Kudos to the Southern Poverty Law Center in adding anti-gay groups to their list of hate groups. A recent issue of the SPLC’s magazine, Intelligent Report, claims that gays are now the most targeted minority in America.
Being against gays per se does not lead to inclusion on the list, but "but name calling and spouting arguments against homosexuality that have been proven untrue did"
Among the list of organizations included on the hate list are 13 organizations that have stated a public policy that is anti-gay, including the Family Research Council, of a total of 18 groups.
...“The FRC does engage, certainly in our view, in the propagation of known falsehoods in an effort to defame gay people,”
What does the FRC respond with? Well the usual false studies since disproven (most child molesters are gay, they argue...and the old standard of the civil rights movement being hijacked by homosexual agenda groups).
The video from CBN news is worth watching for their "defense" of "not spreading hate"....
For more on the inclusion of anti-gay groups by the SPLC please check out: this url to the list of 18 groups.
Some statements by other groups on the list:
Abiding Truth Ministries serves mainly as a launching pad for an international anti-gay campaign. Its founder, Scott Lively, is also responsible for a book, widely cited by gay-bashers, accusing homosexuals of running the Nazi Party.
American Family Association
“[h]omosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and 6 million dead Jews.”
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality there was “a disproportionate incidence of pedophilia” among gay men and a proposed bill in California would “promote cross-dressing, sex-change operations, bisexuality and homosexuality” to kindergartners and other children
American Vision the occasional execution of “sodomites” would serve society well because “the law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectively drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back into the closet.” More recently, while hosting American Vision’s “The Gary DeMar Show” in December 2009, Joel McDurmon, the group’s research director, agreed that the Bible does call for killing homosexuals. And, he said, “when most of a society is Christian, is biblical, then it [execution of gays] is perfectly normal; it should definitely be in place.”
Chalcedon Foundation supported the death penalty for homosexuals, among other “abominators.” He also opposed what he called “unequal yoking” — interracial marriage — and “enforced integration,” insisting that “[a]ll men are NOT created equal before God” (the Bible, he explained, “recognizes that some people are by nature slaves”). Rushdoony also denied the Holocaust, saying the murder of 6 million Jews was “false witness.”
Concerned Women for America - there were only a “miniscule number” of anti-gay hate crimes and most of those “may very well be rooted in fraudulent reports.” and
gay activists were using same-sex marriage “to indoctrinate children in schools to reject their parents’ values and to harass, sue and punish people who disagree.” Last year, CWA accused the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a group that works to stop anti-gay bullying in schools, of using that mission as a cover to promote homosexuality in schools, adding that “teaching students from a young age that the homosexual lifestyle is perfectly natural … will [cause them to] develop into adults who are desensitized to the harmful, immoral reality of sexual deviance.”
The Family Research Council “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,” and [T]hey want to promote a promiscuous society.” AMERICAblog also reported that then-FRC official Yvette Cantu, in an interview published on Americans for Truth About Homosexuality’s website, said, “If they [gays and lesbians] had children, what would happen when they were too busy having their sex parties?”