After the shooting of a Family Research Council security guard, social conservatives wasted no time in issuing blame. Their target: the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). This is an organization which monitors hate groups and hate crimes here in America. They have a list of groups they have labeled as hate groups based on a given organization’s track-record. In the last couple of years, the Family Research Council was added to this list as a result of their advocacy for the oppression (institutionalized and societal oppression) of LGBT Americans. The addition of the FRC to the SPLC’s hate group list is why social conservatives are saying that the recent shooting occurred.
The obvious problem here this: if the SPLC merely putting the FRC (and other similar organizations) on a hate group list and pointing out the organization’s homophobic track-record is enough to induce this shooting, then what about the things that social conservative groups have said about and against gay people? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander as they say. I submit to you that if the SPLC is culpable for what happened at the FRC, then the following persons and organizations, by their own logic, words, and actions, stand condemned as responsible for every instance of homophobia-related vandalism, assault, bullying, murder, and suicide:
Bryan Fischer, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, Scott Lively, Linda Harvey, Pat Robertson, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, David Barton, Cindy Jacobs, Ralph Reed, Ken Hutcherson, Andrew Shirvell
The obvious problem here this: if the SPLC merely putting the FRC (and other similar organizations) on a hate group list and pointing out the organization’s homophobic track-record is enough to induce this shooting, then what about the things that social conservative groups have said about and against gay people? What’s good for the goose is good for the gander as they say. I submit to you that if the SPLC is culpable for what happened at the FRC, then the following persons and organizations, by their own logic, words, and actions, stand condemned as responsible for every instance of homophobia-related vandalism, assault, bullying, murder, and suicide:
Bryan Fischer, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera, Scott Lively, Linda Harvey, Pat Robertson, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, David Barton, Cindy Jacobs, Ralph Reed, Ken Hutcherson, Andrew Shirvell
National Organization for Marriage, Concerned Women For America, American Family Association, Focus on the Family, Family Research Council, Americans For “Truth” About Homosexuality, Liberty Council, Exodus International, Catholic League
There are many other public figures and organizations that belong on these lists, but these are the most notable. There is a reason that they are considered hate groups and no matter how they try to blame others for what has happened, they have plenty of blame and more staring THEM right in the face.
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