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Tony Perkins Slams DNC For Booing God: ‘I Recall In History Where There Was Someone Else Who Denied God Three Times’

Sep. 12, 2012 10:45am Benny Johnson

Tony Perkins Compares Democrates to Peter Denying Jesus Three Times

Tony Perkins outside of the Family Research Council Photo Credit: AP

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council in Washington DC, spoke candidly to TheBlaze Tuesday afternoon about his feelings toward the highly controversial platform decisions of the DNC Convention.

As TheBlaze formerly reported,

With heavy booing from dissenters, the Democratic National Convention voted Wednesday to reinstate language supporting Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to restore a reference to God in its party platform. DNC Chairman and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa conducted a voice vote of the delegates on the proposed platform changes, asking for yeses and nos three times because of how similar the responses sounded. A two-thirds vote was required to adopt the change. Despite clear opposition, Villaraigosa declared the amendment had passed, prompting loud booing.

Perkins assailed the odd move and the controversy with a biblical reference.

Perkins quoted a friend who was at the convention and said “clearly they didn’t get the three quarters vote” needed to put God back into the platform. He continued, “I recall in history where there was someone else who denied God three times, the Son of God, before a rooster crowed.” Perkins was obviously referring to the scripture out of the Gospel of Matthew where it talks about Peter’s denial:

"The Denial of Saint Peter" by Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1623

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, Peter — this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny three times that you even know me.”

–Matthew 26:34

Perkins noted the decision shows where the Democratic party stands on a fundamental issue for Americans. Perkins was alarmed at the bluntness with which the DNC platform included abortion and gay marriage in their platform as well.

“The Democratic party is for unlimited taxpayer-funded abortion,” he said, adding that “they want other Americans to be forced to pay to end human life.” Perkins called the entire DNC platform “Troubling.”

You can listen to Perkins’s comments below:

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Timetostandup
Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:22am
Everyone should read the Harbinger. It puts in total context what is happening to our Nation. The book is terrifying right on point and explains why we no longer recognize our country as well as our fellow countrymen. Wake up America.

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CPTKellyG
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 5:22pm
We mustn’t be too hard on the DNC. The process to approve the Party Platform was the same process as what Pelosi and the Democrats did with ObamaCare…in other words, “they had to pass the platform in order to find out what was in it!

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David Foxfire
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 1:09pm
Bu this time, that Rooster’s probably wearing a huge sombrero and packing a gun, a la Joe Rogan: “Kicks down the door, Me llamo el Cocko. Bang, bang. Ruuuun, the **** is in town, run, grab the ninos, head for the hills! The **** is in town.”

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givemelibertyorgivemedeath
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:35pm
Tony Perkins. DO NOT COMPARE Saint Peter with the devil worshipping, commuist, DNC party.

How dare you even bring up such a comparison you moron.

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- OTBoxer
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:16pm
  Hear, hear!
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 4:21pm
  I agree, bad example. Peter made up for his weakness, the Dems never will.
  
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Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:30pm
I agree with Laura Ingram – If the Republican Party can’t win this election… then the party is DEAD.
OR
The base of the American public is SO FAR GONE that we have slipped into the point of no return.

It could be the latter
We’ll see in November

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Meyvn
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:03pm
Peter denied knowing Christ out of fear for his life and freedom. What’s the the DNC’s excuse?

Gutless wonders they are.

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- roach
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 2:08pm
  You are brainwashed if you believe in God, period. We are not born with a belief in some supernatural power that created and controls all things. That is fed to us from the day we are born. If you can’t see that, you shouldn’t be allowed to vote.
  
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- Ohello
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 10:51pm
  You are stupid, ignorant, and childish if you believe that you can give political authority over your life to a godless government. Such a government will treat you like the commodity that you are…and when that government has no need for you then it will dispose of you in any manner it chooses whether you like it or not. BTW, Allah is not God, and Islam is neither peaceful or good, but it is better than a godless communist such as your self.
  
