The listing on the SPLC website doesn’t reflect the change, but it looks like Peter LaBarbera is being recognized as the hateful, disturbed bigot he is. What an accomplishment:
After years of vilifying gays as disease-prone and child molesters, the website of the Naperville-based anti-gay organization Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) recently became listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Chicago-based Gay Liberation Network (GLN) lobbied the Law Center to list AFTAH as a hate group so that its lies against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people could be exposed to public scrutiny and condemnation. The listing appeared in the most recent issue of the Law Center’ quarterly publication, Intelligence Report.
The criteria that the Law Center historically has used to determine whether or not an organization is a hate group is not merely that it opposes legal equality for gays or others, but whether or not they intentionally utilize discredited and slanderous propaganda to spread lies about a group of people. By repeatedly using the phony “research” of defrocked psychologist Paul Cameron, who is roundly condemned by every major professional psychological association, AFTAH’ website apparently met the Law Center’ definition of a hate group.
Americans for Truth meets most rational definitions of a hate group, I’d say.
It’s a step in the right direction.
(h/t Wendy Leigh)
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I hope this spurs pro-bullying, pro-hate crimes, anti-gay activist LaBarbera to seek Christ and renounce his sin of homophobia. But I won’t hold my breath.
You should have posted the “porno pete” song.
Vegasguy – thanks for the inspiration. I just added The Porno Pete Anthem.
Box Turtle Bulletin points out that the SPLC has not classified AFTAH as a hate group. It has only classified AFTAH’s web site as a hate site; the group remains off the hate-group list.
http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2010/03/22/21333
It’s about time.
let’s face it, there are more than a few people
that comment on this site, maybe even besen, hurst
and airhart that would love to see every group that
opposes homosexuality listed on SPLC’s list. We
all know the process: get the group listed
as a hate group, then shut them down through
legislation. Gee, then the only groups left will
be the ones that agree with TWO and thier ilk.
is that what you want?
There are many groups which meet the SPLC’s definition of a hate group.
Peter LaBarbera is a verifiable liar, using completely discredited and disproven research at every turn, in order to bolster his dying case.
Part of the definition of a hate group is that the purveyors of the hatred verifiably lie and unfairly malign groups with false information.
That’s Americans for Truth.
Understand now, or should I do it with shadow puppets?
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