SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER DOESN'T PASS THEIR OWN LITMUS TEST

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER TACTIC: INTIMIDATE AND TERRORIZE

Responding to those who would silence the faith

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Journal/editorial.aspx?id=1522874

One News Now.com – Ed Vitagliano

Read the entire link. Once you can identify tactics of propaganda, their credibility disappears.

The liberal motivation in such cases is clear. Franck said it goes like this: “The argument over same sex marriage must be brought to an end, and the debate considered settled. Defenders of traditional marriage must be likened to racists, as purveyors of irrational fear and loathing.”

The name-calling serves a useful purpose. The opponent is taken out of the cultural debate like a talented football player is removed from a game by a “dirty hit.” Why deal with the talents of the opposing player when he can be forced to the sideline?

“It’s easier to call someone a racist/sexist/bigot or a liar than it is to prove your own arguments are intellectually sound time after time; after all, who would take what a bigot or a liar has to say seriously?” said Breitbart senior fellow and blogger Alexander Marlow.

Christianity vicious lies?
Leading the charge to smear conservatives – and especially conservative Christians – is the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Based in Montgomery, Alabama, the SPLC was founded as a civil rights law firm in the early 1970s. It has morphed into an organization that, according to its own Web site, “is internationally known for tracking and exposing the activities of hate groups.”

Just what did AFA and FRC do to warrant such infamy? Potok said it was because the two groups “regularly spew vicious lies about the LGBT community.” Thus, they are hate groups.

What vicious lies are those? The views specifically cited by the SPLC included the belief that children fare better if they have both their biological mother and father in the home, rather than same-sex parents; that environmental factors – such as childhood sexual abuse or deficiencies in relationships with parents – can play a significant role in whether or not someone becomes homosexual; and that hate crime laws may eventually lead to the prosecution of pastors who dare to speak out publicly against homosexuality.

Obviously, the SPLC disagrees with AFA on these matters. Does that automatically make AFA wrong, however? And even if AFA were wrong, does that make AFA a hate group? Is it hateful to be wrong?

Intimidate and terrorize
Franck said a reasonable debate is not what the SPLC is after. Instead, groups like the SPLC “assert that no rational arguments along these lines even exist and so no refutation is necessary, and insinuate that those who merely want to defend marriage are ‘anti-gay thugs’ or ‘theocrats’ or ‘Taliban,’ as some critics have said.”

It is a strategy that Laird Wilcox calls “ritual defamation.”

However, any reasonable person will admit that truth is not hatred simply because someone is offended by it. In a free society, it is expected that there will be differences of opinion – even concerning facts and what those facts mean. Out of those heartfelt differences come heated debates and subsequent public policy battles.

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