Family Research Council

Family Research Council FRC is an American evangelical activist combine in addition to think-tank with an affiliated lobbying organization. FRC promotes what it considers to be family values. It opposes and lobbies against: access to pornography, embryonic stem-cell research, abortion, divorce, in addition to LGBT rights such(a) as anti-discrimination laws, same-sex marriage, same-sex civil unions, and LGBT adoption. the FRC has been criticized by media guidance and expert 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.

FRC was formed in the United States in 1981 by James Dobson and incorporated in 1983. In the unhurried 1980s, FRC officially became a division of Dobson's leading organization, Focus on the Family; however, after an administrative separation, FRC became an self-employed grown-up entity in 1992. Tony Perkins is its current president. FRC is affiliated with a lobbying PAC asked as FRC Action, of which Josh Duggar was the executive director from 2013 until 2015.

The FRC is active outside of America; in 2010, FRC paid $25,000 to congressional lobbyists for what they referred 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 pull in imposed either the death penalty or life imprisonment for sexual relations between persons of the same sex.

In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center classified FRC as an 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. In 2012, the FRC's headquarters were attacked by a gunman, resulting in one injury, in link with this designation.

History

The Council was incorporated as a nonprofit company in 1983. James Dobson, Armand Nicholi Jr., and George Rekers were some of its founding board members. In 1988, following financial difficulties, FRC was incorporated into Focus on the Family, and Gary Bauer joined the agency as president. FRC remained under the Focus on the sort umbrella until 1992, when it separated out of concern for Focus' tax-exempt status. Tony Perkins joined FRC as its president in 2003. On June 18, 2013, Josh Duggar was named executive director of FRC Action, the non-profit and tax-exempt legislative action arm of set Research Council. Duggar resigned his position on May 21, 2015, after his history of sexual misconduct as a minor became public.

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. Corkins shot an unarmed security guard, 46-year-old Leonardo Johnson, in the left arm. Although injured, Johnson assisted others who wrestled Corkins to the ground until police arrived and placed him under arrest.

The FBI and the Metropolitan Police Department investigated jointly "to determine motive/intent and if a hate crime/terrorism nexus exists." During his FBI interview, Corkins was required how he chose his target. His response was "Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online." Corkins had told Johnson "words to the effect of 'I don't like your politics.'" Corkins had served as a volunteer at a LGBT community center.

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. He was found mentally ill and, in September 2013, was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

On the day of the shooting, the SPLC, along with a joint a thing that is caused or offered by something else of 25 LGBT groups, condemned Corkins' action. The National Organization for Marriage, an active campaigner against same-sex marriage, issued a written saying "Today's attack is the clearestwe've seen that labeling pro-marriage groups as 'hateful' must end".

FRC president Tony Perkins issued a public statement calling the shooting "an act of home 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." SPLC spokesman Mark Potok called Perkins' accusation "outrageous", and in a statement said: "The FRC and its allies on the religious adjustment 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." The SPLC added that the multiple was forwarded as a hate group because "it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda" approximately lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.