce-reform-for-families-with-children|archive-date=June 16, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The Council opposes legalized abortion, [[stem-cell research]] which involves the destruction of human embryos and funding thereof. (It advocates for research solely using [[adult stem cells]].) It opposes legal recognition of same-sex [[domestic partnership]]s in the form of [[Same-sex marriage|marriage]] or [[Civil unions in the United States|civil unions]].<ref name=FRCHawaii>[https://www.frcblog.com/2007/03/in-hawaii-coast-is-clear-from-civil-union-threat/ In Hawaii, Coast Is Clear from Civil Union Threat]. Tony Perkins, Family Research Council, March 1, 2007</ref> It formerly{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} opposed all forms of [[gambling]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Leonard|first=Andrew|title=Life, liberty and the right to play online poker|url=http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2007/11/15/online_internet_gambling|access-date=November 29, 2010|newspaper=[[Salon.com|Salon]]|date=November 15, 2007}}</ref> The Council has questioned whether humans are mainly or completely responsible for [[climate change]], and has opposed other [[Evangelicalism|evangelicals]] who accepted the [[scientific consensus on climate change|scientific consensus on it]].<ref>{{cite news|title=One-Size Politics Doesn't Fit All|newspaper=Christianity Today|date=April 27, 2007|url=http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/may/10.22.html|access-date=May 10, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070510102052/http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/may/10.22.html|archive-date=May 10, 2007|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Climate Change: An Evangelical Call to Action|url=http://christiansandclimate.org/statement|year=2012|access-date=August 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215203912/http://www.christiansandclimate.org/statement|archive-date=February 15, 2006|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Global warming gap among evangelicals widens|url=http://articles.cnn.com/2007-03-14/politics/evangelical.rift_1_global-warming-evangelicals-cizik?_s=PM:POLITICS|publisher=CNN|access-date=August 15, 2012|date=March 14, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406170849/http://articles.cnn.com/2007-03-14/politics/evangelical.rift_1_global-warming-evangelicals-cizik?_s=PM:POLITICS|archive-date=April 6, 2012|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=Szobody>{{cite news|last=Szobody|first=Ben|title=Young conservatives seek fixes for climate change|access-date=August 16, 2012|url=http://greenvilleonline.newspapers.com/search/#query=climate&ymd=2012-07-18&lnd=1&t=3765|newspaper=Greenville Online|date=July 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206012300/http://greenvilleonline.newspapers.com/search/#query=climate&ymd=2012-07-18&lnd=1&t=3765|archive-date=February 6, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===Statements on homosexuality===
The FRC maintains that "homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed", and asserts that it is "by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects."<ref name=FRCwebsite/><ref name=FRChomosexuality>{{cite web|title=Homosexuality|url=http://www.frc.org/homosexuality|access-date=January 14, 2018|url-status=live|archive-date=December 28, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228192103/http://www.frc.org/homosexuality}}</ref> The Council also asserts that "there is no convincing evidence that a homosexual identity is ever something genetic or inborn".<ref name=FRCwebsite>{{cite web|url=http://www.frc.org/human-sexuality|year=2012|publisher=Family Research Council|title=Human Sexuality|access-date=December 27, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121125012454/http://www.frc.org/human-sexuality|archive-date=November 25, 2012}}</ref> These positions are in opposition to [[Homosexuality and psychology|the consensus of mainstream psychological and medical experts]] that homosexuality is a normal, healthy variation of human behavior, and that sexual orientation is generally not chosen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Submission%20to%20the%20Church%20of%20England.pdf|date=October 31, 2007|access-date=July 8, 2010|title=Submission to the Church of England's Listening Exercise on Human Sexuality|archive-date=August 27, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100827104609/http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/pdf/Submission%20to%20the%20Church%20of%20England.pdf|url-status=dead|publisher=[[Royal College of Psychiatrists]]}}</ref><ref name=AppropriateResponse>{{cite web|title=Report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation|date=September 28, 2009|access-date=January 14, 2018|first1=Judith M.|last1=Glassgold|first2=Lee|last2=Beckstead|first3=Jack|last3=Drescher|author-link3=Jack Drescher|first4=Beverly|last4=Greene|first5=Robin Lin|last5=Miller|first6=Roger L.|last6=Worthington|first7=Clinton W.|last7=Anderson|url=http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/therapeutic-response.pdf|publisher=[[American Psychological Association]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615023708/http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/therapeutic-response.pdf|url-status=live|archive-date=June 15, 2010}}</ref><ref name=APAamicus>{{cite web|title=''Perry v. Schwarzenegger'' – Brief of the American Psychological Association, the California Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Association for Marriage and Family as Amici Curiae in Support of Plaintiff-Appellees|date=October 27, 2010|url=http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2010/10/27/amicus29.pdf|publisher=[[United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit]]|access-date=May 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141007061351/http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2010/10/27/amicus29.pdf|archive-date=October 7, 2014|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title="Therapies" to change sexual orientation lack medical justification and threaten health|url=http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6803&Itemid=1926|publisher=[[Pan American Health Organization]]|date=May 17, 2012|access-date=May 26, 2012|url-status=live|archive-date=May 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523040848/http://new.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6803&Itemid=1926|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Certain FRC statements and positions have been criticized by its opponents as based upon [[pseudoscience|pseudo/junk science]];<ref name=TNR>[https://newrepublic.com/minutes/145144/scott-pruitt-meeting-anti-gay-group Why is Scott Pruitt meeting with an anti-gay group?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115071622/https://newrepublic.com/minutes/145144/scott-pruitt-meeting-anti-gay-group |date=January 15, 2018 }}. Akin, Emily. ''[[The New Republic]]'', October 7, 2017.</ref><ref name=WaPoCapehart>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/violence-against-family-research-council-is-wrong/2012/08/16/1df607a0-e7b5-11e1-a3d2-2a05679928ef_blog.html Violence against Family Research Council is wrong] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217141833/https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/violence-against-family-research-council-is-wrong/2012/08/16/1df607a0-e7b5-11e1-a3d2-2a05679928ef_blog.html |date=February 17, 2018 }}. [[Jonathan Capehart]], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', August 16, 2012.</ref><ref name=MoJo/><ref name=Vice>Bess, Gabby. [https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/3k8qmw/uncovering-the-christian-think-tanks-behind-the-bogus-studies-on-gay-parenting Uncovering the Christian Think Tanks Behind the Bogus Studies on Gay Parenting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180115001642/https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/3k8qmw/uncovering-the-christian-think-tanks-behind-the-bogus-studies-on-gay-parenting |date=January 15, 2018 }}, ''[[Vice (magazine)|Vice]]'', February 16, 2017.</ref> according to ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'', the group has misrepresented data and mis-designed sociological studies in order to negatively depict LGBT people.<ref name="Wired">{{cite magazine|title=Trump's Transition Team is All Tied Up With Anti-Gay Pseudoscience|url=https://www.wired.com/2016/11/trumps-transition-team-tied-anti-gay-pseudoscience|last=Ellis|first=Emma Gray|magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]|date=November 30, 2016|access-date=January 14, 2018|archive-date=December 1, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201135847/https://www.wired.com/2016/11/trumps-transition-team-tied-anti-gay-pseudoscience}}</ref>

