Last week I posted a piece which noted that the Illinois Family Institute, AKA Laurie Higgins’ Dog and Pony Show of Irrational Hatred, had been put back on the SPLC anti-gay hate group list. It made sense, as Laurie has spent the last year encouraging Christian children to bully gay kids and making scurrilous Nazi comparisons. But then in researching a piece a couple of days later, I noticed that IFI was missing again. Well, for the record, I got a response from the SPLC, and apparently the IFI is still flying just under the threshold of hate required to be designated as a certified hate group, and is thus not on the list. For the record.
Should she be? Probably. But the SPLC has specific criteria, and apparently Laurie has learned how to send her bile out into the world while playing just cute enough with language to sneak by.
Does SPLC list the criteria they use to designate hate groups?
I’m surprised many of the organizations that are routinely blogged about on this site are not SPLC-certified hate groups.
When these large, anti-gay advocacy groups encourage bullying in schools; encourage hate crimes against law-abiding, taxpaying, gay Americans; prevent patriotic gay Americans from serving our country in the military and work to take jobs away from gay families, they should properly be labeled as “hate groups.”