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A progressive religious group on Tuesday delivered to MSNBC 20,000 signatures from people who want the cable news channel to stop inviting (FRC) President Tony Perkins to serve as a guest commentator on its programs.

began the petition drive about a month ago. The group describes itself as 鈥渁n online community of tens of thousands of citizens motivated by faith to take action on the pressing moral issues of our time,鈥� including poverty, human rights and 鈥渉ate speech and misinformation in the media pertaining to people of faith.鈥�

Perkins is an anti-gay hardliner who has said that pedophilia is 鈥渁 homosexual problem.鈥� In 2010, the 澳彩开奖 designated the FRC a hate group due to its long history of spreading false propaganda about LGBT people.

Faithful America Director Michael Sherrard told Hatewatch that Perkins鈥� habit of lying about gays is at the crux of his group鈥檚 opposition to his appearances on MSNBC. 鈥淎 hate group that uses defamatory lies to demonize gay and lesbian Americans is not an appropriate representative for the faith community,鈥� he said.

while debating Hatewatch editor Mark Potok on MSNBC鈥檚 鈥淗ardball with Chris Matthews鈥� in November 2010. Chiding the 澳彩开奖 for what he claimed was a failure to do its research about LGBT people, Perkins claimed on the show that 鈥渢he research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children.鈥�

The 鈥渞esearch鈥� he referred to was done by the , a tiny group of doctors who in 2002 broke away from the American Academy of Pediatrics (the 60,000-member professional association to which most American pediatricians belong), because the latter supported LGBT parental rights.

The American College of Pediatricians, believed to have about 200 members, explicitly demands as a condition of membership that would-be joiners 鈥渉old true to the group鈥檚 core beliefs 鈥� [including] that the traditional family unit, headed by an opposite-sex couple, poses far fewer risk factors in the adoption and raising of children.鈥�

It is Perkins鈥� parroting of exactly this type of language that has earned Faithful America鈥檚 wrath. In a Jan. 12 calling on MSNBC to stop inviting him to comment, Faithful America wrote, 鈥淛ust as racist rhetoric has no place in the media, people who tell lies about our LGBT neighbors should not be baptized as credible Christian messengers. 鈥� MSNBC should continue its move to improve its contributor rolls by keeping FRC off its shows.鈥