Posted on 08/17/2012 4:12:14 PM PDT by IbJensen
CNSNews.com) – The man who shot a security guard at the Family Research Council (FRC) on Wednesday was “given a license” to do so because of groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that have labeled the FRC a “hate group,” said FRC President Tony Perkins.
The SPLC has posted what it calls a "Hate Map" on its website that points to the FRC as a "hate" group located in Washington, D.C..
Before a gunman shot a security guard at the FRC, the Southern Poverty Law Center had posted the FRC on its "hate map." The map and SPLC listing of "hate organizations" equates groups such as the Family Research Council, which promotes the traditional Christian view of marriage and sexuality, with racist groups that violate Christian teaching on human dignity.
On Wednesday, 28-year-old Floyd Lee Corkins of Herndon, Va., allegedly entered the lobby of the Family Research Council and shot the security guard. According to the FBI, Corkins had a 9mm handgun, two magazines of ammunition, 50 rounds of additional ammo and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches in his backpack. According to the FBI, he “stated words to the effect of ‘I don’t like your politics.’”
(Chick-fil-A was recently castigated by homosexual activists and some Democratic lawmakers because its CEO expressed the belief that marriage is the union of one man and one woman.)
At a press conference on Thursday outside the FRC headquarters in downtown Washington, FRC President Perkins said, “I want to express my appreciation to the groups and organizations that we do not agree with on many public policy issues who have also expressed their outrage at what took place here yesterday. For that, I appreciate it. I appreciate them making those statements.”
“But I would ask them to go a step further and to join us in calling for an end to the reckless rhetoric that I believe led to yesterday’s incident that took place right behind me,” he said.
“And that does bring me to my final point,” said Perkins. “Let me be clear, that Floyd Corkins was responsible for firing the shot yesterday that wounded one of our colleagues and our friend Leo Johnson. But Corkins was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy.”
“And I believe the Southern Poverty Law Center should be held accountable for their reckless use of terminology that is leading to the intimidation and what the FBI here has categorized as an act of domestic terrorism,” he said. “There’s no room for that in a society such as ours that works through differences that we have on issues in public policy through a peaceful means.”
The suspect, Floyd Corkins, had been volunteering for the last six months at The DC Center for the LGBT Community. The DC Center released a statement condemning the violence, which was signed by 40 other local and national LGBT groups.
“We were saddened to hear news of the shooting this morning at the offices of the Family Research Council,” read the statement. “Our hearts go out to the shooting victim, his family, and his co-workers.”
During the press conference outside of the FRC building, Perkins said designating organizations as “hate groups” for disagreeing with public policy positions is harmful.
“It marginalizes individuals and organizations, letting people feel free to go and do bodily harm to innocent people who are simply working and representing folks all across this country,” he said.
Perkins dismissed the notion that the suspect was just an “unhinged individual” when asked by reporters.
“How many unhinged individuals walk around with 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches and 50 rounds of ammunition?” he said.
CNSNews.com on Thursday left repeated messages with the Southern Poverty Law Center seeking an interview to discuss the Family Research Council and its designation on the SPLC's "Hate Map." The SPLC, however, did not respond before this story was posted.
The DC Center for the LGBT Community should be labeled a hate group because it was one of their people who attempted to murder people at the FRC. The Southern Poverty Law Center is a co-conspirator to attempted murder.
I see more hate and intolerance coming from liberal groups who condemn conservative groups simply because the conservative groups hold traditional points of views.
Has the Southern Dipstick Law Center made any statement to the attack?
Morris Dees is an evil little man.
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Bingo...
Where is the outrage like when Palin put Giffords on her target list?
the SPLC is a hate group pur ena dsimple, even on their site they link to media matters, daily KOS etc.
The SPLC needs to be sued because you can bet Dees would have jumped on this if the roles were reveresed, . Givt a bit of his own medicene and see how he likes to fork out millions.
funny how this crap we call the media glossed over this shooting and ignored how the SPLC and the comments from th eleft pshed this gy over the edge and funny how they ignore the homo equation of all this just like they ignored the Manning aspect when it became public he was a homo and gave the secrets away because of the homo agenda
"But what cases we do in the future will change with the issues of the times, and who knows what those will be. I have no way of knowing." --Morris Dees 5-1-11I didn't know that much about him but found this interview conducted in May, 2011.
Were did the shooter get his hatred? A gay group? The SPLC? Where?
The organization has nothing to do with the south, poverty, law or the center, it is a leftist shill group of self-serving know-it-all ninnies.
Jack Maybolt
The Queen of all hate groups — SPLC
“Morris Dees is an evil little man.”
Man???? You sure?
Socialists
Progressives
Liberals
Communists
SPLC is on MY Hate Map as they hate good decent folk with a sense of morals in that they work hard to force perverts into our society.
If you try to destroy a society you must hate it. So SPLC is on my Hate Map..
Does Soros financially support the SPLC?
Morris Dees for years has found a way to make a living without actually doing anything.
Those Spicy Chicken Chick-Fil-A sammiches must be really good !
SPLC should be taken out with one law suit. This is it.
Bankrupt the petty man.
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