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Family Research Council Demands Apology for ‘Hate Group’ Label

The Family Research Council, a prominent voice in social politics, is demanding an apology from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the liberal nonprofit group declared the Christian conservative organization as a “hate group” because of their anti-gay rhetoric.

FRC president Tony Perkins is fighting back, accusing the SPLC of engaging in a “deliberately timed smear campaign.” Fox News reports:

This week the SPLC listed 18 “hate groups” — the FRC among the most prominent of them — which the law center says “have continued to pump out demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other sexual minorities.”

Perkins responded with a published statement Wednesday, blasting the SPLC for being a “massively funded liberal organization that operates under a veneer of public justice when, in fact, they seem more interested in fundraising ploys than fighting wrongdoing.”

He called “on the Southern Poverty Law Center to apologize for this slanderous attack and attempted character assassination.”

Eighteen different groups were singled out by the SPLC as “hate groups.”  While the SPLC’s magazine, “Intelligence Report,“ claimed that ”viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate group,” editor Mark Potok criticized FRC’s Perkins as a “key critic of anti-bullying programs.”

“The leaders of this movement may deny it, but it seems clear that their demonization of homosexuals plays a role in fomenting the violence, hatred and bullying we’re seeing,” Potok said.

The SPLC’s description of FRC focuses mostly on research fellows Tim Dailey and Peter Sprigg, who are charged with circulating “false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia.”

In 2008, the mag notes, Sprigg was asked about uniting gay partners during the immigration process and responded, “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them.”  Though Sprigg later apologized for the remark, the SPLC continued to criticize subsequent statements that suggested gay behavior should be allowed and that the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell would result in more accounts of sexual assault in the military.

With this designation, the SPLC equates the FRC with such notorious groups as the Ku Klux Klan, New Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam and Aryan Nation.

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  • New-American-Saviors
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:59am

    Just another of the Socialist Racist tactics that Instigate and provoke People. The Socialists are attempting the same divide and couquor methods they used in the 60′s to hopefully incite Violence.
    Gone so far as to Come out of the Closet as Socialists. And proclaim to (Bully?) us.
    Supporting the Gays ? They’d support anyone and anything that would get them a paycheck.

    This Flavor of the week is the Gay Issue. Last Month Immigration. ALWAYS Social Justice. But Equality is supposed to be earned,even though Lincoln used in in a speech. So this week you Advocate for Gays against a Church or Organization that reflects the majority vote.
    Gotta keep Justifying that 501.C3 Status.

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  • NeoFan
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:48am

    The SPLC also considers anyone engaging in a heterosexual marriage with offspring (A Family) a hate group as well as anyone that attends church, works a non-criminal job, prays etc.

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  • Arc
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:07am

    The SPLC is a far left organization and spends just as much time denigrating conservatives, Republicans and anyone who holds firmly to the belief that the Constitutuion is the best approach to life , Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I fully supported the SPLC for many years UNTIL they went after Glenn Beck, Bill O Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. I am 100% for civil rights as I am equally for the US Constitution. The SPLC seems to be drifting toward the line of thinking that reminds us that we should all be POLITICALLY CORRECT even when that goes against the Constitution. Morris Dee’s intentions were and probably still are Honorable and I support anyone who fights for equality. When that fight for equality takes on a poitically correct approach, I’ll draw a line there. Beck, O’Reilly, Limbaugh and Coulter are not in the same category as the Klan, Skinheads and any white supremist and the SPLC does an injustice by painting them with the same brush. So. SPLC, call them as they are, not what you want them to be.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:35am

    let’s see, gay men want to have sex with little boys and boys and teenagers so they can teach them homosexuality. gay men want homosexuality to be taught as early as 1st Grade in schools so the little boys can “decide” if they want to be homosexuals and so they will know how to SUBMIT to sex with a man. isn’t that called PEDOPHILIA.

    isn‘t obama’s school czar that gay guy who encouraged a teenager to keep having sex with an old deviate?! so, since that gay guy is a fan of NAMBLA, and he said that to a kid, he must be a pedophile TOO. of course obama is fine with that, just ask Larry Sinclair in Chicago.

    any deviate teacher “teaching” OUR kids about homosexuality and preaching that is a CHOICE our kids should make so they can be more easily raped by some pedophile gay deviate democrat is going to meet the wrath of some very angry straight American males AFTER our women get done with the pedophile and we have Native American in our ancestry.

    screw obama’s laws protecting these deviates. obama wants our children assaulted by his buttbuddies and he has his SPLC hard at work on his agenda to demonize GOOD STRAIGHT CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVE AMERICANS. just one more attack on AMERICAN VALUES.

    joke will be on these gay democrats once they empwer sharia law in America, because 1, WE will not help defend these gay deviates, and 2, islam says KILL the homosexual by fire or hurl it off a cliff.

