List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT hate groups

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The following is a list of U.S.-based organizations classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as anti-LGBT hate groups. The SPLC defines hate groups as those that "... have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics." The SPLC states that hate group activities may include speeches, marches, rallies, meetings, publishing, leafleting—and criminal acts such as violence.[1]

The SPLC classifies organizations that propagate "known falsehoods – claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities – and repeated, groundless name-calling" as anti-LGBT hate groups. The SPLC states that "viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups."[2] President of the SPLC Richard Cohen clarified "[B]y 'known falsehoods,' we mean such things as asserting that gays and lesbians are more disposed to molesting children than heterosexuals – which the overwhelming weight of credible scientific research has determined is patently untrue. Nowhere in our report do we equate taking a position against same-sex marriage with hate speech."[3]

Types of hate groups

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Main article: List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups

The SPLC reported that 926 hate groups were active in the United States in 2008, up from 888 in 2007. These included:

Tracking of hate groups: commendation and criticism

The Southern Poverty Law Center is listed under the Resources section of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's web page on hate crimes[6] and has provided the FBI with information on hate groups.[7] Since 1981 the SPLC has published a quarterly Intelligence Report that monitors what it views as radical right hate groups and extremists in the United States, providing information on the organizational efforts and tactics of these groups.[8][9] It has been cited by scholars as a reliable source on right-wing extremism and hate groups.[10][11][12][13] The SPLC also publishes a newsletter, the HateWatch Weekly, and maintains a blog, HateWatch, which monitor the extreme right.[14] Rory McVeigh, Chair of the University of Notre Dame Sociology Department, has described the SPLC as "an excellent source of information for social scientists who study hate groups."[10]

The SPLC's expertise on hate groups has been questioned by journalist Ken Silverstein who argues that the organization sometimes exaggerates the threats posed by certain groups.[15] In the wake of an August 2012 shooting at the headquarters of the Family Research Council, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank criticized the SPLC's listing of the Family Research Council as an anti-gay hate group while others, including Americablog's former editor John Aravosis, defended the categorization.[16][17]

History of the list

In November 2010 13 groups were added: American Family Association, Family Research Council, Illinois Family Institute, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment, Family Research Institute, Abiding Truth Ministries, American Vision, Chalcedon Foundation, Dove World Outreach Center, Faithful Word Baptist Church, Traditional Values Coalition, and MassResistance.[18] With these new groups SPLC stated that gays remain the minority most targeted by hate crimes." [19] In March of 2012 the SPLC added 11 groups to the listing: United Families International, Save California, Sons of Thundr (Faith Baptist Church), You Can Run, But You Cannot Hide, Parents Action League, Jewish Political Action Committee, Mission: America, Windsor Hills Baptist Church, True Light Pentecost Church, Tom Brown Ministries and Public Advocate of the United States.[20]

In early 2014 the SPLC added 7 groups: World Congress of Families/Howard Center For Family, Religion and Society, based in Rockford, Illinois, the Catholic Family and Human Rights institute (C-FAM), The Ruth Institute, The Pray in Jesus Name Project, Pacific Justice Institute, Mission America and The Liberty Counsel.[21]

List of anti-LGBT groups

Anti-LGBT, against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) people, or anti-gay can refer to activities in certain categories (or combination of categories): attitudes against or discrimination against LGBTQ people, violence against LGBT people, LGBTQ rights opposition and religious opposition to LGBTQ people. In its Winter 2010 Intelligence Report the SPLC noted that for thirty years going back to Anita Bryant's Christian fundamentalists Save Our Children campaign, the first organized opposition to the gay rights movement defeating an ordinance banning discrimination in areas of housing, employment, and public accommodation based on sexual orientation, "hard-line elements of the religious right have been searching for ways to demonize gay people—or, at a minimum, to find arguments that will prevent their normalization in society."[22] These groups utilize anti-gay myths to "form the basis of its claim that homosexuality is a social evil that must be suppressed—an opinion rejected by virtually all relevant medical and scientific authorities."[22] The SPLC notes these anti-gay myths "almost certainly contribute to hate crime violence directed at the LGBT community, which is more targeted for such attacks than any other minority group in America."[22]

