Hate Groups

Why White Supremacists Have Embraced the War on Contraception

Keli Goff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Contraception, Birth Control, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, President Obama, Politics News

For some, the battle over birth control happens to align with a much bigger, long-term culture war. Not a culture war over religious freedom, as some would have you believe, but a war over the browning of America.

Read Post

Will The Changing Face Of The Nation Spur Hate Group Participation?

Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Video, Hate, Hate Groups, US Census Bureau, Elections 2012, Latino Population, Minority Population, Southern Poverty Law Center, Race, Slidepollajax, Milita Groups, Barack Obama, Latino Voices News

While the U.S. Census Bureau’s longtime prediction that the size of the country’s racial and ethnic groups will together surpass that of the non-H...

Read Whole Story

Hate Groups Explode In Number

ABC News | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Obama Right Wing Groups, Militia, Obama Hate Groups, Hate Groups, Elections 2012, President Obama 2012, Militias, Barack Obama 2012, Barack Obama, Politics News

The number of radical hate groups and militias has exploded in recent years in reaction to the changing makeup of America, and new census figures show...

Read Whole Story

Virginia Republican: Obama's 'Evolution Comment Gives Evolutionists A Bad Name'

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Virginia, Video, Public Advocate of the United States, Hate Groups, Loudoun County, Eugene Delgaudio, Mitt Romney, Obama Gay Marriage, Southern Poverty Law Center, Splc, Barack Obama, DC News

WASHINGTON -- A Republican official in a suburban Northern Virginia county has moved beyond criticizing Florida pirate festivals for their "invasion" ...

Read Whole Story

U.S. Hate And Extremist Groups Hit Record Levels, New Report Says

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Hate Crimes, Hate Groups, Terrorism, Fbi, Militias, Sovereign Citizen, Dhs, Bv-Politics, Politics News

The number of domestic hate and extremist groups in the United States grew to record levels in 2011, led by a surge in anti-government radicalism.

Read Post

Number Of U.S. Hate Groups Is Rising

The New York Times | KIM SEVERSON | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, Mark Potok, Ku Klux Klan, Occupy Movement, Anti-Government Groups, Daryl Johnson, Politics News

Fed by antagonism toward President Obama, resentment toward changing racial demographics and the economic rift between rich and poor, the number of so...

Read Whole Story

Once Again, FAIR Reveals Its Heartlessness

Mark Potok | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Immigration, Hate Groups, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Politics News

As FAIR has made abundantly clear over the decades, humanitarian sympathy or even simple concern for their fellow human beings has no part at all in their heartless ideology.

Read Post

The Fight for Equal Rights Is So Far From Over

Amelia | Posted 02.06.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Equal Rights, Gay Rights, Hate Groups, Anti-Gay Bullying, Marriage Equality, LGBT Rights, LGBT Equality, Gay Voices News

More people are acting like it's just not all that important. Glee and Modern Family are on television, a handful of states allow equal marriage, gay people can have families. It's done and the struggle is over.

Read Post

New SPLC Intelligence Report: The Rhetoric of War

Mark Potok | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Alipac, League of the South, Southern Poverty Law Center, Constitution Party, Intelligence Report, Patriot Groups, Hate Groups, Politics News

Something is happening on the radical right. Even as the presidential campaign season heats up and, with it, the possibility of ridding themselves of their hated black president, extremists are ratcheting up the rhetoric of war.

Read Post

Anti-LGBT Group's Banquet Draws Protest, Vandalism

Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Peter Labarbera, Uganda Gay Rights, Lgbt Protest, Anti-Lgbt Groups, Calvin Lindstrom, Hate Groups, Scott Lively, Russian Gay Rights, Arlington Heights, Americans for Truth, Lgbt Chicago, Anti-Gay Groups, Chicago Lgbt Protest, Gay Liberation Network, Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality, Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, Chicago News

A banquet hosted by a "hate group" in honor of an Evangelical leader tied to a controversial Ugandan anti-gay bill drew protests from LGBT activists i...

Read Whole Story

White Supremacists in San Francisco: Conviction Uncovers Underground Network of Hate Groups

Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Hate Crimes, Justin Meskan, Nazi, Hate Groups, Conviction, Assault, Robert Allen, Anthony Weston, White Supremacist Groups San Franciscso, Tenderloin, San Francisco, San Francisco News

The conviction of two men in the brutal assault of two Mexican nationals has shed light on an underground network of white supremacist groups operatin...

Read Whole Story

Values Voter Summit -- Or Anti-LGBT Hate Fest?

Mark Potok | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Family Research Council, Bryan Fischer, LGBT Rights, Values Voter Summit, American Family Association, Hate Speech, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, Politics News

Starting today, a number of prominent public figures will be attending and speaking at the Values Voter Summit, an annual gathering of socially conservative activists in Washington. But just what kind of values are they promoting?

Read Post

Yes, Anti-LGBT Religious Groups Are Hate Groups

Rev. Dr. Katrina D. Foster | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Lesbian, Hate Groups, Jim Daly Focus on the Family, Focus on the Family Hate Group, Jim Daly, Focus on the Family, Religion Homosexuality, Gay Voices News

As a devout, orthodox Christian and Jesus freak, I do not think using the word "hate" to describe what Mr. Daly and the people at Focus on the Family and other organizations are trying to do is too strong.

Read Post

The Day Hate Became Everyone's Problem

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 08.30.2011

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Anti-Defamation League, Twin Towers, Bigotry, Hate Groups, 9/11 Anniversary, World News

If the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor was, in the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "date that shall live in infamy," 9/11 was the "day that hate became everyone's problem."

Read Post

Redefining Hate: Pro-Gay Activists Should Reconsider Rhetoric

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, Hate Groups, Evangelical Christians, LGBT Rights, Christianity, Religion and Sexuality, Hate Speech, Focus on the Family, Blake Mycoskie, Gay Issues, Gay Marriage, change.org, Same-Sex Marriage, Religion News

We live in a world that glorifies tolerance. So it's ironic that those who often champion tolerance are quick to abandon it when they encounter people who disagree with their perspectives.

Read Post

Suburban Anti-Gay Group Wants To Keep Gay Blood Donor Ban

Posted 10.10.2011

Though the Naperville, Ill.-based anti-gay group Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) recently lost their 501(c)3, tax-exempt organizationa...

Read Whole Story

Is The KKK Trying To 'Re-Brand' Itself?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Arlington National Cemetery, White Supremacists, The South, Hate Groups, Montana Human Rights, Memorial Day, Kkk, Westboro Baptist Church, John Abarr, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montana Republican Party, Bowen Greenwood, Politics News

At the Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, a handful of picketers from controversial hate group the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) were siphon...

Read Whole Story

The Arizonification of America

Mark Potok | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabrielle Giffords, Patriot Movement, Nativist Extremists, Southern Poverty Law Center, Neo-Nazis, Hate Groups, Politics News

When even leading conservatives worry out loud about the right-wing vitriol and demonizing propaganda, you've got to be concerned about where our country is headed.

Read Post

Civil Rights Center: U.S. Hate Groups Top 1000 in 2010

Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hate Crimes, Hate Groups, Politics News

Hate groups in the U.S. numbered over 1,000 for the first time in a just-released annual tally of extremism. The 1,002 "hate groups" represent the tenth consecutive annual increase.

Read Post

Ronald Reagan's Legacy Becomes New 'Tool' in Attacking the Gay Community

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homophobia, CPAC 2010, Bryan Fischer, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, Ronald Reagan, American Family Association, Politics News

I haven't weighed on the conservative mass inconization of former President Ronald Reagan because, to a degree, it's so amusing.

Read Post

Pawlenty Mingles With Anti-Gay Hate Group, Wants to Reinstate DADT

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homophobia, Dadt, Tim Pawlenty, Gay Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, American Family Association, Politics News

Someone should inform Pawlenty that the lgbt community aren't exactly as compliant as we were back in 2004. And we won't wait until someone uses us as scapegoats before we fight back.

Read Post

White Supremacist Site MartinLutherKing.org Marks 12th Anniversary

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Antidefamation League, Yahoo, White Supremacists, First Amendment, Bing, Hate Groups, Martin Luther King, Computers, Kkk, Stormfront, Websites, Martin Luther King Day, Students, Google, Cloaking, Media News

When a group of students was recently assigned to write reports on Martin Luther King, Jr., several of them learned that King had in fact been a drunken philandering con man. Where in the www did these kids search? Google, for starters.

Read Post

Irony Alert -- Family Research Council Accuses SPLC of 'Cherry-Picking' Science

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Research Council, Gay Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, Concerned Women for America, Tony Perkins, Politics News

Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council is still smarting over the Southern Poverty Law Center designating his organization as an anti-gay hate group.

Read Post

The Dangers of Anti-Gay Propaganda: A Personal Story

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Religious Right, Family Research Council, Gay Rights, Southern Poverty Law Center, Hate Groups, African Americans, .Sex, Politics News

These statements, talking points, and "studies" about the lgbt community put out by groups like the Family Research Council are lies and nothing more.

Read Post

Newly Named Anti-Gay Hate Groups Plead Victimhood But Do Not Address Charges

Alvin McEwen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mccain Religious Right, Southern Poverty Law Center, World Net Daily, Gay Rights, Hate Groups, Concerned Women for America, American Family Association, Politics News

Apparently some organizations who are on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list and profiles of anti-gay hate groups aren't happy about it.

Read Post