Hate Group Redefines Hate: “Nothing We Have Done Can Be Called Hate”

Peter Sprigg, one of the top-level executives at the certified hate group Family Research Council (FRC), actually said today that “nothing that we have done can reasonably be called ‘hate’.” Ironically, Sprigg’s comments alone had been noted last year by the Southern Poverty Law Center as being sufficient to classify FRC as a certified hate group.

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Sprigg was responding to the fireball that is what used to be called the Christian Values Network, now monikered as the Charity Give Back Group (CGBG), a for-profit group that donates (read: tax write-off, too) some of their profits to anti-gay hate groups like the Family Research Council and the American Family Association (AFA), and not-ready-for-prime-time-hate-group status groups like the Liberty Counsel.

To date, over 200 major companies have deserted CGBG because they want to do the right thing (small “r”) and be good corporate citizens.

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Once again we’re grateful to Brian Tashman of Right Wing Watch today for this report:

“It’s rather ironic that the AFA is helping the FRC denounce the pressure campaign against the CGBG, as the AFA itself led boycotts against Ford, Home Depot, Old Navy, Pepsi, and Glee along with pressure campaigns against Burger King, Toyota, Lexus and Cellular South to stop running ads on Glee and Google and Disney to drop out of the It Gets Better Project. But this double-standard should come as no surprise, as the FRC endorsed the AFA’s boycott campaign against McDonalds and led its own campaign against Wal-Mart.

“Sprigg and Freideman alleged that FRC is only facing a backlash from gay rights and women’s rights groups because the group oppose marriage equality. However, the AllOut.org petition urging companies to drop CGBC doesn’t mention the FRC’s position on marriage at all, instead focusing on FRC’s advocacy for laws criminalizing homosexuality, opposition to anti-bullying efforts and dishonest attempts to tie homosexuality to pedophilia.

Sprigg: People are afraid of the homosexual activists and they’re particularly afraid of this character assassination that comes in the form of the word ‘hate.’ Nobody wants to be accused of participating in ‘hate’ and so throwing that word  ‘hate’ around becomes a trump card even when nothing that we have done can reasonably be called  ‘hate.’ On the contrary, everything we do is motivated by love for the people who are hurt by this lifestyle.

Friedeman: Well, again I think what Tony Perkins has done and Peter Sprigg you by extension, you just say, we’re asking people, and AFA does this all the time as well, you urge retailers to remain neutral in the culture wars, the current cultural battles, particularly when you come down to something like homosexuality.

“The most effective way of reducing teen suicide attempts is not to create a ‘positive social environment’ for the affirmation of homosexuality. Instead, it would be to discourage teens from self-​identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual,” wrote Sprigg earlier this year, in response to a study that found that gay and straight teens who live in socio-​politically conservative areas are more likely to attempt suicide, and the degree of an area’s political conservatism reflects the degree teens — gay or straight — are likely to attempt suicide.

Of course, Sprigg has adverted for jailing homosexuals. An then there’s this gem: Sprigg in April strongly suggested LGBT blogger Perez Hilton is a pedophile.

Classy.

And, dangerous.

“Nothing that we have done can reasonably be called ‘hate’?” Apparently, very little you have done cannot be.

Jump ahead to 4:57 for the money quote.