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CNN host Soledad O’Brien had to get rowdy this morning!

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When interviewing Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council about the conservative opposition to keep gay scouts and leaders out of the Boy Scouts, Perkins compared gays to pedophiles.

“Why would I let a man who is attracted to other males go camping with my boys,” Perkins argued.

The comment spurred a debate about whether or not Perkins was alluding that gays were similar to pedophiles and would assault young men in the organization.

According to Think Progress:

O’Brien disputed these claims during an interview with Perkins, pointing out that “core values” and moral codes evolve over time. “I remember when I was in school,” she said. “If you were a teacher and you were pregnant, you were removed from the classroom. It was considered morally inappropriate to have a pregnant woman in the classroom. Blacks in the military was morally problematic.” “How come this doesn’t fall into the same kind of guidelines?” O’Brien asked.

Perkins responded by arguing that unlike the immutable characteristic of race or gender, gay people can change their sexual orientation to become straight and insisted that allowing them into the Boy Scouts would lead to inappropriate sexual relationships and increase instances of pedophilia.

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When O’Brien asked him if he outright thought gays were pedophiles, Perkins retracted his statement, saying this:

“They are trying to create an environment that is protective of children. This doesn’t make it more protective. There is a disproportionate number of male on boy — when we get on pedophilia, male on boy is a higher incident rate of that. We never said all homosexuals are pedophiles. That’s not what we’re saying.”

But O’Brien didn’t let him get away. Watch the video above to see her telling Perkin that he’s on the “wrong side of history,” in only the way O’Brien can, that makes you say “GET EM!”

SOURCE: Think Progress