Southern Poverty Law Center Updates List of Anti-Gay Hate Groups

[terrya]

The Southern Poverty Law Center updated its list of hate groups today, adding 13 new groups.

Writes the SPLC: "These groups’ influence reaches far beyond what their size would suggest, because the “facts” they disseminate about homosexuality are often amplified by certain politicians, other groups and even news organizations.

Here are the additions:

American Family Association, Family Research Council, Illinois Family Institute, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment, Family Research Institute, Abiding Truth Ministries, American Vision, Chalcedon Foundation, Dove World Outreach Center, Faithful Word Baptist Church, Traditional Values Coalition, and MassResistance.

Read their full list of 18 anti-gay hate groups:

http://splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2010/winter/the-hard-liners

http://www.towleroad.com/2010/11/southern-poverty-law-center-updates-list-of-anti-gay-hate-groups-adding-afa-frc-others.html

[racaulk]

1. Worthy additions all.

K&R

[Starry Messenger]

2. k&r

I'm glad to hear this. SPLC having them on their hate list takes the cover away that they try to hide behind as "a reasonable difference of opinion". I wish they'd been on the list when Prop 8 was on the ballot. MassResistance and NOM might have had less traction in their hate ads here. Maybe. Anyway, good news. :thumbsup: