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Bill Sawa wrote:
> SPLC had added the Family Research Council to its "hate watch"
> list of what it claims are known "hate groups." The reason? The
> Council supports the traditional understanding of the term
> "marriage."

The laughable assertion: identifying hate groups by pointing out their 
hateful rhetoric is now hate speech.

http://www.splcenter.org/family-research-council-license-to-kill-claim-outrageous
"The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has 
knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people - 
not, as some claim, because it opposes same-sex marriage."

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/family-research-council
The Family Research Council (FRC) bills itself as "the leading voice for 
the family in our nation's halls of power," but its real specialty is 
defaming gays and lesbians. The FRC often makes false claims about the 
LGBT community based on discredited research and junk science. The 
intention is to denigrate LGBT people in its battles against same-sex 
marriage, hate crimes laws, anti-bullying programs and the repeal of the 
military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

To make the case that the LGBT community is a threat to American 
society, the FRC employs a number of "policy experts" whose "research" 
has allowed the FRC to be extremely active politically in shaping public 
debate. Its research fellows and leaders often testify before Congress 
and appear in the mainstream media. It also works at the grassroots 
level, conducting outreach to pastors in an effort to "transform the 
culture."

In Its Own Words
"Gaining access to children has been a long-term goal of the homosexual 
movement."
- Robert Knight, FRC director of cultural studies, and Frank York, 1999

"[Homosexuality] . embodies a deep-seated hatred against true religion."
- Steven Schwalm, FRC senior writer and analyst, in "Desecrating Corpus 
Christi," 1999

"One of the primary goals of the homosexual rights movement is to 
abolish all age of consent laws and to eventually recognize pedophiles 
as the 'prophets' of a new sexual order."
-1999 FRC pamphlet, Homosexual Activists Work to Normalize Sex with 
Boys.

"[T]he evidence indicates that disproportionate numbers of gay men seek 
adolescent males or boys as sexual partners."
- Timothy Dailey, senior research fellow, "Homosexuality and Child 
Sexual Abuse," 2002

"While activists like to claim that pedophilia is a completely distinct 
orientation from homosexuality, evidence shows a disproportionate 
overlap between the two. . It is a homosexual problem."
- FRC President Tony Perkins, FRC website, 2010

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Barb