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on May 6, 2012 at 1:59am

      Good point! These people are too cowardly to go after Islam for “homophobia” yet they will bully anyone who they think will not fight back. There is nothing wrong with believing marriage is between a man and a woman since it is better for society and for raising kids.

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  • fatlibertarian
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:33am

    As a gay person I’m not a fan of the Family Research Council. But then again, they’re not a fan of me. lol. At this point in my life I could care less what you fundamentalists think. Enjoy your life and I’ll enjoy mine. Peace.

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    • jdawg
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:01am

      You misunderstand Christianity and the FRC. It isn’t you, per se. Christ teaches to hate the sin but love the sinner, because we ALL are sinners and fall short of the glory of God. It’s a shame that you have been fed the left wing lies for so long.

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    • VindexPoplicola
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:22am

      Apparently you do care what “fundamentalists” think because you took the time to post. If you didn‘t care you wouldn’t post.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:41am

      I think “homosexuals” identify their whole person with the term. It becomes “who” they are instead of being a term applied to the acts they may do. Thus, in their eyes, it sounds lame to say “we hate the sin and love the sinner.” But they forget that we are all sinners, and there are a myriad of sins. A good sinner can turn something intended for good into something bad – sound familiar? It is the scriptures that describe what a Holy God would prefer we do, kind of like an “owners manual” from the inventor or maker. “Change your oil every 3,000 miles” is a good target, but many, perhaps most, do not do that for one reason or another. The car still runs, but the effects may not be seen for years or thousands of miles. All sins are problematic. All have bad effects, even if there is an immediate reward (saving money in the short term only to have to spend even more to replace an engine or the entire vehicle sooner than otherwise). Homosexual acts fall into this category as does all sin. Best to try to live life according to the “owners manual” of the inventor or creator, who knows far more about the created than they will ever know. The Creator loves perfectly, we cannot but try.

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    • BRAVEHEART
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:53pm

      I agree with Sparky 101 Homosexuality tends to consume the entire individual like an organic disease. To define your total self or being as a HomoSEXUAL seems overtly SEX CENTERED and SELF centered to me. This is a very dangerous development and may explain why they see nothing wrong with pedophilia and feel justified in recieving financial help for their diseases from straights. Predatory behavior becomes justified also.

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  • wash1776
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:32am

    It is weird how the truly HATE GROUPS put that label on everyone else. These outfits are just like Obummer. They think everyone is stupid and will swallow anything they say. IN YOUR DREAMS!!

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    • TurboCat
      Posted on May 6, 2012 at 2:04am

      And for the militant gay activists and the ‘gay pride parade’ spectacle, can’t you keep anything private? No one wants to know your private business, so GET BACK IN THE CLOSET!

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  • WISEPENNY
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:26am

    Don’t forget to list Yaweh on the suit, although it may be kind of tough to subpoena him for a deposition. here is where He stands on the matter: Romans 1:26
    For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, spiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

    (Don’t forget one thing; there will be a subsequent appeal and any guilty verdict overturned with impunity on Judgement Day regardless of how hig a court this frivilous suite gets to! Woe, Woe, Woe! To the inhabitants of the Earth for, reason of their iniquities). LOL

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    • WISEPENNY
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:35am

      I assume the requested apologie WILL be to serve a summons. No one is even about to apologize.

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    • jdawg
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:58am

      Bible also says that EVERY knee will bow and EVERY tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. Unfortunately, for some, it will be under condemnation.

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    • tmarends
      Posted on November 29, 2010 at 6:00pm

      @WISEPENNY

      You quote Romans 1, but start as verse 26. Why? The verse STARTS with “For this cause” or “For this reason” in some tranlations. For What cause or reason?? What is the reason or cause that God gave up on the people Paul is talking about? To understand THAT you MUST go back a few verses.

