Family Research Council accidentally admits truth about hate group charges
On two recent occasions, the Family Research Council has again attacked the Southern Poverty Law Center’s accusation that it passes along propaganda and bad information about the lgbt community.
But if you ask me, FRC should have left well enough alone.
The first instance was during a recent long-winded prayer to God expressing how the organization would like the so-called cultural battle in the United States to turn out.
FRC’s “prayer” encompassed such issues as Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, DADT, and ENDA.
But what caught my attention is this passage about supposed “Guerilla Warfare Against Conservatives:”
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) leader Joe Solmonese’s called upon homosexual activists everywhere to wage war against Tony Perkins for writing that Christian compassion requires speaking the truth about homosexuality; then the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) asserted and continues to assert that FRC is a “hate group” because it publishes social science data with which some homosexual activists disagree.
The section about “Christian compassion” actually links to the piece Perkins wrote in The Washington Post last year regarding the “supposed harms of homosexuality.” It’s the piece which he got justifiably grilled for deliberately distorting scientific data.
And that has a lot to do with the subtle change in which FRC addresses the problems with SPLC in the next passage of its prayer.
FRC interpreted the problem with SPLC calling it a hate group as simply because “it publishes social science data which some homosexual activists disagree”
This a big shift from what FRC and its supporters, such as Mike Huckabee, were initially claiming.
Originally, FRC said that it were under attack for upholding the “Judeo-Christian moral views, including marriage as the union of a man and a woman.”
Now, it seems that FRC is giving a tacit acknowledgment that the problems with SPLC goes beyond the organization’s supposed “Biblical beliefs.”