Abiding Truth Ministries

Abiding Truth Ministries is a conservative Christian organization located in Temecula, California.[23] Their president, Scott Lively, is an American author, attorney and activist, noted for his opposition to LGBT rights and his involvement in the ex-gay movement. Lively has called for the criminalization of "the public advocacy of homosexuality" as far back as 2007.[24][25] He is also directly linked to pending anti-gay legislation in Uganda, which would, if passed, make homosexual conduct punishable by a lengthy prison sentence or death.[26]

Along with Kevin E. Abrams, he co-authored the book The Pink Swastika, which states in the preface that "homosexuals [are] the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities."[27] In fact, under Nazi Germany, gays and lesbians were sent to concentration camps and several historians have questioned the book's claims and selective use of research.[28][29][30][31][32] Lively is the former state director for the California branch of the American Family Association and formed Watchmen on the Walls based in Riga, Latvia.[33] According to a January 2011 profile, Lively "has not changed his view that gays are 'agents of America's moral decline' but has refocused his approach to fit his flock in Springfield, Massachusetts" and "is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden."[34]

The Southern Poverty Law Center regards Abiding Truth Ministries as a hate group.[35] Lively has responded with his blog.[36]

American Family Association

The American Family Association (AFA) is a United States non-profit organization that promotes conservative fundamentalist Christian values.[37][38][39][40][41][42] They oppose same-sex marriage, pornography, and abortion;[43][44] and back public policy goals such as deregulation of the oil industry and lobbying against the Employee Free Choice Act.[45] It was founded in 1977 by Donald Wildmon as the National Federation for Decency and is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.

The AFA defined itself as "a Christian organization promoting the Biblical ethic of decency in American society with primary emphasis on television and other media," later switching their stated emphasis to "moral issues that impact the family."[46][47][48] It engages in activism efforts, including boycotts, buycotts, action alert emails, publications on the AFA's web sites or in the AFA Journal, broadcasts on American Family Radio, and lobbying.[49] The organization has an annual budget of US$14 million and owns 180 American Family Radio stations in 28 states.[50]

As of November 2010 AFA has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for the "propagation of known falsehoods" and the use of "demonizing propaganda" against LGBT people.[51][52]

American Vision

American Vision is a United States nonprofit organization founded in 1978 by Steve Schiffman. It operates as a Christian ministry, and calls for "equipping and empowering Christians to restore America’s biblical foundation." Gary DeMar has been the organization's president since 1984. The group has published over 175 books, DVDs, CDs, and MP3s. The group also publishes a daily newsletter and podcast and is active in the creation science movement. The site promotes Christian Reconstructionism and Postmillennialism, and opposes dispensationalism.

The Southern Poverty Law Center labels American Vision an anti-gay hate group due to its support of the "death penalty for practicing homosexuals."[53][54][55]

Americans for Truth About Homosexuality

Americans for Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH) is an organization founded by Peter LaBarbera, which describes itself as "dedicated to exposing the homosexual activist agenda".[56] In 2010, AFTAH was designated an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which said "AFTAH is notable for its posting of the utterly discredited work of Paul Cameron (of the Family Research Institute), who has claimed that gays and lesbians live vastly shorter lives than heterosexuals".[55][57]

Bethesda Christian Institute

Bethesda Christian Institute, based in San Antonio, Texas, and led by John Vernon Foster, was listed as a hate group by the SPLC in 2011.[58][59] It was one of the first 17 groups in the new category.[60] Foster (born in 1934) began studying the Bible while he served in the United States Navy on Guam during the Korean War. He became an evangelist for several years after leaving the military. He founded the Bethesda Temple of San Antonio when he was 26. The church was renamed the Bethesda Christian Institute. In 2007, he published The Insanity of Christianity, which contains a chapter called "The Gay Community." In it, he argues that the "gay lifestyle" is not simply an alternative lifestyle, but the sin of sodomy according to the Bible. He says gay people should not be Christian church leaders for the same reason adulterers should not. Foster asks if we accept the gay lifestyle "why wouldn't a person have a right to sexually seduce their own children as a lifestyle? Is rape just another lifestyle? Is incest just another lifestyle? Is stealing just another lifestyle? Is murder just another lifestyle?"[61]

