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Family Research Council (FRC)
- Updated: April 21, 2023
The Family Research Council is a far-right evangelical activist and lobbying group claiming to promote family values. In fact, it lobbies against LGBTQ rights using homophobic and transphobic discredited research, falsely and harmfully conflates being gay with pedophilia, and spreads harmful inaccurate claims.
In 2020 the FRC filed an application to change its status to an āassociation of churches,ā despite describing itself as āA nonprofit research and educational organizationā on its web site. According to ProPublica, the FRC is āno longer required to file a public tax returnā¦ [reveal] key staffer salaries, the names of board members and related organizations,ā or ālarge payments to independent contractors and grants the organization has made. Unlike with other charities, IRS investigators canāt initiate an audit on a church unless a high-level Treasury Department official has approved the investigation.ā
FRCās anti-LGBTQ record:
āDescribes the Equality Act, which would provide comprehensive protections from discrimination for LGBTQ people and expand protections for women, people of color and people of faith in various areas of public life as āunequal, unfair, and unjust.ā FRC baselessly claims that the Equality Act would āmassively overhaul our federal civil rights framework in order to mandate special privileges for sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI), expand abortion access, and gut religious liberty,ā and that it āwould be a disaster for all Americans.ā
āFiled an amicus brief to the Supreme Court against marriage equality in support of Californiaās Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, both since nullified.
āPublishes brochures, videos, and other materials for parents and other school anti-trans activists, such as the 2016 āParents Guide to the Transgender Movement in Education,ā which misgenders trans people and encourages parents to oppose gender-affirming care backed by every major medical association as best practice, lifesaving care; supports so-called āconversion therapy,ā and encourages children to ignore classmatesā pronouns, despite research showing that using accurate pronouns improves mental health. FRC state chapter affiliates follow the lead; the Minnesota Family Council, for example, offers to send parents a printed, bound āParent Resource Guide…on the transgender trend.ā
āDefended the Parents Action League, a Minnesota group that lobbied the Anoka-Hennepin school district against implementing anti-bullying policies under the false belief that the policies target students with āhomosexual propagandaā and result in them being āindoctrinated in homosexuality.ā FRC says that bullying isnāt the problem, anti-bullying policies are. The groupās True Tolerance campaign contends that school strategies to address bullying are really just cover for āactivists who want to promote homosexuality in kidsā to ācapture the hearts and minds of our children at their earliest stages.ā
āBaselessly claimed, in a document written by Robert Knight and Robert York titled āHomosexual Behavior and Pedophilia,ā that āone of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the āprophetsā of a new sexual order.ā The document also claimed that the āhomosexual rights movement has tried to distance itself from pedophilia, but only for public relations purposes.ā SPLC notes that the booklet has since disappeared from FRCās website, but the organization has not withdrawn the claims it made. Former reality television star Josh Duggar, who directed FRCās lobbying arm FRC Action, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in May 2022 after being convicted of child pornography possession that a Homeland Security investigator described as among the most abusive and horrific he had ever seen. Duggar was also charged with child molestation for abusing five underage girls, including four of his sisters.
āPromotes the āex-gayā movement as a way to combat LGBTQ civil rights measures and refutes the claims of victims of abusive, so-called āconversion therapy.ā FRC claims sexual orientation can be changed, but only from āgayā to āstraight,ā and claims that there is no scientific proof that is āmore harmful that other forms of therapy.ā So-called āconversion therapyā is a discredited practice and has been denounced by every major medical and psychological association in the U.S. As of February 2022, at least 20 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and more than 100 municipalities have banned this harmful practice on anyone under 18 years of age. In December 2021, Canada and France also banned the discredited practice.
See: Tony Perkins
The GLAAD Accountability Project catalogs anti-LGBTQ rhetoric and discriminatory actions of politicians, commentators, organization heads, religious leaders, and legal figures, who have used their platforms, influence and power to spread misinformation and harm LGBTQ people.
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