      Romans 1:21-23 “21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.”

      These are the people Paul is talking about in verses 26-31 — IDOL WORSHIPPERS.

      Now, you can read those verses to be against homosexuality… but that is not how I read them.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:22am

    the SPLC in itself is one huge pure HATE group personified. it is full of angry bitter gay democrat and anti-white racist-***** groups.. and they expanded to include the anti-American muslims (sleeper cell terrorist/Ground Zero victory-mosque) groups. if their fuhrer obama is against a group, they are against a group. and we all know full well now that obama is against any group in America who will not bow to him and soros. obama is un-American, anti-American, anti-Christian, and very very much anti-White American.

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    • green_manalishi
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 4:31pm

      Burnthills , Your another who woke up and saw the hypocracy and double dealings of the SPLCenter. They are an obviously misnamed hate group that seeks to mislead others by preying on peoples ignorance and their gullibility to symphasize with misleading labels. They fund themselves by getting old people to leave their estates to them, all in the pretense of fighting prejudice and poverty. Instead they end up leaving their money to the very devil of hatred himself (Mark Potock). Don‘t let anybody you know give money to these turkeys and when the New Congress is sworn in and begins investigations I’ll be more than happy to be a witness against the SPLCenter. Word up!

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:57am

    Hate = everything libs don’t like

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:21am

      is that an attepmt at a slogan?

      i shake my head at your lack of savy but aplaud your effort.

      keep it up. all politics derives great power from hate in the defense of love. love for ____(fill in the blank)
      hate of _____(fill in the blank)

      it is not easy to say much with just a few words.

      never stop trying!

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  • UlyssesP
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:53am

    Allah will burn the flesh off the infidel homosexual a thousand times over.
    At least that’s what “they” told me down at the friendly neighborhood mosque.

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  • bubbie
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:37am

    Jesus is coming soon!

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  • jdawg
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:35am

    No muslim groups were mentioned, and they are much harder on homosexuality than Christians.

    http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/southern-poverty-law-center-targets-christian-organizations-as-hate-groups

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  • BRAVEHEART
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:35am

    Those who defend perverse behavior are perverse themselves. Those who defend deviant sexual behavior are enemies of the family and enemies of moral society. The SPLC is an enemy of civil moral responsibility and a defender of perversion and deviant sexual behavior.

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  • jdawg
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:31am

    Interesting they don’t include any muslim groups in that list, and they have far worse views on homosexuality than Christians.

    http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/southern-poverty-law-center-targets-christian-organizations-as-hate-groups

    But, hey, if you’re liberal, you can do anything you want, because you can decide at a moments notice what “hate” or “racism” is,

    http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/a-voters-guide-to-political-terms-the-2010-elections

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:54am

      i think you misread the intentions of most liberals who defend muslims.

      I think they are trying to keep ignorant christians from declaring holy war on muslims in return for the holy war ignorant muslims declare on christians (both scriptures support these sentiments). it seems a fools errand delaying the enevitable on the part of these leftists but this seems to be their goal.

      try looking at these occurances through that window and not the one that is being presented by the christian apologists on the right.

      hope this idea helps

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    • BRAVEHEART
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:41am

      Try looking at Islam as a radical form of communism or Fascism with its own Law ( sheria ) its own tyrants ( the Iman’s ) its own SS ( the jihadist and Hamas ) and its belief that it rightfully owns the whole world and is justified in terror and murder to achieve domination. Stop looking at Islam ( Muslims ) as some simple generic religion which it isn’t and never will be!

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  • Conserving Ink
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:30am

    “false accusations linking gay men to pedophilia.”

    Sorry, the numbers don’t lie. “The report entitled ‘Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse’, shows that while homosexual men make up less than three per cent of the adult male population, they commit a disproportionate number (one third or more) of child sexual molestations.”