  We need a government controlled by a people that value and strive to achieve character traits espoused by good Judeo-Christian principles, honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, brave, clean, and reverent. Proper definitions of these are found in Scripture, not in government regulations, and not in your brain or your heart.
  After all you are just a mass of molecules that evolved from nothing and have no true value other than the economic value of the chemicals and compounds that are found in and under your skin. The thought that you have intrinsic value or future human potential simply from being alive,is fantasy arising from your own self delusion. Especially when you become old and decrepit.
  The rest of society would be lucky if you are fit for Solyent Green.
  
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bartjoebob
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:02pm
What also is telling about this incident at the DNC is how Villaraigosa defrauded the democratic process. The DNC WAS CLEARLY AGAINST reinsertion of Jerusalem and God into the platform. And after THREE CLEAR votes were taken, Villaraigosa declared the will of the radical supermob audience invalid. There you go folks, voter fraud and disenfranchisement live on camera at the DNC. And we’re supposed to trust these people and the union paid lemming state and town workers running the polling stations to be honest without cameras rolling?

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subsailor
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:44am
Encinom: Pedophilia is not in the constitution either, but that doesn’t mean the founders were for it, or against it.
Your logic is flawed. The constitution clearly states: Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of religion, or the free exercise thereof. Do you get the part about free exercise?
The constitution guarantees freedom OF religion, not freedom FROM religion. Posting the 10 commandments in a courthouse is not establishing a state religion. Allowing Athiests to prevail by removing all references to God is a state established religion. Atheism is the religion of me, of worshiping ones self over any other.

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- encinom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:39pm
  The Free Exercise clause is a private right held by a Citizen, the Establishment Clause limits the interactions between Church and State, Posting the 10 Commandments in a Public Building like a Courthouse is a violation of the Establishment Clause, no citizen’s Free Exercise right has been infringed. The Establishment Clause does mean freedom from religion, it means freedom from the Government showing favoritism to any one religion, it means freedom from having tax dollars spent to endorse and advance any one religion.
  
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- Ohello
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:11pm
  @ECinoSatan
  Where has Congress established a religion as a law? The problem we have here is that the government has pervasively and subversively invaded all levels of society to the point it sticks its hand in every activity of every citizen, from education to farming. Anything can be used to oppress religion because of state involvement. But let’s be clear… your objections are primarily against Christianity. You seem to embrace Islam by your attitudes, an “ends justifies the means” style ideology. You have no qualms about imposing the government as god on all the nation, or your own sick values on your fellow citizens. As you know, and Peter Stark has stated, the government can do whatever it wants and it doesn’t matter what you say or think.
  Instead, you impose through law the Statist Religion. The government is the ultimate power in America, not the people. Folks like you who demand that the government not yield to a higher power, a holy and righteous power, ie God (Jesus, the Father, and the Holy Spirit who defines what is righteous and good) encourage the government to fulfill that role. Like all good Democrats, RINOs, atheists, Marxists, communists, Nazis, Stalinists, and theocrats and homosexuals, you impose your religion and lifestyles on those who do not impose theirs on you. You define bad as good, and good as bad. You are the Anti-Christ, the Anti-God, the Anti-Good. You have no authority over anything especially the Constitution.
  
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Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:43am
Call 4 B. Obama impeachment NOW !

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voting-for-romney
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:23am
Sometimes, I wonder if those leading the Democrat Party campaign to re-elect President Obama, throw easy softballs to the Republicans, so we can stand with Barack Obama, and elect him out of office on election day, without apologizing for the fact he will vote for himself and we will not?

Republicans are not going to apologize for the Democrats that want God out of the platform, just like they are not going to apologize for the hate crimes of foreign nations? I am not going to apologize for not eating fried chicken, in memory of 9/11, for the rest of the year, after a certain restaurant chain announces they slaughter chickens a certain way?

