In February, Vicky Hartzler received the True Blue Award from Family Research Council Action and Focus on the Family Action. In her press release, Hartzler said:

I am honored to receive this award. As someone who has stood for pro-family issues and for the defense of life, I am humbled to be recognized for efforts to strengthen the American family.

Today we have one more example about the pro-family values of the Family Research Council.

Here is what was on FMR website Thursday.

In the aftermath of horrible tragedies like Newtown, the government desperately wants to do something–even if that something is the wrong thing. There seems to be this notion, at least among liberals, that more laws will protect us–but as we all witnessed in Boston, that isn’t necessarily the case. The government can’t make us safer until it recognizes that the problem isn’t the instruments of violence–but the environment of it. Stronger background checks wouldn’t have prevented the deaths of three people at the finish line on Monday, any more than it would have stopped Floyd Corkins from walking into our lobby and shooting Leo Johnson.

If Congress wants to stop these tragedies, then it has to address the government’s own hostility to the institution of the family and organizations that can address the real problem: the human heart. As I’ve said before, America doesn’t need gun control, it needs self-control. And a Congress that actively discourages it–through abortion, family breakdown, sexual liberalism, or religious hostility–is only compounding the problem.

So, Boston and Newtown is the result of abortion, family breakdown, sexual liberalism and religious hostility.

Any self-respecting person would be embarrassed to receive a reward from such a group.

Representative Hartzler should return that award.

What kind of odds you want to lay me that Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, subscribes to the newsletter of the far-right Family Research Center (FRC)? I’m laying my money down only if I get to bet that she does, but I’ll give you whatever odds you like. And on the assumption that I’m correct, she’s been hearing that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) currently in Congress and being pushed by Obama, will “impose homosexuality” in workplaces.

No, the FRC doesn’t claim that straight employees will be forced to watch gay porn until they convert to the LGBT lifestyle. But it does claim that businesses, even religious businesses, would be forced to hire gays. The newsletter points out that “[t]his law would punish anyone in the workplace who dares oppose homosexual behavior, cross-dressing and other unhealthy behaviors” and that Obama is trying to “impose homosexuality and silence Christianity in workplaces”–even to the point of forcing workers to remove those offensive (to gays) Bibles from their desks.

Such an imagination these folks have.

The legislation would not force anyone to be hired. It would only mean that it would be illegal “to fire, refuse to hire, or fail to promote employees simply based on sexual orientation,” as it is currently illegal to do in cases of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Additionally, as the Human Rights Campaign points out, current ENDA legislation “exempts small businesses, religious organizations and the military.“

But do you think Cunningham will ponder those fine points of the law once she hears from the FRC? Bear in mind that at the Educational Policy Conference of the Constitutional Coalition last winter, she spoke on the topic “the homosexual agenda in our public schools” and introduced her good friend State Rep. Sally Kern of Oklahoma, who:

achieved brief national notoriety when Ellen DeGeneres played a tape of Kern saying things like:

You know why they’re trying to get early childhood education? They want to get our young children into the government schools so they can indoctrinate them. …. And they’re going after our young children, as young as two years of age, to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is an acceptable lifestyle.”

Ooh, earth to Sally Kern and Jane Cunningham.

And don’t try to tell me I lost that bet.

Via DailyKos, we learn that Robin Carnahan has made the hit list of FRC Action (the “legislative action” arm of the Family Research Council) at the Values Voters Summit.  The Christofacists think that she might be vulnerable in her bid for the Senate because groups that support keeping a woman’s right to choose legal also donate heavily to her campaign.  I’m betting that Missourians aren’t really that backward — particularly when the opposition is that well-known purveyer of “monkey” humor and anti-Medicare crusader, Roy Blunt.  

Speaking of Blunt, FRC Action is also polling its membership over the issue of which particularly inept Republicans need special help the most; guess which Missourian is included on the list:

…FRC Action asks attendees which of four incumbent Republicans it should “save” from the Left: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.), and Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the last of whom is running for Senate.

I have to say that Blunt has found his rightful place in this august company — although even he might have to strain a bit to merit comparison to the main luminary in this bundle of crazy, Michele Bachmann. She, after all, is the real thing, whereas Blunt seems just a tad more cynical, a plodding, corporate-owned drudge putting in some overtime as a wannabe comedian in order to jolly up the fringe loonies that now constitute almost the entire Republican party membership.