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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...

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...

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. 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...

Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters: Christian Anti-Defamation Commission defends exorcists and hate groups from the 'scary gays'
Now that President Obama has signed lgbt-inclusive Hate Crimes Legislation, every wannabe religious right Activist with access to a computer and someone dumb enough to fund them is coming out of the woodwork looking to profit on the supposed coming persecution of Christians by the lgbt community. "In other nations, like Canada, where Hate Crime laws have been enacted, it is Christians, specifically conservative Christians who hold to the historic Christian faith and it's values, that become the ...

The Associated Press: FBI: Hate crime incidents, victim numbers down
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Hate Crime incidents and Victims declined in 2009 compared with the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. Of more than 6,000 Hate Crime offenders, over six in 10 were white while nearly two in 10 were black. Nearly half of the crime incidents in 2009 were motivated by racial bias, nearly 20 percent by religious bias and over 18 percent by Sexual Orientation bias. More than half the reported Hate Crimes against individual people were assaults, said the FBI. On...

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...

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

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......

Estate of Marcelo Lucero, Slain Immigrant, Sues Suffolk
The estate of the Ecuadorean immigrant who was stabbed to death in 2008 in a racially motivated attack in Patchogue, N.Y., filed a federal Lawsuit on Monday, accusing Suffolk County, its Police Department and other agencies of violating his Civil Rights by failing to protect Hispanics in the same manner that they protected whites. The immigrant, Marcelo Lucero, was surrounded and attacked by seven teenagers in a Parking Lot of a train station in Patchogue shortly before midnight on Nov. 8, 2008...

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

Southern Poverty Law Center Updates List of Anti-Gay Hate Groups, Adding AFA, FRC, Others...
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. Read their full list of 18 anti-gay hate groups. With the new designations comes a report that gays remain the minority most targeted by Hate Crimes....

New FBI hate crime stats show Jews still much more likely than Muslims to be victim of hate crime assault
Caroline May is a political reporter at the Daily Caller. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s most recent Hate Crime statistics, released Monday, show that Crimes committed due to racial biases are the most prevalent and that — despite a great deal of Rhetoric to the contrary — for Crimes committed due to a religious bias, it is still safer to be Muslim than it is to be Jew. According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program in 2009 there were 8,336 Victim...

FBI: Hate crime incidents, victim numbers down
WASHINGTON — The number of Hate Crime incidents and Victims declined in 2009 compared with the previous year, the FBI reported Monday. Of more than 6,000 Hate Crime offenders, over six in 10 were white while nearly two in 10 were black. Nearly half of the crime incidents in 2009 were motivated by racial bias, nearly 20 percent by religious bias and over 18 percent by Sexual Orientation bias. More than half the reported Hate Crimes against individual people were assaults, said the FBI. On...

FBI’s ‘Hate Crimes’ Report Once Again Dispels Myths
Good news: Hate Crimes went down in 2009. Better news: It’s the lowest number of Hate Crimes since the FBI began reporting them.  Ironic news: In the same year that we now know was the lowest year on record for hate crimes, Congress passed the Speech-chilling, religious-freedom-killing Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Act of 2009. Since the Matthew Shepard Act was a high-priority issue for the Gay Activist lobby, it’s interesting to note that gays and Lesbians wer...

FBI Hate Crimes Report for 2009 Shows--Anti-Jewish Attacks Nine Times More Than Anti-Muslim Ones
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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,...

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 ...

Mixed news on hate crimes
Born Gay? (Theories of Homosexuality) When we first reported on three American anti-gay Activists traveling to Kampala for a three-day conference, we had no idea that it would be the first report of a long string of events leading to a proposal to institute the death penalty for LGBT people. But that is exactly what happened. In this report, we review our collection of more than two hundred posts to tell the story of one nation’s embrace of hatred toward gay people. This report will be up...

Throwing Down the Gauntlet
The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the premier organizations tracking hate groups and Racist organizations in the country, has placed the Family Research Council on its list of hate groups that it tracks. ...

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...

"Islamophobia" Not Reflected in FBI Hate Crimes Statistics
There were nine times more anti-Jewish Hate Crimes reported in 2009 than those against Muslims, new statistics released by the FBI show. The 2009 Hate Crime report released by the FBI Monday also showed that about slightly more than one-third of the 6,604 incidents were race related. There were 2,284 anti-black incidents, the FBI reported. Despite concerns voiced by some Muslim groups that "Islamophobia" is on the rise and fueling anti-Muslim attacks, those fears were not demonstrated in the la...

FBI Says Only 8% of Religious Hate Crimes Were Against Muslims, 75% Towards Jews
CAIR officials last seen gently weeping in the corner… WASHINGTON (AFP) - Blacks and Jews were the most likely Victims of Hate Crimes driven by racial or religious intolerance in the United States last year, the FBI said Monday in an annual report. Out of 6,604 Hate Crimes committed in the United States in 2009, some 4,000 were racially motivated and nearly 1,600 were driven by hatred for a particular religion, the FBI said. Blacks made up around three-quarters of Victims of the r...

Blacks, Jews most likely victim of US hate crimes: FBI
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Blacks and Jews were the most likely Victims of Hate Crimes driven by racial or religious intolerance in the United States last year, the FBI said Monday in an annual report. Out of 6,604 Hate Crimes committed in the United States in 2009, some 4,000 were racially motivated and nearly 1,600 were driven by hatred for a particular religion, the FBI said. Blacks made up around three-quarters of Victims of the racially motivated Hate Crimes and Jews made up the same percen...

New FBI Hate Crime Stats: Again Jews, NOT Muslims, Majority Victims
Nearly every year, I write about the FBI’s annual Hate Crimes statistics.  And every year, the biggest Victims by far-in terms of Religious Discrimination-are Jews, NOT Muslims (see my reports on the 2008 and 2007 stats ).  That’s despite the Muslim victimhood and oppression merchants’ annoying whines about “backlash.” If anything, there is forelash-we bend over, they insert. And in the same forelash vein, also this year-like every ...