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Winedude
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:17am
“Science is the antidote to the poison of religion”…Adam Smith. I need not say anything more. Amazing to me that y’all accept Bible stories on blind faith…

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- Joey8
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:53am
  So explain the difference between blind faith and faith for us, with your impressive show of secular knowledge
  
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- JESUSISSTILLLORD
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:54am
  It takes far more blind faith to believe life arose from non life and then evolved.
  
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- USACommoner
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:55am
  Who says it’s “blind faith”…? You…? And if you know anything at all about “science”, you should also realize that it all didn’t “just happen”. Are you one of those who believe lightning struck a puddle of goo and *poof*, there was life..? How stupid is that?
  
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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:56am
  Amazing to me that y’all don”t. Never heard of Adam Smith. Named after the original Adam in Genesis?
  
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- encinom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:41pm
  The Tea Party is a fringe religious group that celebrates their ignorance as they reject science.
  
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- Jezreel
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 1:14pm
  The bible does not say that the earth is flat. As a matter of fact, it says that it is round. Encinom is totally ignorant. Besides that, God does not want to be affiliated with the democratic party in the first place. Our government politicians have denied and rejected Christ a long time ago. Some will pretend to stand for Him but if they truly did, they would be dead.
  
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- encinom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 2:01pm
  @Jezreel
  You forgot that the earth is only 6,000 years old and the cavemen and dinosaurs lived together. Creationism is a rejection of logic and science.
  
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- Camptown Races
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:38pm
  Apparently my ignorance is failing to understand how anything could be considered ‘blind faith’ when there is so much valid proof each and every day of human’s own selfish nature. The fact that the Bible points this out must truly irritate those who were figured out many thousands of years ago.
  
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- Ohello
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 11:17pm
  @EcinoSatan
  See even you can state the truth, just like the demons know of God and Jesus,
  You just refuse to accept it.
  Hey, did you read the report that trees that got blown into the lake from Mt. St. Helens eruption were petrified several years ago? C14 dating put them at 14,000 years old. 1/2 life of C14 is such that insufficient amounts of it remain after 30,000 years that we have no equipment to measure it. Funny we seem to measure it everywhere. How is that?
  
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NewLife56
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:17am
I have to admit, putting this in the denying three times thing sent a shiver down my spine

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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:46am
  Weird, huh?
  
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- HorseCrazy
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 3:47pm
  mine too. I cannot believe I didn’t recognize that as I sat watching the vote live on tv, I am shaken up by this. God’s truth, His wisdom, this is what we need to be focusing on now. God bless
  
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- Timetostandup
  Posted on September 13, 2012 at 7:17am
  Not just weird, but scary weird. And if you want a totally freak out scary, read The Harbinger. The entire country needs to read this book. I fear for our country with so many totally willing to deny God and the power there of. Once again, everyone needs to read the Harbinger. Israel fell due to their secular way of life 3000 years ago and the USA is following the same path – exactly as happened 3000 years ago. Read the Harbinger – it lays out the details. We are now walking the footprints of Israel from 3000 years ago.
  
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jmcclena
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:16am
lol. Tony Perkins you are an anti gay bigoted clown. No one is listening!

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- JESUSISSTILLLORD
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:55am
  I’m listening—and so is God.
  
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- fdraiden
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:13pm
  And you must be one of those “tolerant liberals”?
  
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jrcess
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:14am
One needs to look at who was doing the Boooing and voting No. Read the signs they are carrying ARAB AMERICAN, CAN YOU SAY MUSLIMS. The MUSLIMS controo 50% of the Democratic Party, GO FIGURE

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woodyee
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:11am
I wouldn’t call for lightning striking them, but I can’t wait to see the voters strike them down on Nov 6.; Nov. 7 for Democrats, the dead, illegal aliens, and pets…

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- Sirfoldallot
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:15am
  Impeach B. Obama now.
  
