Family Research Council: SPLC Created Environment That Led To Shooting

[maddezmom]

Source: TPM

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins took to Fox News Thursday to say groups that oppose his organization are responsible for creating the atmosphere that led to the shooting at its headquarters Wednesday.

“Let me be very clear here that Floyd Corkins was responsible for the wounding of one of our colleagues and friends at the Family Research Council,” Perkins said. “But I believe he was given a license to do that by a group such as the Southern Poverty Law Center who labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and stand for traditional orthodox Christianity.”

In late 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the FRC a “hate group” over its opposition to gay rights and condemnation of same-sex behavior. The SPLC rating put the FRC — long a mainstay in Republican political circles — on the same list as the Aryan Nations, Nation of Islam and KKK.

The FRC and other social conservative groups rejected the label. And in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting, which was allegedly perpetrated by a man who was opposed to the group’s politics, Perkins said the SPLC needs to watch its words.

Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/family_research_council_shooting_splc.php

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I agree with SPLC about the label.
http://www.splcenter.org/

edited to add:

Setting the Record Straight on the FRC's Hate Group' Designation

Submitted by Kyle Mantyla on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 4:46pm
Today, the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins held a press conference to comment on the shooting that took place at the organization's Washington, DC headquarters yesterday.

While Perkins put the blame for the attack on the shooter, he declared that the Southern Poverty Law Center was also responsible for the attack, saying the gunman "was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations 'hate groups' because they disagree with them on public policy."

Perkins claims that SPLC labeled FRC a "hate group" back in 2010 simply because "they disagree with [us] on public policy," and many in the media have parroted the claim. But it’s utter nonsense. As the SPLC explained, FRC received the designation "because of its dissemination of false and demonizing propaganda about gays and lesbians" and even produced a report chronicling FRC's long history of biased anti-gay activism complete with a collection of the sorts of claims made by the organization:

“Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual movement.”
— Robert Knight, FRC director of cultural studies, and Frank York, 1999

“[Homosexuality] … embodies a deep-seated hatred against true religion.”
— Steven Schwalm, FRC senior writer and analyst, in “Desecrating Corpus Christi,” 1999

“One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets' of a new sexual order.”
-1999 FRC pamphlet, Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex with Boys.

“[T]he evidence indicates that disproportionate numbers of gay men seek adolescent males or boys as sexual partners.”
— Timothy Dailey, senior research fellow, “Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse,” 2002

“While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate overlap between the two. … It is a homosexual problem.”
— FRC President Tony Perkins, FRC website, 2010

more: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/setting-record-straight-frcs-hate-group-designation

[JaneQPublic]

1. Time to make another donation to SPLC. (nt)

[maddezmom]

3. just added the link in the OP to their site, hope people take time to check it out.

[sybylla]

17. I love what SPLC does, but...

The last time I donated, they spent every dime of my $50 filling my mailbox with weekly (sometimes twice weekly) requests for more money. If I could donate anonymously, I would. But I'm not going to chance this crap again.

[greiner3]

22. So this is the only group;

You have EVER contributed to? President Obama has been on my for 5 years to contribute to his campaign. Ditto for the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, the A.C.L.U., the local food pantry, democrats in general, etc...

[JaneQPublic]

24. Yep, and not just letters.

Charities I give to waste money sending me calendars, note pads, greeting cards, calculators, throw blankets, caps, backpacks, address labels, wrapping paper, keychains...

[sybylla]

29. Nope, but they were the worst offender.

In fact, I give all the time to lots of orgs and candidates and the SPLC is still at the top of my list as the worst offenders. No one else has even come close to the crap I got from them.

Perhaps they have reformed since. Perhaps not. When I called them and asked them to stop sending me stuff, that I planned to be a regular contributor and didn't need to receive weekly spam in order to make that happen, they blew me off.

So I blew them off.

No body else has treated me this way.

But maybe I'm just more careful with whom I give my donations to.

[The Magistrate]

2. They Are So Cute When They Project, Ma'am

This can be taken seriously as soon as he owns up to every hate crime against a homosexual in this country....

"Ignorance can be cured but stupid stays stupid, even pills don't help."

[Angry Dragon]

4. When is he going to also list rush, beck, hannity, savage as

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people that use hate to incite violence??

edit: spelling of pig man

[Berlum]

5. RepubliKristian BizzaroWorld

they just make shit up, and then project their shitty shadow every which way -- never taking any responsibility for their own sick souls...so sad. I believe the Bibble warned about just such crap in the ENDTymes...

[bluestateguy]

6. While we can never condone what was done and we condemn it as despicable

It bears noting that for every act of politically motivated violence committed by a liberal against a social conservative, I'll name you 100 acts of violence against gays committed by manly he-men who thought that they were doing the Lord's work.

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. The Romans Would Have Fed Them To The Lions

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. FRC is a hate group. Now that their devoted love of the gun industry is turning on them

they can't take it when their hate spewing turns back in their face.

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. Two Words ...

Doctor ... Tiller!

