SPLC in the sights of the Religious Right

[ck4829]

It is no secret that Religious Right groups do not particularly like the Southern Poverty Law Center, especially ever since it started keeping a list of "Active Anti-Gay Groups" that includes groups like the Family Research Institute, Watchmen on the Walls, and Traditional Values Coalition.

MassResistance is also featured on the list, and is now fighting back, claiming that the SPLC secretly wrote the Department of Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism that was released last year.

MassResistance links to an article by Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, who asserts that this is the case.

DeWeese provides no evidence or documentation for the allegation that the SPLC drafted the DHS report ... but that doesn't matter, as the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is already accepting it as truth and is therefore demanding that Congress must "defund the Southern Poverty Law Center".

Where the CADC got the idea that the Federal Government subsidizes the SPLC is anybody's guess, since they cite absolutely nothing to support the claim.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/newest-right-wing-crusade-defund-splc

Hey, religious right, if you want to destroy the Southern Poverty Law Center, you'll need to get in line... behind the KKK, Neo-Nazis, and other white supremacists.

Just a little bit telling, huh?

[EFerrari]

1. Thanks for posting this.

:kick:

[yellerpup]

2. Just sent them a check last week.

They are a great organization. :kick: & GP for you!

[safeinOhio]

4. Me too, my favorite people

to donate to..

[yellerpup]

10. They get results in court

and their approach to problem solving is smart and effective. They make good use of the donations they receive. :hi:

[pinboy3niner]

3. Looks like they're making SPLC the new ACORN

They can try, but they won't succeed. K&R

[icymist]

5. They're attacking a group of lawers with botched 'evidence'?

:rofl:

[ck4829]

6. Excellent point. I remember when they made Michelle Malkin shut up.

These homophobe nutjobs are running into a mine field.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. Not surprising

The religious right is the mothership for all the hate groups that SPLC monitors and reports on.

America needs to wake up: the religious right in any country in any religion is the closest thing to Satan that actually exists.

[Kievan Rus]

8. Anything that doesn't conform to their....

anti-choice, anti-1st Amendment, anti-democracy, anti-gay, anti-Muslim, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-freethinking, anti-woman, anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-government bigotries is automatically suspect to them.

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

expressing their guilt by going on the defense

[surrealAmerican]

11. It's interesting that this ...

... christian group assumes that anyone whose mission is to help the poor must be funded by the government. It says something about what they consider their own responsibilities to be in society.

[UTUSN]

12. K&R #25 for SPLC, one of the all time top-of-the-line n/t