Attention, Members Of The Media: Here’s Why FRC Is Labeled A ‘Hate Group’

As a hardworking journalist, I am sick to death of well-paid mainstream media journalists coasting on the work — blatantly false work — of others. It’s time for you folks to start actually doing your own damn work. Try out the Google machine every once in a while and actually go to the source rather than copying what everyone else says. You folks got it totally wrong with the Chick-Fil-A debacle, let’s not screw this up too, OK?

So, direct from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), here is why the Family Research Council (FRC), and 17 other anti-gay organizations, are labeled anti-gay hate groups.

It’s not because they “defend the family and stand for traditional orthodox Christianity,” as FRC president Tony Perkins lied on Fox News today.

Direct from the Southern Poverty Law Center:

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.”

It’s not that the FRC stands for so-called “traditional” marriage. They are welcome to do that. It’s that the Family Research Council spreads lies and uses junk science that has been thoroughly discredited by practically every major medical organization to do so.

More from the SPLC about the Family Research Council:

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

Do you get the picture now?

Defending “traditional” marriage doesn’t make you a hate group. Lying about a group of people makes you a hate group.

Any questions?

(The SPLC has an additional 2373 words on the background of the Family Research Council explaining why they are labeled an anti-gay hate group.)

Want even more?

Read what SPLC’s Mark Potok writes about FRC here, and here.