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Tony Perkins
Family Research Council president
Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, a right-wing Christian organization that includes a lobbying PAC. It is one of the most influential and extreme anti-LGBTQ groups in the country. Under Perkins’ leadership, FRC supported legislation in Uganda that could have punished gay men with execution for having sex. Perkins is also a frequent guest on cable news and serves as a commissioner of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.