    The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is not a heterosexual group by any stretch of the imagination. It is also a respected group in G/L circles.
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    • drajhil
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 4:11am

      This is an excellent demonstration that the so-called Family Research Council does not do genuine research, but merely acts as a right wing propaganda machine. Timothy Dailey of the FRC misrepresents the data of real scientists in order to distort their conclusions. Although Dailey doesn’t report it (for obvious reasons), all of the scientists whose numbers he uses, draw diametrically opposite conclusions from his. Specifically they reject the assertion that homosexuals commit relatively more sexual assaults on children than heterosexuals. For a detailed account of the studies, including statements by the research scientists themselves, you should read “Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse: Science, Religion, and the Slippery Slope” by Mark Pietrzyk at http://www.internationalorder.org/scandal_response.html.
      For example, Dr. Gene Abel, whose data is cited frequently by the FRC, states explicitly: “Most men who molest little boys are not gay.” Did you get that: they’re “n
      Distorting scientific data in order to support prejudice is gross and stupid. It’s also a principal reason for condemning the FRC as a hate group. If you want to ignore scientists’ own words and conclusions and twist their scientific data to justify your biases, then you’re clearly a hater too.

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    • what4
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:15am

      There is no family in GAY, nothing more needs saying!

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:39am

      Drajhil, a book is not research. Please guide us to the research papers proving the statements you proclaim. What you say is interesting when you think of the priest scandals. Notice that most all of the instances reported did not involve pedophilia, but were grown men and post-pubescent males. Another term eitirely is applied to such actions, but the media refused to use it. Pedophilia is quite different, dealing with pre-pubescent boys and girls. But, even giving you that easement, consider that only one sex has formed a national group, the North American Man-Boy Love Association, NAMBLA.

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  • GadsdenGurl
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:26am

    Of course! WE are all listed there as cells of TPE and TPP even when we’re not associated and have done nothing hateful, but that is SPLC’s way of libeling people.

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  • @leftfighter
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:22am

    No truth to required support a Leftist ‘hatred’ charge.

    Sad part is, they don‘t realize we’ve caught on to their game. We know words mean nothing to them. We know they’ll say literally anything regardless of any basis in fact, and, frankly, it doesn’t faze us anymore.

    As I’ve said countless times on Twitter, if you’re a Conservative & are labeled a racist/hate monger/bigot/homophobe/etc, it must be (insert day of the week here).

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:28am

      In May 2010, various media sources reported that George Rekers, a self-described anti-gay activist, recently hired a male escort through rentboy.com. In response, rentboy.com issued a press release saying “We remain open-minded and devoted to privacy for the people who use our site, but… If you’re a famous heterosexual homophobe and you appear in public with a rentboy with your pants down, you’re just asking for trouble.”

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:01am

      13th degeneration: Maybe Obama transsexual nanny TSA-ed him while mommy was out being a good commie.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 8:30am

      @13th, are you getting the feeling you have been recognized as a troll which should not be fed??

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    • HairRazor
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:15pm

      The kkk, black panthers (new & old), nation of islam, and Family Research Council are hate groups they say. Three out of four’s not too bad for the stricken poor law center (splc)…

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  • Rock_Thrower
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:22am

    Seems to me that the Southern Poverty Law Center is inciting Religious Hatred.

    As we just read is happening in UK by burning a Koran

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  • IVillageIdiot
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:18am

    Why not SUE the SOBs?

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    • GadsdenGurl
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:36am

      We‘ve threatened to sue them for putting our tea party on the pin point map of ’hate groups’. That is directly a tactic of SPLC. But no response.

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:18am

    George Alan Rekers, a prominent anti-gay activist and cofounder of the conservative Family Research Council, recently returned from a 10-day trip to Europe with a male escort who advertises on a Web site called Rentboy.com, according to a May Miami New Times article that was lighting up the liberal blogosphere and gay media outlets Wednesday.

    The hypocrisy know no bounds and yes they are a hate group of mixed up homosexuals

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:35am

      On May 12, Christianity Today reported that Rekers stated on his personal website that he had interviewed several people for the role of travel assistant, and was not aware of his assistant’s internet advertisements. He e-mailed them saying “I confessed to the Lord and to my family that I was unwise and wrong to hire this travel assistant after knowing him only one month before the trip”, saying he was unaware that his “travel assistant” was “more than a person raised in a Christian home”. Rekers explained his regrets for the harm caused by his “unwise decision”, and that he was being advised by “an experienced pastor and counselor from my church, so I can more fully understand my weaknesses and prevent this kind of unwise decision-making in the future”. On his resignation from NARTH he said “I am not gay and never have been.” The scandal became popular fodder for media commentators and comics. Frank Rich of the New York Times wrote: “Thanks to Rekers’s clownish public exposure, we now know that his professional judgments are windows into his cracked psyche, not gay people’s. But…his excursions into public policy have had real and damaging consequences on a large swath of Americans.”

