Anti-gay Family Research Council is upset that it's been categorized as a "hate group"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010 20:15 ET
Broadsheet
Anti-gay group: We aren't hateful!
The Family Research Council is angry that its homophobic rhetoric has gotten it labeled a "hate group"
By Tracy Clark-Flory

Oh, this is just rich: The Family Research Council (FRC) is upset that it's been categorized as a "hate group" in The Southern Poverty Law Center's report this week on rabidly anti-gay organizations. President Tony Perkins says the list is part of "the left's smear campaign of conservatives," the Washington Post reports, but let's take a look at some of the facts, shall we?

FRC senior research fellows Tim Dailey and Peter Sprigg "have pushed false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia," reports the SPLC. In a conversation about immigration rights for gay couples, Sprigg told Chris Matthews, "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them." He later apologized for that statement, but went on to argue that there should be "criminal sanctions" against "homosexual behavior." Sprigg also "claimed that allowing gay people to serve openly in the military would lead to an increase in gay-on-straight sexual assaults," reports SPLC. On top of all these noxious comments, the group has taken a lead in the fight against marriage equality.

Hmm, sure looks like hate and acts like hate. As the saying goes, don't blame the mirror if the reflection is ugly.

http://www.salon.com/news/gay_marriage/index.html?story=/mwt/broadsheet/2010/11/24/hate

[RKP5637]

1. It's one of the biggest hate groups going IMO. Full of bigots and crazies. n/t

[jemelanson]

2. Next they will claim that they are being persecuted....poor, poor,

poor little Conservative Right Wing Christian American Taliban group....they preach their hate and then whine when they are called on it....What a crock....

[lunatica]

3. Their poor feelings are hurt! It's not they who hate gays, it's God!

[niceypoo]

4. When will the GOP be designated as a hate group?

[ZombieHorde]

6. Or the RCC? nt

[burnsei sensei]

5. It is a hate group.

nt

[MadMaddie]

7. I am glad this has happened!

These RightWing Christian hate groups have been allowed to propser on their Anti-American efforts. They have been allowed to make their accusations without fact or evidence and yet Faux runs the lies day in and day out.

These groups are dangerous to America and should be recognized.

[RKP5637]

8. Exactly! They have gotten a free pass too often to spread their hatred and

bigotry under the veil of being godly and above reproach. It's a bunch of malarkey used to hide hate groups.