{"id":3485,"date":"2010-11-29T00:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T08:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2010-11-29T00:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T08:58:11","slug":"the-hate-group-hates-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/29\/the-hate-group-hates-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hate Group Hates "Hate""},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council has his panties in a bunch, because the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the FCRC a hate group.  That must be particularly embarrassing for a pseudo-Christian organization that falsely claims love as the driving force behind their faith.  I see it as imperative that authentic believers take the lead in promoting acceptance of and coexistence with others, rejecting the path of intolerance, hate and violence promoted by the Republican religious right.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29nohate\"The Family Research Council is angry after being labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Family Research Council is a Christian fundamentalist organization that has a long history of demonizing members of the gay and lesbian community<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> (SPLC) is a nonprofit civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. Founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. in 1971, the SPLC is internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups. <\/p>\n

The conservative Christian hate group Family Research Council (FRC) has long been an outspoken and vicious critic of the LGBT community. Recently the FRC has been a major critic of anti-bullying programs meant to protect gay and lesbian youth<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The SPLC’s recently released report added some of the nation’s leading Christian 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, to its registry of hate groups, groups like the Ku Klux Klan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Not suprisingly, the Family Research Council doesn’t like being lumped together with the Ku Klux Klan and other hate groups. The FRC launched a strongly worded response [hate group delinked<\/em>] to the SPLC, calling the action a "slanderous attack" <\/p>\n

However, while Tony Perkins, leader of the FRC,  and other leaders of the Christian hate movement may deny it, it seems clear that their demonization of homosexuals plays a role in fomenting the anti-gay violence, hatred and bullying that is present in society<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Family Research Council is perhaps the most prominent voice in conservative social politics and their dehumanizing rhetoric around the gay and lesbian community is  nothing short of despicable\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Portland Examiner<\/a>><\/p>\n

It\u2019s really quite simple.  When people regularly practice hatred claim to be Christian, they aren\u2019t.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council has his panties in a bunch, because the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the FCRC a hate group.  That must be particularly embarrassing for a pseudo-Christian organization that falsely claims love as the driving force behind their faith.  I see it as imperative that authentic believers take the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-5-id","category-47-id","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}