FRC also states that "[s]ympathy must be extended to those who struggle with unwanted same-sex attractions, and every effort should be made to assist such persons to overcome those attractions, as many already have".<ref name=FRChomosexuality/> Evidence on the effectiveness of [[sexual orientation change efforts]] is limited;<ref name=AppropriateResponse/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apa.org/about/policy/sexual-orientation.pdf|title=Appropriate Affirmative Responses to Sexual Orientation Distress and Change Efforts|publisher=[[American Psychological Association]]|date=August 5, 2009|access-date=January 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120511024946/http://www.apa.org/about/policy/sexual-orientation.pdf|archive-date=May 11, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> according to a 2009 publication from the American Psychological Association, "[there] are no studies of adequate scientific rigor to conclude whether or not recent [sexual orientation change efforts] do or do not work to change a person's sexual orientation."<ref name=AppropriateResponse/>

In 2012, Rob Schwartzwalder, then a senior vice president at FRC, wrote: "To love people who identify as gays or lesbians means to extend grace to them: to welcome them as friends, to care for them when ill, and to respect them as persons whose creation was ordained by the God of the universe and for whom the Son of God died. Such love will oppose attempts to legalize homosexual marriage, as to do so would vindicate a corruption of that which God intended. ...To love homosexuals means that believing churches cannot accept those practicing or advocating homosexuality as members, ministers, or leaders any more than persons living in any other kind of sexual sin."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frc.org/op-eds/on-love-homosexuality-and-sin-an-evangelical-proposal|title=On Love, Homosexuality, and Sin: An Evangelical Proposal|website=www.frc.org|access-date=January 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114183910/http://www.frc.org/op-eds/on-love-homosexuality-and-sin-an-evangelical-proposal|archive-date=January 14, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Jointly with [[Focus on the Family]], the Council submitted an [[amicus curiae|''amicus'' brief]] in ''[[Lawrence v. Texas]]'',<ref name=FRCamicus/> the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] case in which anti-sodomy laws were ruled unconstitutional on privacy grounds.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=Supreme Court Strikes Down Texas Law Banning Sodomy|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/politics/26WIRE-SODO.html|date=June 26, 2003|access-date=December 27, 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620020310/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/26/politics/supreme-court-strikes-down-texas-law-banning-sodomy.html|archive-date=June 20, 2017}}</ref> The summary of the ''amicus curiae'' brief declares that "[states] may discourage the 'evils' ... of sexual acts outside of marriage by means up to and including criminal prohibition" and that it is [[US Constitution|constitutionally permissible]] for Texas to "choose to protect marital intimacy by prohibiting same-sex 'deviate'{{ref|Alpha|a}} acts".<ref name=FRCamicus>{{cite web|url=http://www.frc.org/content/lawrence--garner-vs-texas-texas-amicus-brief|date=February 18, 2003|publisher=Family Research Council|title=Legal Brief: Lawrence & Garner v. Texas|access-date = December 27, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024015733/http://www.frc.org/content/lawrence--garner-vs-texas-texas-amicus-brief|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 24, 2008}}<br />Full text available from:<br />{{cite web|url=http://cdm16035.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16035coll2/id/41|title=Lawrence and Garner v. Texas, No. 02-102, Brief Amicus Curiae of the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family in Support of Respondent, February 18, 2003|publisher=The Fred Parks Law Library, [[South Texas College of Law]], Houston|date=February 18, 2003|access-date=January 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911120232/http://cdm16035.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16035coll2/id/41|url-status=live|archive-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref>

