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SPLC HATE GROUP LIST
December 2010
The
Southern Poverty Law Center
regularly updates their Hate Group
List and adds anti-gay groups to it
as their activities are monitored
and investigated. Most
recently, they have added the Family
Research Council to their list. Even as some well-known anti-gay groups moderate their views, smaller groups, most of them religiously motivated, have continued to pump out demonizing propaganda aimed at LGBT people.
SPLC's listing of Family Research Council and other groups is based on their propagation of known falsehoods (claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities) and repeated, groundless name-calling. Viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups.
These groups'
influence reaches far beyond what
their size would suggest, because
the "facts" they disseminate about
gay and lesbian people are often
amplified by certain politicians and
even news organizations.
Also, an SPLC analysis of 14 years of FBI hate crime data reveals that gays are targeted for violent hate crimes more than any other minority in America.
LINKS:
18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their
Propaganda SPLC Essay: The Anti-Gay Movement
ANTI-GAY HATE GROUPS
The Southern Poverty Law Center (Intelligence Project) monitors the activities of hate groups throughout the United States. Listed here is a sampling of anti-gay hate groups and links to their websites. Be advised, most people will find the content of the websites hyperlinked on this list to be offensive.
Abiding Truth Ministries www.abidingtruth.com American Vision www.americanvision.org Chalcedon Foundation www.chalcedon.edu Family Research Institute www.familyresearchinst.org (not to be confused with the Family Research Council) Mass Resistance www.massresistance.org Traditional Values Coalition www.traditionalvalues.org Watchmen on the Walls www.watchmenonthewalls.com Westboro Baptist Church www.godhatesfags.com
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FRED PHELPS
The Westboro Baptist Church is a fundamentalist religious organization headed by Fred Phelps and based in Topeka, Kansas.
The church runs numerous websites such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com and others expressing condemnation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews, as well as populations it believes are supporting the aforementioned groups, including Swedes, Canadians, Irish, British, and Americans.
The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation League, and is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Although well-known in LGBT communities for picketing gay pride events and funerals, the group achieved national notoriety for picketing funeral processions for soldiers killed in action during the Iraq War.
While its members identify themselves as Baptists, the church is an independent church not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations, nor does any Baptist institution recognize the church as a Bible-believing fellowship. The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles, though mainstream Primitive Baptists condemn Westboro Baptist Church and Phelps. Its first public service was held on the afternoon of Sunday, 27 November 1955.
The church bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary website, “God hates fags”, and expresses the idea, based on its Biblical eisegesis, that nearly every tragedy in the world is linked to homosexuality – specifically society’s increasing tolerance and acceptance of the so-called “Homosexual Agenda.” The group maintains that God hates homosexuals above all other kinds of “sinners” and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.
There is estimated to be no more than 150 members of Westboro Baptist Church, the majority of whom are Fred Phelps' family members (spouses, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren).
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