“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” That’s the the last one of Saul Alinsky’s infamous thirteen Rules for Radicals. It’s become one of the SPLC’s (Southern Poverty Law Center) favorite strategies. And the targets they’re attempting to freeze, personalize and polarize are conservative – and Christian.
 
Once upon a time the SPLC was at least well-intentioned. It was formed in 1917 as a non-profit, legal advocacy organization focusing on civil rights, and was instrumental in marginalizing the KKK. Unfortunately, in recent years they’ve turned into social justice warriors on a power trip. Although they still fight obvious villains like Black Supremacists and groups that promote Islamic terrorism, lately they’ve taken aim at Christian conservative organizations. Which is why Dr. Michael Brown believes that the Southern Poverty Law Center is the most dangerous hate group in America.
 
According to Brown it’s their duplicitous nature that makes the SPLC such a threat. While some of the groups they oppose are grossly anti-social and truly deserve to be shunned, others are actually praiseworthy ~

To give you an idea of just how dangerous the SPLC is, consider this recent headline from the San Diego Union-Tribune: “Eight hate groups are in San Diego’s backyard, civil rights organization says.”
 
Really? Eight hate-groups in San Diego’s backyard? How does that make you feel if you live nearby, and what protective action should you take? And who, exactly, are these groups?
 
Some are Black Supremacist groups; one denies the Holocaust; one supports Islamic terrorism and wants to establish Sharia Law; and two are conservative Christian organizations.
 
That’s right, two conservative Christian organizations, including the Ruth Institute, a Catholic, pro-family organization, led by Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, are listed side by side with radical Muslims, Black Supremacists, and Holocaust deniers.
 
This is the insidiousness of the SPLC, which exposes genuine hate groups alongside fine Christian organizations whose great sin, according to the SPLC, is being “anti-LGBT.”

 
Here’s a small sampling of the Christian organizations that they’re attacking:

• The Alliance Defending Freedom, one of the most respected Christian legal firms in the world, which has successfully argued cases before the Supreme Court and was involved in arguing the landmark Obergefell vs. Hodges
• The American College of Pediatricians, “a nonsectarian medical organization whose crime is that they publish scientific facts damaging to the ideology of identity politics.” (This organization consists of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, and others.)
• The America Family Association, which for several decades has stood for family values in our nation.
• Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, which simply disseminates factual information about LGBT issues.
• Liberty Counsel, another highly respected Christian legal firm which has represented Christians in major cases across the land. (The Pacific Justice Institute, yet another fine Christian legal firm, makes it onto this same list. How dare these Christian groups defend their constitutional rights!)

 
Beyond simply being a petulant action by another bunch of irrational leftists – and no doubt having a negative impact on donations to these groups- this intolerant character assassination is effectively putting a target on the backs of these conservative organizations. Some of the vicious mislabeling has actually led to violence (against Family Research Council in 2012). James T. Hodgkinson, the unhinged gunman who used Republicans for target practice last August, was a Bernie supporter who “liked” the SPLC on Facebook.

 
In another enlightening Prager U video, Karl Zinsmeister explains just how malicious and un-American the SPLC has become ~
 

 
There was a time when the country was grateful for SPLC’s efforts in exposing our domestic enemies. Those days are gone. And thankfully, as Dr. Brown points out…

… the FBI, among other law-enforcement agencies, no longer relies on the SPLC’s data, but for years the SPLC was a major source of information for our government, reminding us once more of just how dangerous they are.

 
And now the rest of America needs to understand what a hateful, destructive influence the SPLC represents – before this real “hate group” can do any more damage.
 
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Related:

Nonprofit Tracker Smears Dozens of Conservative Organizations as ‘Hate Groups’ ~ Don’t rely on GuideStar any longer for objective assessment of non-profit groups ~

The nation’s leading source of information on U.S. charities faces mounting criticism for using a controversial “hate group” designation in listings for some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits.
 
GuideStar, which calls itself a “neutral” aggregator of tax data on charities, recently incorporated “hate group” labels produced by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.
 
The decision by the tracker of nonprofits prompted 41 conservative leaders to protest the move in a letter provided exclusively to The Daily Signal. The letter, dated June 21, asks the website to drop the “hate group” labels put on 46 organizations.

Tell #FakeNewsCNN to stop putting AFA in danger ~

AFA (America Family Association) is urging CNN to stop using the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a source when reporting real news. The SPLC is a radical organization and its hateful rhetoric was implicated in a 2012 shooting at the Family Research Council’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Another Scalp? Donation Processing Company Drops ‘Hate Group’ Christian Nonprofit Attacked by the Southern Poverty Law Center ~

Last week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) seemed to claim another scalp. On Thursday, the credit card processing company Vanco Payment Solutions dropped the Christian nonprofit Ruth Institute (RI) over claims that RI “promotes hate, violence, harassment and/or abuse.” The group has been listed on the SPLC’s “hate map” since 2013.
 
“The Ruth Institute’s primary focus is on family breakdown, and its impact on children. If this makes us a ‘hate group,’ so be it,” the RI’s founder and president, Jennifer Roback Morse, declared in a statement.