Similar positions have been advocated by representatives of the organization since ''Lawrence'' was decided in 2003. In February 2010, Family Research Council's senior researcher for policy studies, Peter Sprigg, stated on NBC's ''[[Hardball with Chris Matthews|Hardball]]'' that same-sex behavior should be outlawed and that "criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior" should be enforced.<ref>"CHRIS MATTHEWS: Do you think we should outlaw gay behavior?
:PETER SPRIGG: Well, I think certainly-
:MATTHEWS: I'm just asking you, should we outlaw gay behavior?
:SPRIGG: I think that the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which overturned the sodomy laws in this country, was wrongly decided. I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior.
:MATTHEWS: So we should outlaw gay behavior.
:SPRIGG: Yes."
February 2, 2010. Hardball, NBC News.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xEJPvQr9Bc statement at 8:37] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161125060416/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xEJPvQr9Bc |date=November 25, 2016}}, [http://www.nbcnews.com/id/35224225 NBC News transcript], nbcnews.com. Accessed November 8, 2022.</ref> Three months later, in May 2010, Sprigg publicly suggested that repealing the [[Don't Ask, Don't Tell]] policy would encourage molestation of heterosexual service members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/family-research-council-labeled-hate-group-by-splc-over-anti-gay-rhetoric.php?ref=tn|title=Family Research Council Labeled 'Hate Group' by SPLC Over Anti-Gay Rhetoric|publisher=Talking Points Memo|access-date=November 26, 2010}}</ref>

In November 2010, Perkins was asked about Sprigg's comments regarding the criminalization of same-sex behavior: he responded that criminalizing homosexuality is not a goal of Family Research Council.<ref name="Nov29Hardball">{{cite web|title=Perkins, Potok spar over hate group|url=http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/perkins-potok-spar-over-hate-group/17y86wzma|work=Hardball with Chris Matthews|publisher=MSNBC|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714123607/http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video/perkins-potok-spar-over-hate-group/17y86wzma|archive-date=July 14, 2011|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=perkinssortof>{{cite web|url=http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/30/tony-perkins-defends-family-research-council-sort-of|title=Tony Perkins Defends Family Research Council, Sort Of|publisher=Southern Poverty Law Center|access-date=November 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201052025/http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/30/tony-perkins-defends-family-research-council-sort-of/|archive-date=December 1, 2010|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Perkins repeated FRC's [[LGBT stereotypes#Pedophilia and predation|association of homosexuals with pedophilia]], stating: "If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children."<ref name="Nov29Hardball"/><ref name=perkinssortof/> Perkins' statements have been contradicted by mainstream social science research,<ref name="splcdebunk">Evelyn Schlatter and Robert Steinback, [http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/10-myths# 10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204104652/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/10-myths |date=December 4, 2010 }}, Southern Poverty Law Center; retrieved December 3, 2010.</ref> and the likelihood of child molestation by homosexuals and [[bisexuality|bisexuals]] has been found to be no higher than child molestation by [[heterosexuality|heterosexuals]];<ref name=Wired/><ref name=APA>{{cite web|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality, and bisexuality|url=http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx|publisher=[[American Psychological Association]]|access-date=November 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808032050/http://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx|archive-date=August 8, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=PsychologyToday/><ref name=MoJo/> as ''[[Newsweek]]'' put it, "[f]or decades, the [FRC] has smeared homosexuals in its publications, insinuating that gay people are more likely to sexually abuse children" and an analysis by [[John Aravosis]] {{Who|date=November 2022}} concluded that FRC "cherry-picks and distorts evidence as part of a deliberate campaign to smear the LGBT community."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/anti-lgbt-hate-groups-transgender-military-ban-trump-642218|newspaper=[[Newsweek]]|title=Transgender Military Ban: The Rise of Anti-LGBT Hate Groups in Trump's White House|first=Tom|last=Porter|date=July 26, 2017|access-date=January 14, 2017|url-status=live|archive-date=July 27, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727085610/http://www.newsweek.com/anti-lgbt-hate-groups-transgender-military-ban-trump-642218}}</ref> Some scientists whose work is cited by the socially conservative group the [[American College of Pediatricians]] – which was created following the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]' endorsement of adoption by same-sex couples and to which FRC points for evidence supporting its positions – have said the organization has distorted or misrepresented their work<ref name=Pinto>{{cite news|last=Pinto|first=Nick|title=University of Minnesota professor's research hijacked|url=http://www.citypages.com/news/university-of-minnesota-professors-research-hijacked-6725473|access-date=January 13, 2017|newspaper=[[Minneapolis City Pages]]|date=May 26, 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101117131203/http://www.citypages.com/2010-05-26/news/university-of-minnesota-professor-s-research-hijacked|archive-date=November 17, 2010}}</ref> and the organization has been criticized by ''Psychology Today'' for making "false statements ... that have the potential to harm LGBT youth".<ref name=PsychologyToday>[[Jack Turban|Turban, Jack]]. [https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/political-minds/201705/the-american-college-pediatricians-is-anti-lgbt-group The American College of Pediatricians is an Anti-LGBT Group], ''[[Psychology Today]]'', May 8, 2017.</ref> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) designated the FRC as a hate group in its Winter 2010 ''Intelligence Report''.<ref name=SPLCdesignation/> ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' reported that "The Southern Poverty Law Center's classification of FRC as a hate group stems from FRC's more than decade-long insistence that gay people are more likely to molest children. ...Research from non-ideological outfits is actually firm in concluding the opposite."<ref name=MoJo>Serwer, Adam, [https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2012/08/perkins-family-research-council-shooting-southern-poverty-law/ What the Right Gets Wrong About the FRC Shooting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614050609/https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2012/08/perkins-family-research-council-shooting-southern-poverty-law/ |date=June 14, 2018 }}, ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'', August 17, 2012.</ref>