Campaign for Houston

The Campaign for Houston is an American conservative organization that was created on August 24, 2015, in order to fight against Proposition 1. Campaign for Houston is opposed to adding sexual orientation and gender identity as part of the Houston Code of Ordinances anti-discrimination laws.[62][63][64][65]

Chalcedon Foundation

The Chalcedon Foundation is an American Christian Reconstructionist organization founded by Rousas John Rushdoony. Named for the Council of Chalcedon,[66] it has also included theologians such as Gary North, who later founded his own organization, the Institute for Christian Economics. The Chalcedon Foundation was officially founded by Rushdoony in the summer of 1965. In 1971, North was hired part-time, and two years later North was hired full-time while Greg Bahnsen was also hired. Rushdoony founded Ross House Books in 1976, the same year in which North and Bahnsen left the Foundation to pursue careers elsewhere. In 1977, the Foundation's first office building was built. A decade later, the organization's Newsletter became a magazine, the Chalcedon Report. On February 8, 2001, Rushdoony died. He was succeeded by his son Mark Rushdoony, who continues to run the organization. In 2004, Ross House Books merged with Chalcedon, and in 2005, the Chalcedon Report was renamed Faith for All of Life.

The Chalcedon Foundation has been listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[35] The SPLC notes that The Institutes of Biblical Law, written by Rushdoony in 1973, called for strict biblical law that would "mean the death penalty for 'practicing homosexuals,' among many other 'abominators.'"[67]

Dove World Outreach Center

Dove World Outreach Center is a 50 member non-denominational charismatic Christian church in Gainesville, Florida led by pastor Terry Jones and his wife, Sylvia. The church first gained notice during the late 2000s for its public displays and criticism of Islam and gays, and was designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[68] It became widely known for its pastor's controversial plan to burn Qur'ans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. On September 11, 2010, Jones announced his church would never be burning Qur'ans and that he had reached his goal of exposing elements of Islam as dangerous and radical.[69] On March 20, 2011, however, Jones carried through on his threat, and burned the Qur'an. On April 1, 2011 protestors in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, protesting this burning, attacked a United Nations Assistance Mission, killing at least 12 people, including at least 7 U.N. workers.[70]

The head of the church Pastor Jones described Islam as "a false religion" that will lead people to hell,[71] and urged to Muslims that the Bible is the only way to God. The congregation has also held rallies against Gainesville mayor Craig Lowe and his staff denouncing their liberal policies.

A Dove World congregation also held a protest against the building of Park51.[72] After Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, the church hanged an Obama effigy with a rainbow flag on its lawn.[73] In January 2013 effigies of President Obama and President Clinton were burned to protest their abortion and pro-LGBT policies.[74] The Gainesville Sun reported that Terry Jones was fined by the City for the unauthorized fire.[75]

SPLC Hatewatch staff attended a Colorado Springs meeting in March 2013 at which Terry Jones was a featured speaker. The content of the speeches was, according to SPLC, "paranoid fantasy" from 'conservatives' of a "different breed."[76]

Faithful Word Baptist Church

Faithful Word Baptist Church is a United States fundamentalist Baptist church in Tempe, Arizona.[77] The church is King James Bible only[77] with regard to the Bible, and the church's members meet in an office space located in a strip mall.[78] Steven L. Anderson established the church in December 2005 and remains its pastor.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lists Faithful Word Baptist Church as an anti-gay hate group.[79][80][81][82] In August 2009, the church received national attention when Anderson shared that he was praying for the death of President Barack Obama in his sermons.