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    • 13thGenerationAmerican
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:46am

      In subsequent interviews, Roman said Rekers had paid him to provide nude massages daily: “‘Jo-vanni’ in news reports, has told various media outlets that he gave Rekers daily massages in the nude during the trip, which included genital touching.” He also talked about how he believed that Rekers was, in fact, homosexual: “It’s a situation,” Roman said, “where he’s going against homosexuality when he is a homosexual.” According to the New Times, Roman “made it clear they met through Rentboy.com”,and denied that he had been hired to carry luggage; The Times reported that Rekers “hired a companion from a website called Rentboy.com that offers clients a wide range of choices, from ‘rentboy’ and ‘sugar daddy’ to ‘masseur’.”

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 6:43am

      Ponder this 13th degeneration: not one women has ever come out and said they dated Obama. Odd? Maybe Obama has spent some time on rentboy.com. I would bet big bucks The One is a pole smoker….

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    • M31Sailor
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:24pm

      13th

      Dan here. Seems that you are muttering to yourself. Calm down. Take a deep breath. Hope that Triptophan helped that nervous tick you’ve developed since the Blaze started burning you. Don’t even begin to think about the 2012 election when the second TEA Party tsunami wave crashes over the Democrat Party. Sweet Dreams
      Dan Foster

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    • JohnFourteenSix
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:38pm

      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 6, 2010
      CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Darin Miller, (866) FRC-NEWS

      FRC Statement on Dr. George Rekers

      WASHINGTON, D.C. – Family Research Council President Tony Perkins (FRC) released the following statement in response to calls regarding Dr. George Rekers and his connection with the Family Research Council:

      “In the past 24 hours FRC has received calls regarding Dr. George Rekers and his connection with the Family Research Council. After reviewing the historical records we did verify that Dr. Rekers was a member of the original Family Research Council board prior to its merger with Focus on the Family in 1987.

      “Reports have been circulating regarding Dr. Reker’s relationship with a male prostitute. FRC has had no contact with Dr. Rekers or knowledge of his activities in over a decade so FRC can provide no further insight into these allegations.

      “While we are extremely disappointed when any Christian leader engages in the very activities that they ‘preach’ against, it is not surprising. The Scriptures clearly teach the fallen nature of all people. We each have a choice to act upon that nature or accept the forgiveness offered by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and do our best to ensure our actions, both public and private, match our professed positions.”

      http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=PR10E01

      Be Blessed!!!!

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    • ClockKing
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:34pm

      You been kinda stuck on this hypocrisy thing for a while now. What’s up? Somebody hurt you?

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  • jen2012
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:14am

    The usual Left-Wing nut cases that don’t like people that disagree with them.

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  • staythecourse
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:14am

    As people speak out against the liberal/progressive agenda more and more groups will be identified as “hate” groups. We will begin to see a time of persecution of Christians as never before seen in this country.

    I was surprised to see that there is a movement to claim that child baptism is now considered by some to be “child abuse”. It seems everyone has rights except those who follow the the Christian faith as contained in the bible. It is interesting that the left repeatedly demands that the Ten Commandments be removed from public places. That is because their whole agenda violates everything about the Ten Commandments… right down to “coveting thy neighbor’s goods” (entitlement) and “do not steal” (taxation and redistribution). There is no getting around it. The bible does proclaim homosexuality as being “sin”. It will be interesting to see how the new translations of the bible that are coming out rewrite “the story”.

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  • J Albert
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:09am

    From the Descriptions, SPLC should be on their own list. They are generating a lot of hate mail and speech.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:30am

      Who funds SPLC ?
      I hope its not laundered taxpayer money tha fattens them haters

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 5:10am

      @Cheesewhiz

      Here are two of their listed board members and the groups they work from that I find of interest; also it seems all donators are annonymous…

      Robert Garcia
      National Public Radio
      Washington, D.C.

      Michael Godwin
      WikiMedia Foundation
      San Francisco, Calif.

      They have links to NPR and WikiMedia Foundation, so probability is high of good old Soros.

      Go to http://www.splc.org to see

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:14pm

      I wonder who LEAKED all those secret documents to WIKI that will embarrass the USA and point fingers at the Bush/Cheney administration for all the wrongs? Isn’t this what the LIBERAL LEFT has wanted all along?