In 2017, at the council-sponsored [[Values Voter Summit]], a tote bag was distributed to all attendees that included a copy of a flyer entitled "The Health Hazards of Homosexuality" written by [[MassResistance]], which the [[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]] has also designated as a hate group.<ref>{{cite news|title='Hazards of Homosexuality' Flier Distributed at Values Voter Summit|first=John Paul|last=Brammer|date=October 14, 2017|access-date=January 14, 2018|newspaper=[[NBC News]]|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hazards-homosexuality-flier-distributed-values-voter-summit-n810471|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114073745/https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/hazards-homosexuality-flier-distributed-values-voter-summit-n810471|archive-date=January 14, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

An ''amicus'' brief submitted in relation to ''[[United States v. Windsor]]'' (which struck down part of the [[Defense of Marriage Act]]) argued that DOMA did not discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation,<ref name=AmicusWindsor>{{cite web|title=Brief ''Amicus Curiae'' of the Family Research Council in Support of Respondent Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group Addressing the Merits and Supporting Reversal|url=https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v2/12-307_resp_amcu_merits_rev_frc.authcheckdam.pdf|publisher=Family Research Council|date=January 24, 2013|access-date=January 14, 2018|via=[[SCOTUSblog]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412205250/http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/supreme_court_preview/briefs-v2/12-307_resp_amcu_merits_rev_frc.authcheckdam.pdf|archive-date=April 12, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> and their ''amicus'' brief in ''[[Obergefell v. Hodges]]'' argued against same-sex marriage.<ref name=AmicusObergefell>{{cite web|url=http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14-556-bsac-Family-Research-Council.pdf|title=Brief ''Amicus Curiae'' of the Family Research Council in Support of Respondents and Affirmance|publisher=Family Research Council|date=March 31, 2015|via=[[SCOTUSblog]]|access-date=January 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118024043/http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14-556-bsac-Family-Research-Council.pdf|archive-date=November 18, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> An article written by Travis Weber, the director of the Council's Center for Religious Liberty, was highly critical of both Supreme Court decisions.<ref>{{cite web|last=Weber|first=Travis S.|url=http://www.frc.org/criticalanalysis-obergefellhodges|title=Critical Analysis of ''Obergefell v. Hodges''|publisher=Family Research Council|year=2015|access-date=January 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180114080939/http://www.frc.org/criticalanalysis-obergefellhodges|archive-date=January 14, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===Same-sex marriage cases===
The FRC, on January 28, 2013, issued an ''amicus'' brief in support of the [[Proposition 8]] and the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] cases before the Supreme Court,<ref name=AmicusWindsor/> arguing for the court to uphold DOMA banning federal recognition of same-sex unions and Proposition 8 banning gay marriage in California.<ref>{{cite news|last=McVeigh|first=Karen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/conservatives-supreme-court-doma-unconstitutional|title=Obama to support gay couples' supreme court challenge to California's Prop 8|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=February 28, 2013|access-date=May 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525162828/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/28/conservatives-supreme-court-doma-unconstitutional|archive-date=May 25, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in ''United States v. Windsor'' that the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutionally discriminated against gay and lesbian couples, and in ''[[Hollingsworth v. Perry]]'' that Proposition 8's proponents had no standing to defend the law, leaving in place a lower-court ruling overturning the ban.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}