The SPLC has listed the church as an anti-gay hate group,[80][81][82] noting that Pastor Anderson described gays as "sodomites" who "recruit through rape," and "recruit through molestation".[79] In explaining the hate group designation, the SPLC said Anderson suggests homosexuals should be killed, and in a sermon he stated, "The biggest hypocrite in the world is the person who believes in the death penalty for murderers but not for homosexuals."[79][83] A few days after the listing, Pastor Anderson stated "I do hate homosexuals and if hating homosexuals makes our church a hate group then that's what we are."[80]

Family Research Council

The Family Research Council (FRC) is an American conservative Christian group and lobbying organization formed in the United States in 1981 by James Dobson. It was incorporated in 1983.[84] In the late 1980s, the FRC officially became a division of Dobson's main organization, Focus on the Family, but after an administrative separation, the FRC became an independent entity in 1992. Tony Perkins is the current president.

The FRC promotes what it considers to be traditional family values, by advocating and lobbying for socially conservative policies. It opposes and lobbies against LGBT rights, abortion, divorce, embryonic stem-cell research, and pornography. The FRC is affiliated with a 501(c)(4) lobbying PAC known as FRC Action.[85] In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center classified the FRC as an anti-gay hate group, a designation which has caused controversy.

In February 2010 the Family Research Council's Senior Researcher for Policy Studies, Peter Sprigg, stated on NBC's Hardball that gay behavior should be outlawed and that "criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior" should be enforced.[86] In May that same year, Sprigg publicly suggested that repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would encourage molestation of heterosexual service members.[87] In November FRC President Tony Perkins was asked about Sprigg's comments regarding the criminalization of same-sex behavior: he responded that criminalizing homosexuality is not a goal of the Family Research Council.[88][89] Perkins repeated the FRC’s association of gay men with pedophilia, saying that "If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children."[88][89] The opinions expressed by Perkins are contradicted by mainstream social science research on same-sex parenting,[90] and on the likelihood of child molestation by homosexuals and bisexuals, which has been found to be no higher than child molestation by heterosexuals.[90][91] Some scientists whose work is cited by the American College of Pediatricians – a small conservative organization which was formed when the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed adoption by same-sex couples – have said that it has distorted and misrepresented their work.[92]

The opinions and statements made by Sprigg and Perkins in 2010 resulted in the Southern Poverty Law Center designating the FRC as a hate group in the Winter 2010 issue of its magazine, Intelligence Report. (See Listing as a hate group by SPLC below.)

Family Research Institute

The Family Research Institute (FRI), originally known as the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality (ISIS), is an American non-profit organization based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which states that it has "...one overriding mission: to generate empirical research on issues that threaten the traditional family, particularly homosexuality, AIDS, sexual social policy, and drug abuse".[93] The FRI is part of a movement of small, often faith-based organizations (sometimes called the Christian right) which seek to influence the political debate in the United States. They seek "...to restore a world where marriage is upheld and honored, where children are nurtured and protected, and where homosexuality is not taught and accepted, but instead is discouraged and rejected at every level."[93] The Boston Globe reported that the FRI's 2005 budget was less than $200,000.[94]

The FRI is run by Paul Cameron, who earned a doctorate in psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1966. Cameron founded the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality in 1982, and this institute later became the FRI.[94]

The Family Research Institute is designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for propagating known falsehoods about LGBT people.[95][96] Paul Cameron, a researcher whose studies about the lives of homosexuals have been "utterly discredited".[68][97][98][99] Cameron has been removed from professional and scholarly organizations and his studies have been met with formal resolutions passed against him.[98] LaBarbera has endorsed Cameron's research and has said that ways should be found "to bring back shame" for homosexual behavior.[98]

Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment

Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment (HOME or H.O.M.E.) is an anti-homosexuality organization founded by Wayne Lela and based in Downers Grove, Illinois, USA. The organization's aim is "to use science, logic, and natural law to expose all the flaws in the arguments homosexuals (and bisexuals) use to try to justify homosexual activity."[100] On November 22, 2010[101] the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated the organization an anti-gay hate group[102][103] "based on their propagation of known falsehoods".[68][104] According to the SPLC, Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment "is entirely focused on the alleged evils of homosexuality [and] attacks gay people on a wide variety of levels."[55]

