Tony Perkins is appointed to US Commission on International Religious Freedom

On June 17, 2019 Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council, was elected the Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Right Wing Watch is concerned about this appointment, but I believe Perkins will be able to keep a sense of fairness for all religions. The Family Research Council used to be part of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, but they broke off in the early 1990s, so they could be more political. I used to listen to Focus on the Family quite a bit (back in the 1990s), so this appointment is quite interesting to me. I hope Perkins uses the position in a wise way, and not to be anti-Muslim and anti- LGBTQ.