Southern Poverty Law Center Lists TVC As ‘Hate Group’

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Southern Poverty Law Center Lists TVC As ‘Hate Group’ By Andrea S. Lafferty

Executive Director, Traditional Values Coalition

March 13, 2008 – The Southern Poverty Law Center, (SPLC) headed by leftist attorney Morris Dees, has issued a new report on “hate” in America.
The SPLC claims that “hate groups” have increased by 48% since 2000 – and most of this increase comes from various anti-illegal immigrant groups that have been formed to lobby for the securing of our southern border. The SPLC considers it “hate” for Americans to fight to secure our borders against thousands of illegals and potential terrorists to infiltrate into the United States.

The SPLC has a long-standing reputation for manipulating statistics and exaggerating the extent of “racism” or “hate” in America. The group earns millions a year by making false claims about “hate groups” and the dangers they pose to America.
According to the SPLC, the Traditional Values Coalition is one of the main “hate groups” in America because we have alerted the American people to the imposition of a homosexual agenda upon our nation and children.
The SPLC fails to provide readers with any objective criteria as to what constitutes a hate group. But, judging from its lists of what is considers hate groups, apparently conservative and Christian groups are automatically considered hateful if they oppose liberalism or the homosexual agenda.
The SPLC has demonized the American Enterprise Institute, Jewish columnist Don Feder, Young Americans for Freedom, Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO), American Vision, Mass Resistance, headed by Jewish conservative Brian Camenker, and others – deceptively linking these individuals and organizations with neo-Nazis and KKK members.
As Don Feder has observed: “What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there’s a logical relationship between say, opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants.”
TVC is included as a hate group because of our stand against the radical homosexual agenda and the cancer of liberalism in our culture.

Interestingly enough, the Southern Poverty Law Center can’t seem to locate any hate groups on the far left or among Islamists in America who are seeking to destroy our nation from within.
It is well known that Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Society of North America, and other extremist Muslim hate groups operate in the United States, yet they’re not listed by SPLC as hate groups.
The SPLC can’t seem to locate leftist hate groups either. They don’t list the Communist Party, USA, the Workers World Party, Code Pink, MoveOn.org, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, People for the American Way or other leftist groups as spewing hatred from their web sites or from their leaders. Several of these groups openly seek the violent overthrow of our nation. I consider this “hate,” but apparently not the SPLC.
Judging from the SPLC web site and its listings of hate groups, the only people who aren’t considered haters are those who march in lock step to the liberal/homosexual/secularist agenda in our nation.
If you don’t agree with Morris Dees, and his cronies, then you’re a hate group and are vilified on their web site and in their press releases – which conveniently end up in the mainstream press.
The SPLC Is A Money-Making Machine
Morris Dees founded the SPLC in 1971 with Julian Bond, who currently heads the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Dees worked as a finance director for Senator George McGovern’s failed presidential run; worked for Jimmy Carter; and Senator Ted Kennedy when he ran for president in 1980.
Julian Bond still serves on the SPLC Board of Directors. Bond was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s and was involved in fomenting racial tension throughout the nation. Bond has praised longtime Communist Party leader James E. Jackson, Jr.; has charged that Republicans’ idea “of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side”; and demonized African-American conservatives as “black hustlers and hucksters” who, like “ventriloquists’ dummies, speak in their puppet master’s voice.”
The SPLC routinely attempts to discredit or demonize conservative or Christian organizations that oppose the liberal/homosexual agenda.
The SPLC pulls in millions each year, but actually spends very little on projects that help genuine victims of racism or poverty. The leadership of the SPLC are anything from poor. In 1998, the National Journal revealed that Dees earned tens of thousands more each year than the officers of 78 other advocacy groups.
Between 2001-2004, the SPLC received 59 foundation grants totaling more than $3 million.
In 2005, the SPLC had a budget of more than $152 million and had risen to $189.4 million by the end of 2005. Of the $28.9 million in expenses it declared by October 2005, only $4.5 million went for “providing legal services for victims of civil rights injustice and hate crimes.”
The leadership, however, endows itself with huge salaries. In 2005, Dees was making $297,559 in salary and pension-plan contributions.
According to Dees, “I learned everything I know about hustling from the Baptist Church. Spending Sundays sitting on those hard benches, listening to the preacher pitch salvation … why it was like getting a Ph.D. in selling.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s primary function appears to be to tarnish conservative and/or Christian groups that are attempting to hold back a flood of immorality upon our nation.
Its hysterical pronouncements should be rejected outright as the product of minds twisted by hatred of conservatives and Christians. It is the consummate hate group.
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