To make that argument, TP would have to accept his role, personally and organizational, for the death of Dr. Tiller.

[atreides1]

13. Excellent Point

Thank you

[Blue State Bandit]

10. I feel for the security guard, but...

if Tony Perkins wants to play the equations game, when you spend years promoting laws, theories and people that threaten the freedom, security and is many cases, the very existence of large populations, domestically and internationally, you're bound to get some blow-back.

Pardon the comparison, but this is like Hitler crying foul about the deaths of German citizens in the last years of WWII. If he didn't decide to take over the world, it never would have happened.

I hope the guard gets better, and promptly quits working for these instigators.

[indepat]

11. Luckily none of the hate spewed by right-wing talking heads creates the atmosphere for a

shooting, and certainly not for a mass shooting. Yeah! Right-wing stochastic terrorists never create such an an atmosphere. Yeah.

[Dawson Leery]

12. Tony Perkins friends on right wing hate radio have created the environment

which led to OKC.

[JDPriestly]

14. The shoe is on the other foot now.

So, are the crazy bombers and shooters on the other side also inspired by groups like the Family Research Council and Rush Limbaugh? It would seem logical to assume that what works on one side works for the other, wouldn't it.

So, I take this as an admission that inflammatory rhetoric and namecalling incite violence.

Glad to see Tony Perkins taking some responsibility for the rash, the epidemic of violence against Democrats and left-wing leaders.

But I hardly think that this shooter would have been paying much attention to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

That's like saying that someone was inspired to commit murder by the Cato Foundation. Hotheads generally don't respond to intellectual arguments. Rather, they respond to situations or to rhetoric that incites on an emotional level like Rush Limbaugh.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is not really known to most people. And I have heard them talk about suing people, but not about shooting them or taking violent action of any kind.

[sa2968]

15. No one plays "victim" better than right-wing christians.

[AllyCat]

18. You said it. They are the first to cry "war on us!" everytime someone says something

they think is mean. Or anytime someone puts up a fight against their hate, they whine that they are being persecuted. Ugh.

[Iliyah]

16. Shootings. . . .

Seems like its getting worse. NRA is seeing $$$$$$$

[tandot]

19. FRC is giving bigots a license to commit hate crimes against gay and lesbians

as well as abortion providers without ever taking responsibility for many years.

They are a hate group.

[DavidL]

20. IF WE ONLY ... had been allowed to spread our hate without....

having anyone shine a light on us and point out how we were working to restrict the rights of fellow Americans, .......(none of this foolish gun crazy would have happened) ......basically what FRC is saying

[librechik]

21. knowing that this sort of thing is an old Republican trick

and sorry if i sound like freepers, but it wouldn't surprise me to discover that this guy was actually hired by conservative ops to cause a disturbance at FRC. They do use provocateurs.

no, can't prove it. Thank goodness no one was seriously hurt.

[Raster]

25. I would not doubt it either. Think about it, EVERY attack, save this one, has been....

certifiable reich-wing. And now... "poor pittiful us."

As you sow, so shall you reap.

[Stewland]

23. Ghandi

The great soul,Ghandi said it perfectly. When asked about his thoughts on Christians. "I love your Christ,but not your Christians because they are so unlike your Christ.". Tony Perkins and his FRC promote qualities that are not Christian. They don't know what they do.If they did know they would stop.

[Ian David]

26. Highest Number Of Anti-Gay Murders Ever Reported In 2011

Highest Number Of Anti-Gay Murders Ever Reported In 2011
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113718746

[Solly Mack]

27. If the SPLC calling a hate group a hate group provoked violence the

news would be filled with stories of right-wingers being attacked.

As it is, we have years and years of news articles of the LGTB community being attacked and murdered. Of doctors, such as George Tiller, being attacked and murdered. Of clinics being bombed and torched. Of Americans with brown skin being attacked and murdered. Of vandalism of Temples and Mosques.

[redqueen]

38. Thank you. That is a very important point. nt

[MADem]

31. Please delete this post--it is making the thread UNREADABLE. nt

[SunsetDreams]

30. testing reply on this thread

[Kali]

33. sorry to the OP for my part in disrupting your thread

thanks to admins for quick action!

[NYC_SKP]

34. You did the right thing by bringing it to everyone's attention.

Too bad that someone had to mess with you in the Meta post.

Good job, Kali!

[maddezmom]

35. No problem

it all got worked out and now it's gotten some extra kicks and eyes of those that wouldn't have seen it.

[and-justice-for-all]

36. The FRC is a hate group..

on par with Neo Nazism. But I do not believe that the SPLC had encouraged such an act, and when you utter garbage like this: “One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles as the ‘prophets' of a new sexual order.” Your not going to have many friends.

The shooting is wrong, but so is the FRC.

[redqueen]

37. Interesting.

The SPLC rating put the FRC —long a mainstay in Republican political circles —on the same list as the Aryan Nations, Nation of Islam and KKK.

[William769]

39. They are labeled as a hate group for good reason.

With that said violence is never the answer.