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    • Dearoldad
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:54pm

      13th Gen Am is obviously disturbed and needs help, but more than we can give him/her. Again, I don’t buy even the 13th Gen part and the American part is getting harder to buy. One of you is right, he is just muttering to himself because none of us buys his clap trap nonsense. He actually is a plant from the PMSNBC crowd.

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  • CaptGregg
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:05am

    The SPLC is a farce. Their lists of “hate” groups and symbols far exceed any reasonable limits. When a term is used indiscriminately, it becomes irrelevant. (Look at how meaningless the term “racist” has become.)

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  • NickDeringer
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:02am

    “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.” – John 15:18

    SPLC is a hate group which focuses on Christians who simply believe what the Bible says.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:22am

      This attack sounds just along the lines of Obama’s spiritual advisor (such as it is) attacking Fox for the ‘spiritual assassination’ of the President. Seems like the administration and Soros are at work all the more now.

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:27am

      A man lying down with another man and believing it is wrong is not hate. Get a grip. Where is your accepantance? You believing otherwise and not accepting that view is hate.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:28am

      We get it SPLC,
      Christians are a hate group because they believe in Christ
      and
      White Castle is racist because they are white
      Black Friday is racist because its black
      Everyone is a hate group because SPLC hates them

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:50am

      Southern Poverty Law Center considers any group that has morals as a hate group. What a screwed-up world we live in. People that try to live a moral life are now consider the enemy.

      Personally, I think its high time that morality made a major come-back!

      PatriotShops.com

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:21am

      most important video you’ll ever see pass it on
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=fvw

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    • shane2813
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:41am

      Yep that’s about it.

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    • drajhil
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:22am

      The ironically named Family Research Council – which does no genuine research – is a right wing propaganda outlet with a long history of promoting prejudice and misunderstanding. The Southern Poverty Law Center is correct in identifying them as a hate group. The thing that gets me about these jokers is their selective use of the Bible. Anyone who reads the Gospels – surely the most worthwhile part of the Bible – with any degree of insight or objectivity understands that Jesus would have rejected the right wing’s nasty antigay agenda.

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    • tbone0106
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 4:05am

      No, no, Cheez. (And you are usually so spot-on!)

      Yes, White Castle is bad, evil and racist because it’s white.

      But Black Friday is OK. Black ANYTHING is OK.

      New Black Panthers? OK. Congressional Black Caucus? OK. National Black MBA Association? OK. Association of Black Cardiologists? OK. National Association of Black Journalists? OK. National Black Nurses’ Association? OK. National Association of Black Accountants? OK. National Black Prosecutors’ Association? OK. Black Business Association? OK. National Association of Black Social Workers? OK. National Association of Black Psychologists? OK. National Black Police Association? OK. National Black Business Trade Association? OK. Black Coaches Association? OK. Association of Black Sociologists? OK. National Black Farmers Association? OK.

      It’s the new/old PC, ya see.

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    • abc
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 5:24am

      Really bad editorialism here. Applying a “hate group” label to 18 different groups does not make them equally hateful, although the final line of this “news” clip makes that false assumption. Typical logical fallacies of the undisciplined right-wing mind…

      The FRC is widely known for undermining efforts to rein in attacks on homosexuals, including lobbying for states and cities to not report anti-homosexual hate crimes to the FBI, which about one dozen states–all red, and in the South, as would be expected–consistently fail to do. Why this failure? Perhaps it is because they wish to hide the fact that one of the groups most at risk of crime in this country are gay people. For all the talk about white males and Christians being threatened–or at least that would be the inference drawn when watching O‘Reilly’s annual war on X-mas tirades–gays are an at-risk group that need to be protected from the bullying or criminal activities of bigoted people who believe (falsely) that God or the Bible is on their side. To the extent to which the FRC has continued these activities, it is properly referred to as a hate group, especially considering the fact that crimes against homosexuals because of their sexual orientation has been defined legally as a hate crime. Of course, this logic and these facts will be ignored by the right-wing conservatives that prefer their fantasy narratives to cold hard facts.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 5:38am

      One of the premises of Christian thought is to “love the sinner and hate the sin”. Since Christians do not hate the sinner, laws would not apply. I suppose that the SPLC is just in favor of sin for the sake of sin. Groups like this that love sin for the sake of sin fall into a very narrow extreme (George Soros) category.