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doomytram
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:09am
Perhaps in 2016, when Obozo is unanimously rel-elected to his third term they will hold a Bible Burning ceremony at the Convention. Vladimir would approve and so would Valerie Jarret.

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Detroit paperboy
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:05am
Foodstamps is their God…………………

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abbygirl1994
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:03am
Matthew 10:33 “But whosoever shall adeny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven”.

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- TEXASGRANNY73
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:43am
  Good AbbyGirl1994 Good going Abby Girl. Matthew 9:27 According to your faith be it unto you.
  
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- conservative316
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:47am
  Clear as day
  
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- USACommoner
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Read The Harbinger. It deals with Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars” as it relates to 9/11 and rebuilding the tower.
  
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momrules
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:00am
I felt a chill, jaw dropping disbelief and horror at the booing of God. Three times denied by Barack Obama’s Democratic Party.

Americans please wake up, get on your knees and beg forgiveness from the Almighty God for our sins as a nation. He will listen if we do.

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- encinom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:09am
  NO! WE ARE NOT A THEOCRACY< YOUR SKY FATHER DEITY HAS NO PLACE IN OUR GOVERNMENT.
  
  Worship your God in private, he has no place in the halls of government, unless you want to live in a Taliban styled theocracy than move out of the secular republic.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:11am
  I am going to add a thought to my comment. I believe we are too far gone down the slope for Americans to en mass return to God. In the name of tolerance we have allowed too many sins to not only enter our lives but to be welcomed and embraced by too many.
  
  Our own President embraces abortion up to and including the murder of babies born after a botched late term abortion. He embraces and promotes homosexuality. He embraces and promotes communism…………and people in America still love him.
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:27am
  @ENCINOMORON
  Guess what, He has been in our government for 200 years nd we have no Taliban-like government, YET. That is because Christians are, for the most part, tolerant, peace-loving people. We don’t go all postal at every little insult, like they do in the middle east. That’s why it is always so volatile there.
  
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matamoros
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:58am
The DNC is ready to drop all pretenses of being democratic. They’re all about marxism, big govt, the state, the collective, and there is no room for God. God is a big problem for them, because the collective might not look to them for answers and inspiration (and collective salvation).

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- encinom
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:10am
  The Founders had no room for God either, they left him out of the Constitution.
  
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- 2MINUTESTOMIDNIGHT
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:34am
  ENCINOM: Jesus loves you too.
  
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- conservative316
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:46am
  Endowed by our creator. . .
  
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- JESUSISSTILLLORD
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:57am
  Left him out? As in the 1st amendment? Or in the Declaration of Independance? Just where do our rights come from, according to our founders?
  
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- USACommoner
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 12:12pm
  What do you know about the Constitution? Only what you’ve been told by obama and his buddies? You can request a copy from the Heritage Foundation. You should read it.
  
  We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
  
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Micmac
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:57am
But ask yourself, “Why is he to only one speaking out.” Silence speaks volumes.

NoBama > MoBama

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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:09am
  the rest are cowards who don’t want any undo hardships, but as a man of faith we must all endure hardships it is our beliefs in god that help us through those who choice to stay silent will have to face god himself when their time comes and i hope i am not standing ant where around them when they are turned away from heaven and the doors to hell open up,because i don’t want to accidentally fall in.
  
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ginger100
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:54am
Govt is the knew god.

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- abbygirl1994
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:00am
  Not mine!!
  
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- ginger100
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:22am
  Donations are taken every April 15, vote to re elect the preezy, the guy in the back leading the retreat
  
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watersRpeople
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:52am
Yeah an Atheist will deny God three times even when you show him the power of God.

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Oneirishman
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:51am
Here, Here! United We Stand!

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MittensKittens
Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:50am
Way to go Tony. Call a spade a spade!

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- Wango
  Posted on September 12, 2012 at 11:33am
  Yes, The jig is up!
  
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