==Publishing and lobbying activities==
[[File:Family Research Council Building.jpg|thumb|Family Research Council Building in [[Washington, D.C.]]]]
Family Research Council is a member of [[ProtectMarriage.com]], a coalition formed to sponsor [[California Proposition 8 (2008)|California Proposition 8]] to restrict marriage to opposite-sex couples only, which passed in 2008 (but was later [[Perry v. Schwarzenegger|struck down as unconstitutional by a federal court in California]]).<ref>{{cite news |title=Coalition seeks male-female marriage definition/New ballot push for constitutional amendment|first=John M.|last=Hubbell|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=April 28, 2005|page=B3}}</ref>

===Justice Sunday===
{{main|Justice Sunday (conservative Christian event)}}
[[Justice Sunday (conservative Christian event)|Justice Sunday]] was the name for three religious conferences organized by FRC and [[Focus on the Family]] in 2005 and 2006. According to FRC, the purpose of the events was to "request an end to filibusters of judicial nominees that were based, at least in part, on the nominees' religious views or imputed inability to decide cases on the basis of the law regardless of their beliefs."<ref>[http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PV05H01 Justice Sunday II: A Special Note From Executive Vice President of FRC, Chuck Donovan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809213417/http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PV05H01 |date=August 9, 2007 }}, frc.org; retrieved May 6, 2015.</ref>

===Values Voter Summit===
{{Main|Values Voter Summit}}
Every fall, FRC Action (the political action group affiliated with FRC) holds an annual [[summit (meeting)|summit]] composed for conservative Christian activists and evangelical voters in [[Washington, D.C.]] The summit has been a place for social conservatives across the nation to hear Republican presidential hopefuls' platforms. Since 2007 a straw poll has been taken as a means of providing an early prediction of which candidate will win the endorsement of Christian conservatives.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/presidential-hopefuls-highlight-values-to-christian-conservatives-29775/ |title=Presidential Hopefuls Highlight 'Values' to Christian Conservatives |date=October 20, 2007 |last=Vu |first=Michelle |newspaper=The Christian Post |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130102043700/http://www.christianpost.com/article/20071020/29775_Presidential_Hopefuls_Highlight_'Values'_to_Christian_Conservatives.htm |archive-date=2013-01-02 |access-date=2021-12-13 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Ugandan Resolution===
In 2010, FRC paid $25,000 to congressional lobbyists for what they described as "Res.1064 Ugandan Resolution Pro-homosexual promotion" in a lobbying disclosure report.<ref name=disclosure>{{cite web|last=Tripodi|first=Paul|title=Lobbying Report|url=http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/pdfform.aspx?id=300256072|work=Lobbying Disclosure|publisher=US House of Representatives|access-date=August 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130408133830/http://disclosures.house.gov/ld/pdfform.aspx?id=300256072|archive-date=April 8, 2013|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The [[United States House of Representatives|US House of Representatives]] resolution condemned the [[Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill]],<ref name=HR1064>{{cite web|title=H.Res.1064|url=http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr1064/text|publisher=OpenCongress|access-date=August 16, 2012|author=US House of Representatives|date=February 3, 2010|quote=Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the "Anti-Homosexuality Bill, 2009" under consideration by the Parliament of Uganda, that would impose long term imprisonment and the death penalty for certain acts, threatens the protection of fundamental human rights, and for other purposes.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100412185245/http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hr1064/text|archive-date=April 12, 2010|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> a bill which, among other things, would have imposed either the death penalty or life imprisonment for sexual relations between persons of the same sex.<ref name=":1">{{cite web |url=http://nationalpress.typepad.com/files/bill-no-18-anti-homosexuality-bill-2009.pdf |title=Bill No. 18 |date=2009 |website=nationalpress.typepad.com |access-date=October 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120619134822/http://nationalpress.typepad.com/files/bill-no-18-anti-homosexuality-bill-2009.pdf |archive-date=June 19, 2012 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref name=Weigel>{{cite web|last=Weigel|first=David|title=Family Research Council explains: It lobbied for changes to Uganda resolution|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/06/family_research_council_explai.html|work=Right Now|access-date=August 16, 2012|date=June 4, 2010}}</ref><ref name=McEwan>{{cite web|last=McEwan|first=Alvin|title=Family Research Council evades regarding Ugandan anti-gay bill lobbying efforts|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alvin-mcewen/family-research-council-e_b_602594.html|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=August 16, 2012|date=June 7, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429234215/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alvin-mcewen/family-research-council-e_b_602594.html|archive-date=April 29, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=Melloy>{{cite web|last=Melloy|first=Kilian|title=FRC Opposes U.S. Resolution Against Ugandan 'Kill Gays' Law|url=http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=106538|work=Edge|location=Boston, MA|access-date=August 16, 2012|date=June 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605142700/http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=106538|archive-date=June 5, 2010|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Following exposure of the lobbying contribution in June 2010, FRC issued a statement denying that they were trying to kill the bill, but rather that they wanted to change the language of the bill "to remove sweeping and inaccurate assertions that homosexual conduct is internationally recognized as a fundamental human right." They further stated, "FRC does not support the Uganda bill, and does not support the death penalty for homosexuality – nor any other penalty which would have the effect of inhibiting compassionate pastoral, psychological, and medical care and treatment for those who experience same-sex attractions or who engage in homosexual conduct".<ref name=Montopoli>{{cite web|last=Montopoli|first=Brian|title=Family Research Council Lobbied Congress on Resolution Denouncing Ugandan Anti-Gay Bill|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006856-503544.html|work=Political Hotsheet|publisher=CBS News|access-date=August 16, 2012|date=June 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822131816/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006856-503544.html|archive-date=August 22, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The Ugandan Resolution was revived by Uganda's President [[Yoweri Museveni|Museveni]] in 2012. On 1 August 2014, however, the Constitutional Court of Uganda ruled the act invalid on procedural grounds.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Caplan-Bricker|first=Nora|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/110791/uganda-revives-its-favorite-distraction-anti-gay-legislation|title=Uganda Revives Its Favorite Distraction: Anti-Gay Legislation|magazine=[[The New Republic]]|date=December 5, 2012|access-date=May 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150525161703/http://www.newrepublic.com/article/110791/uganda-revives-its-favorite-distraction-anti-gay-legislation|archive-date=May 25, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

