There's a reason the Family Research Council has been officially designated as a hate group:
Perkins' accusation is outrageous. The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people -- not, as some claim, because it opposes same-sex marriage. The FRC and its allies on the religious right are saying, in effect, that offering legitimate and fact-based criticism in a democratic society is tantamount to suggesting that the objects of criticism should be the targets of criminal violence.Imagine had FRC said that African-Americans were prone to pedophilia and needed to be deported en masse from the US? Would FRC defend those statements as not hateful?
As the SPLC made clear at the time and in hundreds of subsequent statements and press interviews, we criticize the FRC for claiming, in Perkins' words, that pedophilia is "a homosexual problem" -- an utter falsehood, as every relevant scientific authority has stated. An FRC official has said he wanted to "export homosexuals from the United States." The same official advocated the criminalizing of homosexuality.
The day the Family Research Council actually starts worrying about language (read: lies) that could incite violence - or incite young gay and trans kids to kill themselves - then we'll talk.
