Family Research Council Labeled 'Hate Group' By SPLC Over Anti-Gay Rhetoric

Hate Is A Family Value
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such things, has designated the Family Research Council as a "Hate Group."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. 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 th...

Hate Is A Family Value
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such things, has designated the Family Research Council as a "Hate Group."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 Nati...

Hate Is A Family Value
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such things, has designated the Family Research Council as a "Hate Group."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. 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 th...

Family Research Council...'Hate Group?'
FRC President Tony Perkins says SPLC's accusations are a desperate attempt for attention by a dwindling Liberal Base. (Associated Press) The Family Research Council's opposition to 'gay' rights has landed the outfit on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of "Hate Groups" — a label strongly denied by the influential Christian conservative organization. The Montgomery, Ala.-based civil-rights group named FRC in the winter edition of its Intelligence Report as one of 13 organizations it co...

FRC labeled a 'hate group'
The Family Research Council's opposition to Gay Rights has landed the outfit on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of Hate Groups - a label strongly denied by the influential Christian conservative organization. The Montgomery, Ala.-based civil-r......

Groups that helped oust Iowa judges earn hate group designation
The effects of the Iowa judicial retention election were felt far beyond the Hawkeye State’s borders, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said while making a case for a new national emphasis on Social Issues. Speaking at a Fundraiser for The Family Leader Sunday afternoon, the 2008 Iowa Caucuses winner drew a crowd of 1,500 supporters to proclaim a new day for the social Conservative Movement. Despite sharing a name, numerous connections and an anti-gay marriage agenda, Iowa Family Policy C...

The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
I was on CNN earlier today—very early this morning—via Skype. First and most importantly: I hate Skype . I look like I'm dying on Skype. But there was no getting to a TV studio this AM, so I had to Skype. I HATE YOU, SKYPE. Kyra Phillips invited me to come on CNN Newsroom to discuss this week's report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Their report found that LGBT people were more at risk of being Victims of Hate Crimes than any other minority group. SPLC: The SPLC’s analysi...

Alvin McEwen: Family Research Council, American Family Association Named as Anti-Gay Hate Groups
Yesterday, the Southern Poverty Law Center added five more organizations to its list of anti-gay hate groups, including some names that are long overdue. The new groups are: American Family Association Americans For Truth About Homosexuality Dove World Outreach Center Family Research Council Illinois Family Institute This brings the total of anti-gay hate groups to 18 and all of them are profiled in exact detail by SPLC. Other groups profiled by SPLC but not designated as official hate groups ...

GOProud plays Wormtongue to GOPs King Theoden
How many movies have you seen where the bad guy sends a saboteur into the good guy’s camp. This person pretends he wants the same end result as the good guy when all the while he’s working to bring him down. Wormtongue of “Lord of the Rings” fame comes to mind with his evil whisperings into King Theoden’s ear as he leads him astray with lies and persuasion. Recently according to Politico, GOProud, the conservative Homosexual group, along with various segments of the Tea Party

AMERICAblog Gay: Known 'hate group' met with Pentagon's DADT working group and White House officials
I'm sure I don't need to explain how odd it would be for Barack Obama's administration to be conducting meetings with a known Hate Group. Let alone letting that known hate group influence Pentagon policy on, of all things, a National Security decision affecting Civil Rights. Yet, that is in fact what the Pentagon did. (And in fact, the White House has also met at least once with representatives of the Hate Group.) Fortunately for the President, the group in question, the Family Research Council,...

Do 'gay' passengers getopposite-sex pat downs?
Apparently, the Terrorist-detection procedures of the Obama Administration are derived from the age-old method used to tell if puppies are boys or girls. One just has to hold up the puppy in question and have a look. Or, as the method's equivalent works down at the Transportation Security Administration, one just pulls Granny out of the line and performs the Safe Skies Samba. If only there were some way for the TSA to tell Muslim terrorists who want to blow up a plane from Episcopalian grandm...

The Most Hilarious Piece You'll Ever Read About Gays in the Military
D.C. comedy site "The Daily Caller" has a hilarious piece today, extremely Swiftian and sophisticated in its humor and irony! It is by a former Tennessee District Attorney, named Joe Rehyansky. It goes like this: "I have never encountered my eminently sensible proposal, one that protects the patriotic urges of some Homosexuals as well as the national interest on the basis of 'force readiness' arguments which should govern the thinking of those charged with implementing t...

Don't hint, don't wink: An immodest proposal
Joseph A. Rehyansky is retired from the United States Army and the Chattanooga, Tennessee, District Attorney's Office. He is a former contributor to National Review whose writings have also appeared in Human Events Online, The American Spectator, and other publications. It’s been a long time since I was required to shower among 40 or so friends, acquaintances, and virtual strangers, or not do so at all — a socially unacceptable option.  Forty-two years after the fact, I no longe...

Another Conservative Fears DADT Repeal Will Lead to Draft
Last week Kyle reported that Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council feared that allowing Gays and Lesbians to serve openly in the Military will damage recruitment to such an extent that the President would have to “bring back the draft.” Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy is now too sounding the alarm that the Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell would lead to the collapse of the volunteer military. In his Washington Times column, Gaffney uses the recent panic...

