Family Research Council labeled 'Hate Group' by Southern Poverty Law Center

[JBoy]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/family-research-council-labeled-hate-group-by-splc-over-anti-gay-rhetoric.php?ref=fpa

The Family Research Council is perhaps the most prominent voice in conservative social politics and the hosts of an annual rite of passage for many Republicans who hope to run for president. And now, FRC is on the same Southern Poverty Law Center list of hate groups as the Ku Klux Klan.

The SPLC gave the Family Research Council the designation due to anti-gay speech from its leaders, which the SPLC says includes calls for gay men and lesbians to be imprisoned.

Labeling the Family Research Council a hate group puts one of Washington's most powerful social issues advocates into the company of groups like the Nation of Islam and the now mostly defunct Aryan Nations in the eyes of the SPLC, which tracks 932 active hate groups in the U.S.

Groups are labeled hate groups by the SPLC -- which made a name for itself by using civil lawsuits to severely weaken the KKK and other white supremacist groups -- when they "have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics," according to the group's website.

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Damn right!

[EFerrari]

1. Finally! nt

[Matariki]

2. right where they belong.

[Kalyke]

3. And the rightwing media will begin to bitch in 3...2...1

[MadMaddie]

4. Finally!

[donheld]

5. That's exactly what it is.

[ruggerson]

6. Maybe now the cable news channels will finally stop inviting them for "balance"

[fishwax]

7. they're vile

all the more so because (unlike the Klan) they still have direct access to a large number of people in power.

:kick: