Southern Poverty Law Center Finally Names Focus on the Family a Hate Group

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SLPC) has long listed so many of our good and hard-working friends – Alliance Defending Freedom, American Family Association, American College of Pediatrics, many family policy councils, Moms for Liberty, D. James Kennedy Ministries, Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel, World Congress of Families, Society for Evidence-Based Medicine and the Ruth Institute —  as “hate groups.” But for some reason Focus on the Family was never listed among this august group.

But now, all that has changed. Focus on the Family has been added to the official SPLC “hate group” list.

On May 25, SPLC publicly listed us in their HATEWATCH “Extremist File” claiming, “Focus on the Family is an anti-LGBTQ+ extremist group that has long relied on its biblical worldview strategy to push back against LGBTQ+ progress and reproductive rights.” They specifically called out Daily Citizen as Focus on the Family’s most egregious offender and suggested we promote “anti-trans pseudoscience.”

Of course, this is all so preposterous and silly.

Being listed on SPLC’s “hate list” only means Focus on the Family, and all these other allied organizations, are simply contending for the wholly uncontroversial natural order of things in God’s design for human sexuality, the mother/father family founded on marriage, and the objective reality of male and female. We and each of these other groups have all done so publicly and consistently. We will continue to do so, undaunted.

Curiously, the Washington Examiner has a piece today titled, “The Southern Poverty Law Center is a Hate Organization.” They correctly note, “For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been the darling of liberals and Democrats as an agency that supposedly identified and fought against racism and white supremacy.”

Over the past few decades, SPLC started going after stalwart pro-family groups because of their positions in defense of things that were never controversial or questionable just moments ago. Now holding that male and female are objective realities, that sex creates babies and should be reserved for monogamous, natural marriage and all children have a right to their own mother and father gets you labeled a “hate group.” SPLC throws the H-word around so loosely it has lost all meaning. That is a true shame.

It’s an adage that you can tell a lot about someone from the company they keep. The same goes for organizations. Our inclusion on this childish list with so many of our long-term friends would hardly be worth noting if not for the danger this list has previously incited – including an attempted murder at the Family Research Council.

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