So Tony Perkins is at it again, unleashing his hyperbolic doomsday rhetoric over the economic stimulus package currently making its way through Congress.
In his most recent Action Alert from the Family Research Council, Perkins bemoans the package’s “$200 million for lawn care in Washington, D.C., $360 million to potentially be used to put on transsexual beauty pageants and erotic art shows.”
Translation: that’s $200 million to refurbish the shabby National Mall (I guess you could call that “lawn care”) from years of wear and tear. As far as I know, it does not mean someone is going to come mow my lawn on Capitol Hill on Uncle Same’s dime.
And the $360 million for “transexual beauty pageants”? I’m not at all sure what he was referring to there-the National Endowment for the Arts is only scheduled to get $50 million-but I can guarantee you there’s no designated line item for federally funded “transexual beauty pageants.”
Perhaps Perkins’ call to arms works. ABC is reporting that House Democrats voted to remove the “lawn care” funds, as well as millions of dollars that was supposed to go to family planning and contraceptives.
But c’mon, Tony. Let’s at least try to be accurate.
