The Southern Poverty Law Center purports to be an organization that, according to its website, fights hate, teaches tolerance and seeks justice.
The organization is so tolerant that in its Extremist Files it lists the Family Research Council because the group believes in traditional marriage, and it puts the Tea Party Nation on its Hate Map for “general hate.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center also has listed the American Family Association, an organization that has a history of promoting the sanctity of human life, decency and morality, as a hate group.
Many groups on the organization’s various lists truly promote hate and intolerance, while others don’t espouse the same social values as the organization or differ from it politically. As such, their listing alongside groups that espouse pure evil only makes a mockery of such lists.
But now the American Family Association has jumped into the mud with the Southern Poverty Law Center. It recently unveiled its own online bigotry map (www.afa.net/bigotrymap).