A coalition that includes black pastors and pro-family organizations held a protest outside the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center yesterday to protest the organization’s ongoing “slander” against pro-family organizations.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has traditionally sought to counteract racist organizations in the south, has recently begun to categorize pro-family groups as “hate groups” for opposing the homosexual political agenda and condemning homosexual behavior as immoral.
Groups condemned as “hateful” by the SPLC include The Illinois Family Institute, Mass Resistance, Abiding Truth Ministries, and Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, all of which appeared at the protest or made supporting statements. The Family Research Council has also been condemned by the SPLC.
Among the African-American pastors protesting at SPLC headquarters were Pastor Glen Sawyer, of the Mt. Zion Church of God in Christ (Camden, North Carolina), Pastor Wil Nichols, Victorious Praise Fellowship (Durham, North Carolina), Pastor Jon Robinson, Kingdom C.O.M.E. Ministries (Clairton, Pennsylvania), and Pastor Kenneth Jefferson of Greater Harvest.
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Good for them! The only hate groups I see are the homosexual activists who try and get people fired, who try and shut companies down and who go around defiling church services against anyone who doesn't believe that two men having sex equals marriage.
This was a completely ridiculous protest. SPLC has strict criteria for designating organizations as hate groups. If there was any truth tho the criticism being launched at them, every anti-gay, self-described "pro-family" organization would be in their list. What this does highlight however, is that there appears to be no level if anti-gay hate that your average "pro-family" finds unacceptable. When will the mainstream groups get together and disavow the extremists?
"Pro-family" as used by NOM & its like-minded organizations actually means "anti-equality."
I wish more groups would protest. And the homosexual enablers should remember that if their mother had married her girlfriend instead of your father, you wouldn't be here to argue this point.
So it's hateful to disagree with a lifestyle choice.
Yet, the hateful rhetoric always comes from the other side.
Because I'm guessing a lot of you don't follow any LGBTQA news outlets, here you go:
"Mark Potok, editor of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report responded to the accusations:
“Our listing of anti-gay hate groups is completely unrelated to religion, Christianity or the Bible. These groups are listed because they repeatedly lie in an effort to defame LGBT people, an exercise they’ve been extraordinarily successful at. The idea that we are criticizing these groups because they represent Judeo-Christian morality is simply ludicrous.
“The SPLC does not identify anti-gay hate groups based on their religious views. Instead, the SPLC lists anti-gay groups on the basis of spreading known falsehoods and demonizing propaganda against LGBT people, such as the claim that gay men largely orchestrated the Holocaust.”
There.
“Our listing of anti-gay hate groups is completely unrelated to religion, Christianity or the Bible. These groups are listed because they repeatedly lie in an effort to defame LGBT people, an exercise they’ve been extraordinarily successful at. The idea that we are criticizing these groups because they represent Judeo-Christian morality is simply ludi-crous.
“The SPLC does not identify anti-gay hate groups based on their religious views. Instead, the SPLC lists anti-gay groups on the basis of spreading known falsehoods and demon-izing propaganda against LGBT people, such as the claim that gay men largely orchestrated the Holocaust.”
I would very much like my comment to be posted; it sheds a lot of light on this issue.
Sorry for spamming; the above quote is from Mark Potok, editor of the SPLC’s Intelligence Report
Truths inconvenient to the defenders of homosexual relationships are not "known falsehoods".Crying "defamation" does not absolve anyone of responsibility to desist from such relationships.
Again, someone tries to equate gay or lesbian with sterile. Nice try, though.
They have a right to protest bigotry either way, but it is not only about same-sex civil marriage. Many people still believe the 1990 claims that 'homosexuality'- is how certain people are. Those experiments have been debunked, even by the same researchers. Not true, as a behavior, we all can be that way. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any supposed 'bi-sexuals'. Isn't a 'bi-sexual' someone who changes from so-called homosexual behavior to so-called heterosexual behavior, on and on? The whole thing just doesn't have any scientific standing. But in USA, to find an answer where there's none, people just vote. And in secret, they mostly vote against same-sex civil marriage, and that's their right.