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On Thursday, the day after his organization was violently attacked, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins falsely accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of giving the suspected gunman “license” for the assault. He cautioned that the “Southern Poverty Law Center should be held accountable for their reckless use of terminology.”
On Friday, FRC’s second in command – Executive Vice President Jerry Boykin – appeared on the Glenn Beck Program and called the SPLC an “anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, Marxist organization.” Continuing, he said that the SPLC is an “evil group of people” who “are dangerous.”
How’s this for “reckless use of terminology”?
Said Boykin:
[CNN] actually tried to justify the ‘hate group’ label that was placed on the Family Research Council by this anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, Marxist organization called the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is just an evil group of people. They actually tried to justify this “hate group” label that they gave FRC.
These people are dangerous, they are evil, and my question is, Glenn, who are they to have any authority to declare anybody a ‘hate group.’
And remember, they also called Hitler right-wing, as well. I don’t mean SPLC, but people today on the left refer to Hitler as right-wing and compare conservatives to Hitler. Hitler was anything but right-wing. Remember he was National Socialist Party.
As Right Wing Watch reported last Thursday, the SPLC labeled FRC a “hate group” as a result of its “false and demonizing propaganda about gays and lesbians.” Now Boykin is getting in the act with “false and demonizing propaganda” about the SPLC itself.
Boykin, for those who aren’t familiar, became Tony Perkins’ right-hand man in July. He has a long track record of bigoted rhetoric and promoting wild-eyed conspiracy theories.
Among other things, he’s said that:
- President Obama has created a Hitler-style Brownshirt army to force Marxism on America
- Islam is not, and should not be, protected under the First Amendment
- There shouldn’t be any mosques in America
- Christians must go on the offensive against Islam
- George Soros and Council on Foreign Relations members are working to create a Marxist, global government
Boykin has previously argued that Hitler wasn’t a right-wing extremist, but in fact was a leftist. This time he trotted out that argument to show why organizations like the SPLC supposedly aren’t credible authorities on what constitutes a “hate group.” In the past, he has said that American Jews don’t understand Hitler and mistakenly back Democrats as a result.
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the frc needs to shut up
Should we restart to witch war?
Then they wouldnt mind my saying theyre completely crazy…
f*ck the frc.
How many of those words do you reckon they actually know the meaning of?
That’s the pot….
fire AL Lthe lies and cannons you got..thatway you can BLAME others for your own problems
Tell us how you really feel
Is that all? :P
Wait, anti-semitic? Seriously? Do they even know what that means?
… FRC’s “Sowing thee seeds” for-ALL-this on THEMSELVES!!! GIVE-me-A BREAK!!!
Sad that people like this are still living while greats like Andy Griffith and Phyllis Diller pass on….. damn….
One more Duche bag, He and glen Beck are nost likely Butt Buddies!
And the deliberate hate and oppression of the GLBT community isn’t anti-American or anti-Christian?!?!?!? Bigotry wrapped in the Bible is STILL BIGOTRY!!!!!
OMG what a sick person. He has to be mentally ill there is not other explanation.
PR disaster! 1 more down 1000s 2 go!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok! Too many acronyms already=:{
And names being called from a Hate Group mean Nothing.
The FTC should be forced to disband and it’s leaders prison’d for life
religious gibberish has no place in intelligent discourse.
Projecting much?
Hate groups don’t like being called hate groups despite their spreading hate messages every day.
dude, did they just throw darts at their wall-sized poster of “stereotypic bad guys poised to destroy America in the mind of crazies” or do they seriously believe that shit?
These people are just… NUTS!