Illinois Family Institute

The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is a 501(c)(3) Christian organization based in Carol Stream, Illinois. Founded in 1992, its mission is focused on "upholding and re-affirming marriage, family, life and liberty in Illinois," and is affiliated with the American Family Association.[105] The organization also has a sister organization, Illinois Family Action, founded in 2010 it is active as a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization in the state of Illinois.[106] The organization's executive director is David E. Smith, who succeeded Peter LaBarbera in 2006.[107][108]

The Illinois Family Institute was designated an anti-gay hate group in 2009 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, on the grounds that it is "heavily focused on attacking gay people and homosexuality in general."[98]

In its Intelligence Report, the SPLC states the designation was based on the association with Paul Cameron, a researcher whose studies about the lives of homosexuals have been "utterly discredited", and on the association with LaBarbera who repeats the disproved link between gay men and pedophilia.[68][98][99] Cameron has been removed from professional and scholarly organizations and his studies have been met with formal resolutions passed against him.[98] LaBarbera has endorsed Cameron's research and has said that ways should be found "to bring back shame" for homosexual behavior.[98] As well, Higgins' words were linked to the hate group designation, including her comparison of homosexuality to Nazism.[98]

Jewish Political Action Committee

The Jewish Political Action Committee is an American Hasidic Jewish political group based in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.[109] The SPLC added the Jewish Political Action Committee to its list of anti-gay hate groups in March 2012.[110] Heshy Friedman said one of the group's goals is "to wake up the people of New York to the dangers of allowing homosexuality and gay marriage."[111] In 2011, a group member stated that "there has been a surge of gay attacks against youngsters in New York" since a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in New York was introduced. The group also launched an awareness campaign warning about gay men specifically. Their posted street signs said "Judaism prohibits homosexuality... That is why G-d sent AIDS to punish male gays" and "Judaism considers male homosexuality a worse sin than murder."[112]

MassResistance

MassResistance is a Massachusetts anti-gay group[113][114][115][116] that promotes socially conservative positions primarily on issues surrounding homosexuality, the transgender community and same-sex marriage. It was formed in 1995 as a consolidation of the Parents' Rights Coalition, turned into the Article 8 Alliance in 2003, and adopted the current name in 2006.[117][118] The group has criticized former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for not opposing same-sex marriage,[119] and says it fights against students in public schools being taught about homosexuality.[120]

Since March 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed MassResistance as an anti-gay "Active U.S. Hate Group" based on "their propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities."[113][114][121][122][123]

Mission: America

Mission: America is an organization started in 1995 by Linda Harvey which the group's mission states is "cover[ing] the latest cultural and social trends in our country and what they might mean for Christians."[124] A particular focus of the organization's articles is on the issue of homosexuality.[125] The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated Mission: America as a hate group in March 2012 based on its particular anti-LGBT rights stances.[68][110]

Parents Action League

Parents Action League is an organization started in 2010 to protest proposed changes in the Anoka-Hennepin (Minnesota) School District 11 policy which had limited discussions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues in district classrooms.[126][127] The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the organization as an anti-gay hate group in March 2012 because it spread damaging propaganda about LGBT people.[2][55][110]

Public Advocate of the United States

Public Advocate of the United States is an organization founded in 1981 by Eugene Delgaudio. It advocates conservative policies in American politics.[128]

As of 2012 the Public Advocate of the United States has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its anti-gay activism.[110][129]

SaveCalifornia.com

SaveCalifornia.com is a United States nonprofit organization founded by Randy Thomasson in 1999, with a stated goal of "defending and representing the values of parents, grandparents and concerned citizens who want what's best for this generation and future generations."[130] Thomasson has been involved in influencing social policies in government since 1994, through various media outlets.[131] SaveCalifornia.com is a part of Campaign for Children and Families.

