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riversedge

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Fri Aug 10, 2018, 05:52 PM Aug 2018

Jeff Sessions spoke at a hate group summit & told them 'You are not a hate group'

Sessions really is an evil man with lots of power to do great harm--and he is doing harm to so many



Jeff Sessions spoke at a hate group summit & told them ‘You are not a hate group’


https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2018/08/jeff-sessions-spoke-hate-group-summit-told-not-hate-group/





Thursday, August 9, 2018



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Speaking at the ADF’s Summit on Religious Liberty, Sessions said that he first learned that the ADF was a hate group when he spoke at an event sponsored by the group last year.


“We have gotten to the point… where one group can actively target religious groups by labeling them a ‘hate group’ on the basis of their sincerely held religious beliefs,” he said in the speech.

“When I spoke to ADF last year, I learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center had classified ADF as a ‘hate group,’” he added. “Many in the media simply parroted that as a fact.”

The media reported that fact because it is a fact: the SPLC has designated the ADF as a hate group.

The ADF has repeatedly said that gay people are pedophiles, called homosexuality “evil,” and said that LGBTQ rights lead to the “sexual exploitation” of children. They want the government to criminalize homosexuality “to protect society at large” and they decry the “homosexual agenda,” a nefarious scheme to destroy Christianity.


But Sessions called the designation a “weapon.”...................................
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US. Attorney General Jeff Sessions reads his prepared opening statement after being sworn in to testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Washington DC, June 13, 2017.

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