The FRC used one of Museveni's speeches in an e-mail to its supporters praising Uganda's commitment to Christian faith and "national repentance" around the time that he reintroduced the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. The speech did not refer to homosexuality specifically, but did mention "sexual immorality" among the sins for which Ugandans must repent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/636533-for-the-sins-of-uganda-i-repent-museveni.html|title=For the sins of Uganda, I repent – Museveni|publisher=newvision.co.ug|access-date=May 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123222646/http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/636533-for-the-sins-of-uganda-i-repent-museveni.html|archive-date=November 23, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

==Controversies and criticism==
===2010 listing as a hate group by SPLC===
The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC) designated FRC as a hate group in the winter 2010 issue of its magazine, ''Intelligence Report''. Aside from statements made earlier in the year by Sprigg and Perkins (see [[#Statements on homosexuality|Statements on homosexuality]]), the SPLC described FRC as a "font of anti-gay propaganda throughout its history".<ref>{{cite news|last=Dutton|first=Nick|title=Shooting sparks controversy over 'hate' designation for conservative group|url=http://wtvr.com/2012/08/18/shooting-sparks-controversy-over-hate-designation-for-conservative-group|access-date=August 18, 2012|publisher=wtvr.com|date=August 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120114627/http://wtvr.com/2012/08/18/shooting-sparks-controversy-over-hate-designation-for-conservative-group/|archive-date=January 20, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name=splcreport>{{cite web|title=18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda|url=http://splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners|publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center|SPLC]]|access-date=November 28, 2010|author=Evelyn Schlatter|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129185413/http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners|archive-date=November 29, 2010}}</ref>

As evidence, the SPLC cited a 1999 publication by FRC, ''Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex With Boys'', which stated: "one of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the 'prophets' of a new sexual order."<ref name=splcreport/><ref>{{cite news|last=Ariosto|first=David|title=SPLC draws conservative ire|url=http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/us/us-southern-poverty-law-center-profile/index.html|date=August 17, 2012|publisher=CNN|access-date=August 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818215409/http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/us/us-southern-poverty-law-center-profile/index.html|archive-date=August 18, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The report said FRC senior research fellows Tim Dailey and Peter Sprigg (2001) had "pushed false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia".<ref name=splcreport/><ref name=SPLCdesignation>{{cite news|last=Lengell|first=Sean|title=Family Research Council labeled a 'hate group'|url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/24/frc-labeled-a-hate-group|access-date=August 19, 2012|newspaper=The Washington Times|date=November 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822221125/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/nov/24/frc-labeled-a-hate-group/|archive-date=August 22, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

FRC President Tony Perkins called the "hate" designation a political attack on FRC by a "liberal organization".<ref name="WaPo hate">{{cite news|last=Thompson|first=Krissah|title='Hate group' designation angers same-sex marriage opponents|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR2010112405573.html|access-date=November 25, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=November 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203030618/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/24/AR2010112405573.html|archive-date=December 3, 2010|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> On December 15, 2010, FRC ran an open letter as an advertisement in two Washington, D.C., newspapers disputing the SPLC's action; in a press release, FRC called the allegation "intolerance pure and simple" and said it was dedicated to upholding "Judeo-Christian moral views, including marriage as the union of a man and a woman".<ref>{{cite news|title=FRC, Members of Congress, Governors, and Conservative Leaders Release Open Letter Calling for Civil Debate, End to Character Assassination|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/frc-members-of-congress-governors-and-conservative-leaders-release-open-letter-calling-for-civil-debate-end-to-character-assassination-111917234.html|agency=PR Newswire|access-date=August 17, 2012|date=December 15, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709133626/http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/frc-members-of-congress-governors-and-conservative-leaders-release-open-letter-calling-for-civil-debate-end-to-character-assassination-111917234.html|archive-date=July 9, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In response, SPLC spokesman Mark Potok emphasized the factual evidence upon which the SPLC had taken the step of making the designation.<ref name="splc_dec_2010">[http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/12/15/splc-responds-to-attack-by-frc-conservative-republicans "SPLC Responds to Attack by FRC, Conservative Republicans"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822093037/http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/12/15/splc-responds-to-attack-by-frc-conservative-republicans/ |date=August 22, 2012 }}, December 5, 2010.</ref>