SaveCalifornia.com opposed California's FAIR Education Act. In 2011, Thomasson described the bill as "Sexual brainwashing" and called for "parents to remove their children from the government school system, and get them into the safe havens of church schooling and home schooling."[132] In March 2012, the SPLC added SaveCalifornia.com to its list of anti-gay hate groups.[133][134]

Sons of Thundr (Faith Baptist Church)

Sons of Thundr (Faith Baptist Church) is an American Baptist Church in Greenville, Georgia, founded in 1984 by Pastor Billy Ball.[135]

The church is opposed to abortion,[136] homosexuality,[137] and alcohol.[138] Its web site features graphic photos of aborted fetuses and accident victims, along with declarations of their beliefs, such as "All Homos are: Sick, brain damaged, perverts!"[136][137][138][139]

The SPLC designated Sons of Thundr as an anti-gay hate group[134][139] in March 2012.[110]

Tom Brown Ministries

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Tom Brown Ministries, based in El Paso, Texas, was founded by Tom Brown and includes the Word of Life Church.[58] Brown helped create El Pasoans for Traditional Family Values to fight a policy allowing city health benefits for gay and unmarried city employees. When the policy was successfully voted down in a referendum, El Paso mayor John F. Cook filed a lawsuit Cook v. Tom Brown Ministries to reinstate the benefits. The SPLC added Tom Brown Ministries to its list of anti-gay hate groups in March 2012.[110]

Traditional Values Coalition

The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) is an American conservative Christian organization that represents, by its estimate, over 43,000 Christian churches throughout the United States of America. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., its belief is in Bible-based traditional values as "[a] moral code and behavior based upon the Old and New Testaments." The group considers traditional values to include a belief "that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that the Lord has given us a rule book to live by: The Bible" and a commitment to "living, as far as it is possible, by the moral precepts taught by Jesus Christ and by the whole counsel of God as revealed in the Bible." The organization was founded by the Reverend Louis P. Sheldon who is the current chairman. His daughter Andrea Sheldon Lafferty is the executive director.[140]

The Traditional Values Coalition has been labelled an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[35] Tony Perkins asked SPLC to retract the hate group designation but the SPLC refused to back down stating the groups were added to the list for spreading "known falsehoods—claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — and repeated, groundless name-calling."[141]

True Light Pentecost Church

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The SPLC added True Light Pentecost Church to its list of anti-gay hate groups in March 2012.[110] The North Carolina based church has protested Barack Obama's stance on gay rights, as well as on abortion.[142] The group has also rallied for the resignation of Bishop Eddie Long in response to allegations of sexual impropriety.[143]

United Families International

United Families International (UFI) is a United States nonprofit organization founded in 1978 by Susan Roylance[144][145] UFI works on an international scale to influence public policy toward "maintaining and strengthening the family". The organization is not affiliated with any religious organizations, governments or political parties. UFI has NGO status with ECOSOC and works to educate United Nations (UN) ambassadors and delegates on family related issues.[146] UFI also operates a website, DefendMarriage.org.[clarification needed][147]

UFI under Roylance was actively involved in promoting "traditional family values" at the Beijing Conference in the mid 1990s. Roylance characterized the conference as a "wakeup call for those who believe the traditional family unit to be an important basic unit of society".[148]

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designates United Families International as an anti-gay hate group in March 2012.[why?][149][150][151]

In their Guide to Family Issues, UFI, considered by some to be part of the Christian right and a Mormon organization,[148][152] makes a number of claims about homosexuality, including[153]

  • "Discrimination on the basis of gender or race is vastly different from discrimination on the basis of sexual practice."
  • "Pedophilia is widespread among the homosexual community."
  • "Reputable studies and decades of successful treatment show that homosexual behavior can be changed."
  • "It is not marriage, but women in marriage, that help to contain and channel the male sexual appetite."
  • "In fact it is more compassionate to discourage homosexuality than to tolerate it."

Westboro Baptist Church

Picketing in Topeka, with the group's signature rainbow-colored picket signs.

The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) is an American, Independent Baptist church based in Topeka, Kansas known for its extreme ideologies, especially those against homosexuality.[154][155] The church is widely described as a hate group[156] and is monitored as such by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center. It consists primarily of members of the large family of the late Fred Phelps;[157] in 2011, the church stated that it had about 40 members.[158] The church is headquartered in a residential neighborhood on the west side of Topeka about three miles west of the Kansas State Capitol. Its first public service was held on the afternoon of Sunday, November 27, 1955.[159]

The church has been actively involved in the anti-gay movement since at least 1991 when it sought a crackdown on homosexual activity at Gage Park six blocks northwest of the church.[160] In addition to anti-gay protests at military funerals, the organization pickets other celebrity funerals and public events that are likely to get it media attention.[161] Protests have also been held demonstrating against Jews and some protests included stomping on the flag of the United States.

