Southern Poverty Law Center will designate the Family Research Council a ‘hate group’
The SPLC’s criteria for listing these organizations was “generally... based on their propagation of known falsehoods – claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities – and repeated, groundless name-calling.”
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On the SPLC’s own definition of “hate group.” (Since there is no legal definition, they just made one up.)
http://rkeefe57.wordpress.com/
“…a ‘hate group’ has nothing to do with criminality… [or] potential for violence…” Rather, as Potok put it, “It’s all about ideology.”
No crime, no violence, just “wrong thinking”.