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A Charity Database Now Highlights Hate Groups, So the Christian Right Is Angry
June 23, 2017 by Hemant Mehta
The Southern Poverty Law Center may be best known for its Hate Group database. It keeps track of organizations like the KKK that promote irrational hatred of people who arent white and Christian groups that preach inflammatory anti-gay rhetoric by spreading lies about homosexuality. To be sure, most groups dont make that list. Megachurches that oppose marriage equality, for example, arent considered hateful by SPLC standards. Neither are groups like Focus on the Family despite the hateful things that James Dobson used to say.
The hate group designation is one may groups have fought against, saying that SPLC is attacking them for their Christian beliefs. Thats a lie. SPLC doesnt care if youre Christian or not. But if you spread misinformation like saying gay adults exhibit predatory behavior and try to recruit children youve crossed the line.
Thats why groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, Liberty Counsel, Family Research Council, and the American Family Association make the list.
And now that designation may hurt them even more.
GuideStar, the non-profit database that posts publicly available tax documents for charities, has now added a Hate Group tag on all organizations that fit the bill.
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http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/06/23/a-charity-database-now-highlights-hate-groups-so-the-christian-right-is-angry/
tanyev
(42,511 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 23, 2017, 06:15 PM - Edit history (1)
I wondered what had triggered that.
GeorgeGist
(25,308 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,652 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)They so deserve it.
Moostache
(9,895 posts)Those pieces of shit can all fucking choke to death and I will intentionally try to trip people looking to do the Heimlich on them.
They are evil regressive pieces of human excrement and the world instantly becomes a better place the second they stop consuming oxygen and other resources.
Initech
(100,027 posts)These groups can all go to hell.
Hekate
(90,515 posts)Orsino
(37,428 posts)It is weakness masquerading poorly as strength.