The WBC is not affiliated with any known Baptist conventions or associations and the two largest Baptist denominations, the Baptist World Alliance and the Southern Baptist Convention have denounced the WBC over the years.[162] The church describes itself as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles.[163]

The church runs numerous Web sites such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com and others expressing condemnation of homosexuality. The group bases its work around the belief expressed by its best known slogan and the address of its primary Web site, God Hates Fags, asserting that every tragedy in the world is linked to homosexuality—specifically society's increasing tolerance and acceptance of the so-called homosexual agenda. The group maintains that God hates gays above all other kinds of "sinners"[164] and that homosexuality should be a capital crime.[165] Their views on homosexuality are partially based on teachings found in the Old Testament, specifically Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, which they interpret to mean that homosexual behavior is detestable, and that homosexuals should be put to death, respectively.[164]

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes the Westboro Baptist Church as "virulently homophobic", whose anti-homosexual rhetoric they say is often a cover for anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, racism, and anti-Catholicism.[166] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an anti-discrimination group, has added the Westboro Baptist Church to its list of hate groups.[167][168][169]

Windsor Hills Baptist Church

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The SPLC added Windsor Hills Baptist Church to its list of anti-gay hate groups in March 2012.[110] The Oklahoma City church's pastor, Tom Vineyard, has spoken against nondiscrimination laws, and has claimed that half of all murders in large cities are committed by gay people.[170]

World Congress of Families

World Congress of Families is a United States organization that promotes Christian right values internationally.[171] It opposes same-sex marriage, pornography, and abortion, while supporting a society built on "the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage".[172][173][174][175] WCF comprises organizations in several countries, and most of its member partners are strongly active campaigners for pro-life positions and specific Christian views on marriage that oppose same-sex marriage.[176] WCF was formed in 1997 and is active worldwide, regularly organizing "large international 'pro-family' conventions".[177] Its opposition to gay marriage and abortion has attracted criticism.[178] It was added to the list of anti-LGBT hate groups in February 2014 for its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law and opposing LGBT rights internationally.[179][180][181][182]

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International

You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International (YCRBYCHI) is a United States organization identifying itself as a Christian youth ministry that holds assemblies, including music concerts and discussions with students, in public schools. Founded by Bradlee Dean, the organization is based in Annandale, Minnesota. YCRBYCHI's mission statement is: "To reshape America by re-directing the current and future generations both morally and spiritually through education, media, and the Judeo-Christian values found in our U.S. Constitution."[183]

The organization has garnered letters of support from school personnel, as well as some religious and political figures. It has also drawn controversy for using assemblies for religious purposes, misleading school administrators about the nature of the program, and proselytizing its views on abortion and homosexuality.[184][185][186]

The Southern Poverty Law Center designated the organization as an anti-gay hate group in March 2012.[187][188] In addition to "rhetoric about executing gays and lesbians," You Can Run But You Cannot Hide's president and CEO, Bradlee Dean, has stated that homosexuals "on average, they molest 117 people before they're found out. How many kids have been destroyed, how many adults have been destroyed because of crimes against nature?"[189] In response to media coverage, Dean has written an editorial alleging that his statements were taken out of context,[190] and produced a video[191] which sought to rebut the media's reporting on his statements. On July 27, 2011, Dean initiated a defamation lawsuit against MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, journalist Andy Birkey, and the Minnesota Independent, alleging that they intentionally misrepresented Dean's statements in order to advance a "homosexual agenda", and seeking more than $50,000,000 in damages.[192] Dean lost the case, and was ordered to pay MSNBC and Maddow's legal costs.[192] The SPLC linked Dean, among other anti-gay hate group leaders, to nativist movements that made an increase in numbers on their hate groups list.[193]

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