Speaking Against Homosexuality Labeled a Hate Crime · January 06, 2011
“The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says it will not back down from its decision to label the Family Research Council (FRC) and other socially conservative groups as hate groups,” together with radical, extremist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and other Aryan Nations for their views about homosexuality.
The FRC was placed on the list with 11 other groups such as the American Family Association, the Traditional Values Coalition. These conservative groups advocate the biblical marriage and family model, and values. Others such as the National Organization for Marriage and the Concerned Women for America were just classified as being anti-gay.
Tony Perkins, president of the FRC requested to have the SPLC retract the hate group designation, but SPLC Intelligence Project Director, Mark Potok, said that will never happen!
“Labelling people and groups as hate groups is laying the groundwork to then charge them with hate crimes using the full force of government to oppress people for their beliefs,” said Concerned Women America president Wendy Wright.
Potok says that the SPLC added the FRC to the hate group list because it claims that gay men molest children at higher rates than straight men, that gay activists want to eliminate age of consent laws, etc.
“We are not backing up, and we are not shutting up,” he said. “As long as they are pushing their radical social agenda, they are going to be waiting a long time before they are seeing a white flag from [us].”
The SPLC countered with a report against the FRC and similar groups’ anti-gay stance, titled “10 Anti-Gay Myths Debunked.” Perkins said “that the SPLC cherry-picked the scientific evidence it chose to cite against the Family Research Council and other similar groups in its related report… and ignored contrary evidence.”
The bible defines marriage as a monogamous, heterosexual committed relationship between a man and woman, and that any other forms of sexual unions are contrary to God’s will. Those who defend the biblical model of marriage and the family, and denounce these unbiblical practices, will likely be labelled as hate groups/individuals too.
“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot… Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” Luke 17:28, 30.
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