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    • NickDeringer
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 5:45am

      @drajhil
      That’s the most tortured understanding of scripture yet. You win the prize for hijacking the Bible for your own personal, political agenda.

      Jim Wallis may have a job for you.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:24am

      The SPLC and the ACLU crawled out from under the same rock. Wonder if anyone within those organizations ever met a Christian they liked?

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:42am

      They are gearing up for the 2012 election and already starting to put negative information out there for the undecided/uninformed voters (or illegal voters) to start processing. I am sure this is just the beginning of a very well organized slander machine. We can take it sitting down or keep swinging.

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    • Dstarr55
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:48am

      ABC – Your statement “applying a ‘hate group’ label to 18 different groups does not make them equally hateful” – if you are labeling them a hate group does it matter if you are at the bottom of the scale or at the top? To equate an organization that does not condone homosexuality as one that hates homosexuals is a stretch. Can you give some facts to this assertion that the FRC is ‘widely known’ for undermining efforts to rein in attacks on homosexuals and their lobbying efforts to ‘not report’ hate crimes against homosexuals? Right now your post falls into the ‘fantasy narrative’ description in you post. I am not disputing your claims – I just don’t see your facts. Side note: I don’t get the connection of Bill O’Reilly defending Christmas and how it relates with hate crimes against homosexuals – can you elaborate. Also since you are someone sensitive to hate speech and the power of words then know using X-mas takes Christ out of Christmas and can be offense to some Christians.

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    • JKN
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:26am

      This rogue group has been going after everyone! Just check their “Hate Map”… It appears that almost all of us here in America are a bunch of “haters.” If you’re against wide open borders and mass illegal immigration, you’re a hater; if you’re against gay marriage, you’re a hater; if you’re against their racial Progressive movement, you’re a hater… This anti-American group should have been shut down years ago. At the very least, not one more tax dime should be provided to this group…

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    • Highland
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:39am

      Absolutely. The only hating here is coming from the left.

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:45am

      Drajhil, while you are at it, please expound on your charge of a nasty anti-gay agenda. Like what is this agenda, what is its stated intent. Does FRC also have a “nasty anti-adultry agenda”? Do they also have a “nasty anti-thievery agenda”? Perhaps you could sum this up for us if you know as much as you claim.

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    • ron the veteran
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:37am

      let me make this perfectly clear…… if we did hate you youd be dead. we wouldnt play with you, we wouldnt put up with you, and we damn sure wouldnt care if you all were wiped out. but your all still here and living in peace. haters are muslums who think they got to kill isrealies. haters are the child molesters who kill. haters are domocommies who hate america and lie about everyone for their own gains. haters are the george soros’s of the world who think they can buy the world. dont turn us into haters you wont like us for real then we out number you. now if you dont like america the way its set up to be with our constitution, the rule of law and the Lord God as our guide. you can get the hell out planes are leaving at all hours of the day. im sure hugo chaves will welcome you as slaves to his country. but we God loving gun toting americans will keep our nation as we see fit. not as you commie loving dirt bags want it.

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    • tenring
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:58am

      THEPATRIOTDAVE,
      The good people of this great country are waking up and speaking out, this is upsetting the hard core left. Morality is charging back with a vengeance. I am afraid the pendulum of our social clock has moved so far left it’s now crashing back right. This will also be bad for our freedoms and security.

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:16pm

      middle class a call on you to rise up and end the era of progressive blue bloods repub and democrat…i hate to do endorsments cause im a political atheist, but we only have 2 patriots on the short list of candidates they are ron paul and sarah palin…the blue bloods have us by the b&lls with there special interests..we need to congregate and donate..they need money for our ideas to see the light of day..we need to beat them at their own game(FINANCING A CAMPAIGN)also the more people you get on board the better..RON paul said it himself that todays election are all about money. they’re gonna try anything to get us on their side, like romneys a business man and he saved companies and he can do the same…well guess what this is a country not a company and we dont need his help we can do it ourselves get out of our way we dont need you..they’re the problem and now he wants to save us..tell him to go back saving companies like dominoes that is suckking all the money from our mom and pop pizza shops..