A shooting incident in the lobby of FRC headquarters in 2012 (see above) prompted further comments on the SPLC's 'hate group' listing. [[Dana Milbank]], columnist for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', referred to the incident as "a madman's act" for which the SPLC should not be blamed, but called its classification of FRC as a hate group "reckless" and said that "it's absurd to put the group, as the law center does, in the same category as [[Aryan Nations]], [[Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]], [[Stormfront (website)|Stormfront]] and the [[Westboro Baptist Church]]."<ref name=Milbank>{{cite news|last1=Milbank|first1=Dana|title=Dana Milbank: Hateful speech on hate groups|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html|access-date=21 December 2017|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102100409/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-hateful-speech-on-hate-groups/2012/08/16/70a60ac6-e7e8-11e1-8487-64e4b2a79ba8_story.html|archive-date=January 2, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>[http://www.advocate.com/crime/2012/08/17/washington-post-columnists-continue-blaming-hate-group-classification-frc-shooting ''Washington Post'' columnists continue blaming hate group classification for FRC shooting] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821142241/http://www.advocate.com/crime/2012/08/17/washington-post-columnists-continue-blaming-hate-group-classification-frc-shooting |date=August 21, 2012 }}, advocate.com; accessed May 12, 2018.</ref> David Sessions, writing for ''[[the Daily Beast]]'', noted that FRC's hostile, false depiction of LGBT people invited strong pushback; "the FRC cannot wage an all-out rhetorical war against the '[[gay agenda]]' and then accuse its critics of being too harsh."<ref name=DailyBeast>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-the-family-research-council-really-a-hate-group?ref=scroll Is the Family Research Council Really a Hate Group?]. ''[[The Daily Beast]]'', 16 August 2012</ref>

[[Tufts University]] political science professor Jeffrey Berry described himself as "not comfortable" with the designation: "There's probably some things that have been said by one or two individuals that qualify as hate speech. But overall, it's not seen as a hate group."<ref name=CNNcontroversy>{{cite news|last=Pearson|first=Michael|title=Shooting sparks controversy over 'hate' designation for conservative group|publisher=CNN|date=August 17, 2012|url=http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/17/shooting-sparks-controversy-over-hate-designation-for-conservative-group|access-date=August 29, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822022430/http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/17/shooting-sparks-controversy-over-hate-designation-for-conservative-group/|archive-date=August 22, 2012|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Journalist [[Adam Serwer]] of ''Mother Jones'' argued that the description, while subjective, was justified by the "FRC's record of purveying stereotypes, prejudice, and junk science as a justification for public policy that would deny gays and lesbians equal rights and criminalize their conduct."<ref name=MoJo/>

===Tax status===
In 2020, the FRC asked the IRS to consider it as an “association of churches,” and the [[Internal Revenue Service]] (IRS) approved that status change. As part of this request, the FRC had to claim that it conducts weddings, baptisms and funerals. The FRC continues to be a nonprofit [[501(c)(3) organization]], but as a church, it is shielded from public inspection as it no longer must submit an annual [[Form 990]] to the IRS.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Suozzo |first=Andrea |title=Right-Wing Think Tank Family Research Council Is Now a Church in Eyes of the IRS |url=https://www.propublica.org/article/family-research-council-irs-church-status |access-date=2022-07-19 |website=ProPublica |date=July 11, 2022 |language=en}}</ref>

