The Investor's Business Daily with an editorial on the FRC shooter:
A gay activist opens fire in a conservative organization's offices, inspired by the steady drumbeat of leftist vitriol against those who value traditional marriage, and no one says a word.
You won't hear any call for civil discourse from President Obama's bully pulpit over the shooting and wounding of a security guard at the offices of the conservative Family Research Council (FRC) in Washington, D.C.
The alleged shooter was a volunteer at a community center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people, and the FRC favors traditional marriage.
Those who blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords or Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma City bombing are strangely silent.
At least the likes of ABC's Brian Ross didn't reflexively blame the Tea Party, as he did after a gunman shot up an Aurora, Colo., movie theater.
On Tuesday, the Human Rights Campaign put on its blog a piece titled, "Paul Ryan Speaking at Hate Group's Annual Conference," referring to the FRC.
It said that the "FRC has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's a group that has advocated for the criminalization of homosexuality, called for LGBT people to be exported from the U.S., and has pushed dangerous lies trying to link being gay to pedophilia."
The FRC has done none of those things but that didn't stop the Daily Kos from vilifying the FRC for its support of Chick-fil-A: "Chick-fil-A's corporate 'charity' arm WinShape has donated millions of dollars to groups like Family Research Council. FRC doesn't just oppose marriage equality, they really do HATE gays."
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Same reason why President Obama makes no apology for being buddies with a known terrorist, Bill Ayers. To a true leftist, the ends justifies the means.
"Chick-fil-A's corporate 'charity' arm WinShape has donated millions of dollars to groups like Family Research Council."
I believe Chick-Fil-A donated $1,000 to FRC. This type of hyperbole is normal for the opposition.
And the lazy, complicit media just goes along. Is it any wonder their ratings are at historic lows?
Where is the heterosexual equivalent to NAMBLA?
"You won't hear any call for civil discourse from President Obama's bully pulpit over the shooting..."
There SHOULD be a call for civil discourse from those who are privileged to be in leadership positions in this country. It's the responsibility of decency.
I've read a bit about the SPLC's rationale for calling the FRC an "anti-gay" "hate group," and I read the SPLC's description of its "anti-gay" groups. This description seems to mirror, in large part, the homosexual activists' common (but patently untrue) claim that opposing what homosexual activists want to change is "anti-gay" -- even when it affects the rest of society.
To be honest, I'm not real impressed to see how, what looks like, homosexual activists having taken over the "Anti-Gay" and "Gay Rights" sections of the SPLC. This may be natural, but it obviously injects bias.
If it's like the homosexual journalists' coverage of homosexual issues in the media, the bias may be extreme.
Knowing what I know about same-sex "marriage" advocates, bells go off in my head when I see the opponents of homosexual special rights advocates labeling groups, "anti-gay". This raises a red flag because they call marriage supporters "anti-gay" too (and a lot of other things).
We just don't want marriage redefined.