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=fvw watch if you have time

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:32pm

      SPLC is nothing but a front group for progressives. If you do not think or act the way they want you to then you are considered an enemy of the SPLC. If there were any group which needs further scrutiny, it’s the SPLC. Go to their website and see for yourself.

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    • Dearoldad
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:43pm

      Amen, Amen and all of God’s people said, AMEN! Stand tall, Nickderinger! Right On!

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    • Dearoldad
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:48pm

      Hey ABC, Newsflash – Homosexuality is wrong any way you slice it. Now, I don’t support being mean to them, etc. etc. but no way should I or do I have to say that it is ok, it is not. Pointing out that it is not ok is not hate speech, but truth! Truth! Truth! Read any translation of the Christian Bible, read the Koran, read just about any complete “Bible” from the major religions and guess what, homosexuality is not ok. Having said all of this ABC, I do not want to persecute them nor even prevent them from living together, but don’t ask to get “married” and quit shoving their sexual choice in my face! Tough S___!

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    • cognitivedissonance
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:55pm

      Did Ron the Veteran just say he obviously doesn‘t hate homosexuals simply because he hasn’t murdered all of them yet?

      You people be crazy.

      Also, why does everyone seem to have such a memory for Leviticus and its archaic laws, but can never remember, “blessed are the meek”, or “whatever you do onto the least of these brothers you do on to me”, or “love your neighbor as thyself”, or every other time Jesus has encouraged people of faith to be supportive of others. Did Jesus ever punish anyone for their sins? Didn’t Jesus go to the homes of the outcasts in his society, didn‘t Jesus tell us to remove the plank from our own eyes before removing the speck from another man’s eye, didn’t he show compassion to all regardless of their sins?

      The Family Research Council is a group of judgmental individuals that have forgotten Christ’s lessons of compassion, don’t be Pharisees, don’t be moral policemen. Love one another, in spite of your disagreements as Jesus has instructed, don’t follow those who ask you to judge.

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    • Armed Patriot
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:56pm

      ABC… you want cold hard facts??? Christians believe falsely that God or the Bible are on our side??? Try reading the Bible some time you turd… Leviticus 20:13 If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them. Shut the hell up and quit speaking for God you lib troll.

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    • SRM152
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 12:46am

      Gospel Declarer: “A man lying down with another man and believing it is wrong is not hate”. Correct, rather he is a penultimate example of cognitive dissonance! It is like on a subliminal level he knows it is abhorrent but consciously he is oblivious to the fact that he is bereft of a moral campus to know right from wrong due to the lies and propaganda he has been subjected to. “Where is your accepantance?” Not a word so it is hard for us Tea Party folk to know what you mean; possibly, tolerance, acceptance or leniency? “You believing (what) otherwise and not accepting that view (which specific view?) is hate. Virtually meaningless, sparky!!

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    • cognitivedissonance
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:55am

      Have you ever worn a polyblend t-shirt or cut the corners of your beard? do you eat shellfish? Maybe you have touched a woman during her period or have a tattoo. These are all abominations along with “lying with another man”, this is old testament vindictiveness, not new testament forgiveness.

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    • ChrisBalsz
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 8:26am

      “The thing that gets me about these jokers is their selective use of the Bible. Anyone who reads the Gospels – surely the most worthwhile part of the Bible –”

      And we’ve always been at war with Oceania.

      “For all the talk about white males and Christians being threatened–or at least that would be the inference drawn when watching O‘Reilly’s annual war on X-mas tirades–gays are an at-risk group that need to be protected from the bullying or criminal activities of bigoted people who believe (falsely) that God or the Bible is on their side. To the extent to which the FRC has continued these activities, it is properly referred to as a hate group, especially considering the fact that crimes against homosexuals because of their sexual orientation has been defined legally as a hate crime. ”

      In a free country we can always dispute the laws too, instead of bowing our heads and saying “The State has spoken, who am I to disagree with the State”. Since when do we need federal protection against bullying?

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    • akim
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:08pm

      THE SPLC IS A BLACK SOVIET COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION.

      Everyone should attack this anti-American group and when Palin becomes President the org should be investigated. Bring back the House Un-Americans Activities Committee.

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    • brennus
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 9:11pm

      You absolutely hit the nail on the head with your reply. Unfortunately this SPLC. has a platform with the Obama administration and a mouthpiece with the main-stream-media. The upside is SPLC is talking to the choir. Only the progressives give them any creditability.

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