===George Alan Rekers===
[[George Rekers]] was a founding board member in 1983. In May 2010, Rekers employed a male prostitute as a travel companion for a two-week vacation in Europe.<ref name="Busted">{{Cite news|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-13/news/how-george-alan-rekers-and-his-rent-boy-got-busted-by-new-times|date=May 13, 2010|first1=Brandon K.|last1=Thorp|first2=Penn|last2=Bullock|publisher=MiamiNewTimes|title=How George Alan Rekers and his Rent-boy got Busted by New Times|access-date=March 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229080313/http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-13/news/how-george-alan-rekers-and-his-rent-boy-got-busted-by-new-times/|archive-date=December 29, 2014|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="RekersRentBoy">{{cite news|title=Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with "rent boy"|author=Penn Bullock|author2=Brandon K. Thorp|newspaper=[[Miami New Times]]|date=2010-05-04|url=http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/1|access-date=March 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729185115/http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05-06/news/christian-right-leader-george-rekers-takes-vacation-with-rent-boy/1/|archive-date=July 29, 2013|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Rekers denied any inappropriate conduct and suggestions that he was gay. The male escort told CNN he had given Rekers "sexual massages" while traveling together in Europe.<ref name="CNN7may2010">{{Cite episode|title=Sex Scandal Accusations and Denials|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAiIXb9Aql0|series=[[AC-360]]|credits=[[Anderson Cooper]]|network=[[CNN]]|airdate=May 7, 2010|minutes=1:10 and 3:38|access-date=March 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826131937/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAiIXb9Aql0|archive-date=August 26, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="PinkNews">{{Cite news|url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/05/13/anti-gay-rights-activist-resigns-over-holiday-with-male-prostitute|date=May 13, 2010|work=The Pink Paper|title=Anti-gay activist George Rekers resigns over holiday with male prostitute|access-date=March 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731152558/http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/05/13/anti-gay-rights-activist-resigns-over-holiday-with-male-prostitute/|archive-date=July 31, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Rekers subsequently resigned from the board of the [[National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality]] (NARTH).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/mayweb-only/29-32.0.html|title=Psychologist Resigns from NARTH after Gay Prostitute's Claims|first=Sarah Pulliam|last=Bailey|website=Christianity Today|date=May 12, 2010 }}</ref>

===Josh Duggar===
On June 18, 2013, it was announced that [[Josh Duggar]] of the television show ''[[19 Kids and Counting]]'' would serve as the [[executive director]] of FRC Action, the non-profit and tax-exempt legislative action arm of Family Research Council.<ref name="upi.com"/> FRC President Tony Perkins said at the time that the hiring was aimed to tap into the popularity of Duggar's television show, and that "The big part of Josh's focus is going to be building our grass-roots across the country."<ref name=WP_2013/> Published reports listed Duggar as a lobbyist for the group.<ref>{{cite news |title=Josh Duggar, a former reality TV star, gets 12 years in a child pornography case |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101432829/josh-duggar-child-pornography-sentence-19-kids-and-counting |access-date=10 September 2023 |agency=Associated Press |publisher=NPR |date=26 May 2022}}</ref>

Duggar resigned on May 21, 2015, when a scandal involving his [[Josh Duggar#Molestation scandal and pornography conviction|past molestation]] of five underage girls – including some of his sisters – became public knowledge. In reference to Duggar's resignation, Perkins said "Josh believes that the situation will make it difficult for him to be effective in his current work."<ref>{{cite news|title=Josh Duggar Admits Molestation Resigns from Family Research Council|url=https://www.tmz.com/2015/05/21/josh-duggar-admits-molestation-statement-resigns-confessed-sex-scandal-wife|access-date=May 22, 2015|work=TMZ|date=May 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522224636/http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/21/josh-duggar-admits-molestation-statement-resigns-confessed-sex-scandal-wife/|archive-date=May 22, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Bombshell Duggar Police Report: Jim Bob Duggar Didn't Report Son Josh's Alleged Sex Offenses For More Than a Year|url=http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/bombshell-duggar-police-report-jim-bob-duggar-didn-t-report-son-josh-s-alleged-sex-offenses-for-more-than-a-year-58906|access-date=May 22, 2015|work=In Touch Weekly|date=May 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113025542/https://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/bombshell-duggar-police-report-jim-bob-duggar-didn-t-report-son-josh-s-alleged-sex-offenses-for-more-than-a-year-58906/|archive-date=November 13, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Josh Duggar apologizes amid molestation allegations, quits Family Research Council|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/05/21/josh-duggar-apologizes-resigns-from-family-research-council-amid-molestation-allegations|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=May 22, 2015|access-date=May 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522040032/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2015/05/21/josh-duggar-apologizes-resigns-from-family-research-council-amid-molestation-allegations/|archive-date=May 22, 2015|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

==List of presidents==
* [[Jerry Regier|Gerald P. Regier]] (1984–1988)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frc.org/historymission|title=Family Research Council|website=www.frc.org|access-date=March 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180315220336/http://www.frc.org/historymission|archive-date=March 15, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Gary Bauer]] (1988–1999)
* [[Kenneth L. Connor]] (2000–2003)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theconnorfirm.com/Attorneys/Kenneth-L-Connor.shtml|title=Kenneth L. Connor - Connor & Connor, LLC - Augusta Georgia|website=Connor & Connor, LLC|access-date=March 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180318054341/https://www.theconnorfirm.com/Attorneys/Kenneth-L-Connor.shtml|archive-date=March 18, 2018|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* [[Tony Perkins (politician)|Tony Perkins]] (2003–present)

==See also==
{{Portal|Conservatism}}
* [[Christian Coalition of America]]
* [[Christian right]]
* [[Christian Voice (United States)]]
* [[LGBT rights opposition]]
* [[Moral Majority]]

==Notes==
:{{note|Alpha|a}} The terms "deviate" and "deviant" sex were used historically in laws such as the one struck down by ''Lawrence v. Texas''.<ref name=NYT/>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official|https://frc.org}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091005224411/http://ministrywatch.com/profile/family-research-council.aspx Profile] at Ministry Watch

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