Gay Censorship Update: Sex Columnist Berates CNN (on CNN) for Letting Conservatives Speak
CNN has demonstrated strongly and repeatedly that it does not believe in objectivity or fairness in reporting on Homosexuality. On Tuesday's Newsroom, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips touted a new study from the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center that added some of the nation's leading social conservative groups -- including the Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, the National Organization for Marriage, the American Family Association, and the Traditional Values Coalition -- t...

Is It OK to Say "Gay"? - Culture - GOOD
Exploring the different meanings of a Controversial word. The word “Gay” is everywhere you look these days. Gay Activists support Gay Rights such as Gay Marriage, while gay-bashers Protest all things gay, including the gayby boom. There’s also been a rash of suicides involving gay youngsters who were bullied—which is perhaps why the trailer for The Dilemma caught major flak. In it, Vince Vaughn says: “Ladies and gentleman, Electric Cars ... are gay. I mean, not homo...

Do 'gay' passengers getopposite-sex pat downs?
Apparently, the Terrorist-detection procedures of the Obama Administration are derived from the age-old method used to tell if puppies are boys or girls. One just has to hold up the puppy in question and have a look. Or, as the method's equivalent works down at the Transportation Security Administration, one just pulls Granny out of the line and performs the Safe Skies Samba. If only there were some way for the TSA to tell Muslim terrorists who want to blow up a plane from Episcopalian grandm...

CAIR: Anti-Islam Hate Group Leader Trains Va. Terror Task Force
WASHINGTON, July 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the FBI and Virginia's Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force to explain why a leader of an anti-Islam Hate Group was invited to offer training to state and federal Law Enforcement officers. [The Tidewater Joint Terrorism Task Force brings together representatives from the FBI and local, state, Military, and federal agencies. SEE: https://norfolk.fbi.gov/partners.htm ] Robert Spencer, co...

Dan Savage Appears On CNN To Slam CNN Because CNN Gives Airtime To Hate Groups
Here's the first (and very satisfying) fallout from yesterday's new official Hate Group designations by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Dan Savage appeared on CNN this afternoon to slam them for giving airtime to anti-gay bigots. "There are no 'two sides' to the issue of LGBT rights. Right now one side is really using dehumanizing Rhetoric. The Southern Poverty Law Center labels these groups as hate groups and yet the leaders of these groups, people like Tony Perkins, are welcomed onto networ...

HomoQuotable - Michael Triplett
"While the 'Hate Group' list is interesting, it is also largely meaningless in terms of who the media should talk to and who they shouldn’t. Included in the current list of 18 groups-who all, apparently, aren’t going to show up on the final list-are organizations associated with white supremacist and Christian Identity movements, but also major players in the social conservative political world: Concerned Women for America, National Organization for Marriage, and Family Research Co

Lesbians are actually kinda hot and make good soldiers too
So sign ‘em up for Team America: World Police. There’s a lot to savor here: The time machine that takes you back to 1953; the just-so evolutionary biology; the characteristically creepy mixture of obsession with and attraction/repulsion toward the subject matter; the sexualization of the work place. It’s a heady brew, as Agent Van Alden might say. Update: I read this after The Daily Caller had removed the original final sentence, which per the Amanda Hess piece Scott links abo...

Would a Supreme Court Decision Favoring Gay Marriage Decrease Public Support?
( - promoted by Pam Spaulding) When Iowa voters casted out three state judges that voted in favor of Gay Marriage rights earlier this month, I was reminded how many times a Popular Vote has been in favor of Gay marriage: zero. Even in liberal Maine, voters struck down a Gay Marriage law. Instead, Gay Marriage victories have usually come from the courts. Legalization of Gay Marriage in Iowa, Massachusetts, Connecticut, D.C., and New Hampshire all resulted from court decisions. Only in V...

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: The Morality of Gay Adoption
On Tuesday night, Dec. 14, Rosie O'Donnell and I will be conducting a public conversation in New Jersey about families and kids, the celebrity culture and the effects of fame, balancing work and career, and learning how to inspire our Children. It's a subject Rosie is eminently qualified to address. This is, after all, the woman who walked away from one of television's most successful programs and tens of millions dollars per year in order to raise her Children. It will be followed by a fundra...

Anti-AIDS groups hail drug but worry over cost
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - AIDS prevention advocates are hailing a pill newly shown to protect against HIV as a great tool for disease prevention. But they caution that no drug alone can address social factors blamed for the persistence of the epidemic. And they say concerns remain about who will pay for the costly treatment. A study released Tuesday showed that daily doses of a drug called Truvada, already used to treat HIV infection, cut the risk of new infections among healthy Gay men. Kyriell N...

Anti-AIDS groups hail drug but worry over cost
(11-24) 00:11 PST San Francisco (AP) -- AIDS prevention advocates are hailing a pill newly shown to protect against HIV as a great tool for disease prevention. But they caution that no drug alone can address social factors blamed for the persistence of the epidemic. And they say concerns remain about who will pay for the costly treatment. A study released Tuesday showed that daily doses of a drug called Truvada, already used to treat HIV infection, cut the risk of new infections among healthy ...