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The Southern Poverty Law Center has created a list of its
adversaries which it calls “hate groups.” This list includes
champions of marriage and the family, including our name and
those of some of our UN pro-life and pro-family coalition
members.

Unfortunately, this false moniker has been wielded by those who
oppose the natural family and marriage to scare government
officials away from working with us and deter those who would
support our work from funding us and others.

The real purpose of this list is to silence opponents, to
isolate them. It is a kind of weaponized political correctness.
It is also about raising money for the Southern Poverty Law
Center, which has more than $300 million dollars in the bank and
rakes in more than $50 million every year.

The SPLC and its allies are getting away with this scare tactic
in part because they hide behind the perception that they are a
human rights organization that champions fairness and American
values.

This is false.

C-Fam’s core mission is truth telling, and we believe that the
truth about SPLC should be known so that people of good faith
can make up their own mind about SPLC scare tactics and put an
end to them.

The good news is that many are waking up to the Southern Poverty
Law Center. The FBI used to partner with them in identifying
hate groups. They no longer do. The Army used to have them
lecture on domestic terrorism. The Army has ended that
relationship.

Below you will find a powerful video exposing the Southern
Poverty Law Center and their stated goal of destroying their
political opponents. You will also find many essays and articles
about this nefarious group, including articles from left-wing
groups who are also concerned about the tactics of the Southern
Poverty Law Center.

Charity Watchdog GuideStar Labels Christian Non-Profits as “Hate-
Groups”
Austin Ruse, Center for Family and Human Rights, 6 Jul 2017

“The non-profit law firm Liberty Counsel is suing the non-profit
monitoring group GuideStar in federal court for defamation. At
issue is GuideStar’s use of the “hate-list” published annually
by the Southern Poverty Law Center that in recent years has
targeted Christian groups it disagrees with on public policy.”

NGO financial monitor GuideStar may resume using Southern
Poverty Law Center’s ‘hate-group’ label
Fox News, 28 Jun 2017

“Some Christian groups complained that they were pegged as “hate
groups” by SPLC because they oppose same-sex marriage. They
argued that it wrong to lump them in the same category as, for
instance, the Ku Klux Klan and skinheads.”

Guidestar Drops SPLC’s Fake ‘Hate Group’ Label
Scott Walter, The Capital Research Center, 26 Jun 2017

“The SPLC is a radical group that uses its infamous ‘hate
groups’ list to lump together genuine racists like the KKK with
mainstream conservative groups.”

After conservative backlash, charity tracker GuideStar removes
‘hate group’ labels
Susan Hogan, The Washington Post, 26 Jun 2017

“But some conservative organizations complained that the
center’s lumping them together with violent racist groups wasn’t
based on objective research but on a political agenda.
GuideStar’s usage

Real Time with Bill Maher
Episode #430, Maajid Nawaz Interview, HBO, 23 Jun 2017

Charity website cites threats in removing hate group labels
Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press, 23 Jun 2017

“A website that maintains a massive database of information
about U.S. charities said Friday that it will remove warning
labels flagging dozens of nonprofits as hate groups after
threats directed at its staff.”

The Insidious Influence of the SPLC: Its branding of ‘hate
groups’ and individuals is biased, sometimes false—and feeds
polarization
Jeryl Bier, The Wall Street Journal, 21 June 2017

Nonprofit Tracker Smears Dozens of Conservative Organizations as
‘Hate Groups’
Rachel del Guidice, The Daily Signal, 21 Jun 2017

“GuideStar, which calls itself a “neutral” aggregator of tax
data on charities, recently incorporated “hate group” labels
produced by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.”

Charity website flags dozens of nonprofits as hate groups
AP Breitbart, 8 Jun 2017

“’This is defamation. GuideStar is an accomplice to this
defamation now,’ said Mark Krikorian, executive director of the
Center for Immigration Studies.

12 Ways The Southern Poverty Law Center Is A Scam To Profit From
Hate-Mongering
Stella Morabito, The Federalist, 17 May 2017

“The SPLC’s main role is as a massively funded propaganda smear
machine… Two years ago, the FBI deleted the SPLC from its
website’s list of legitimate resources on hate crimes. This is a
promising sign of growing clarity that the SPLC’s designations
for hate groups lack legitimacy.”

Trust Not the Southern Poverty Law Center
Charlotte Allen, The Weekly Standard, 7 Mar 2017

“It’s hard to say what’s worse: the outrageousness of the
Southern Poverty Law Center in pinning the label “white
nationalist” and “extremist” on anyone who bucks the prevailing
politically correct narrative, or the credulity of the
mainstream media in treating the SPLC as a neutral source.”

Some People Love to Call Names: The Southern Poverty Law
Center’s extremist list isn’t a Consumer Reports guide. It’s a
political tool
Karl Zinsmeister, Philanthropy Roundtable’s Philanthropy
Magazine, Spring 2017

“At the end of 2016, the Chronicle of ­Philanthropy published an
article headlined “Dozens of ‘Hate Groups’ Have Charity Status,
Chronicle Study Finds.” The “study” took at face value a list of
900 entities pinned with the “hate” label by a notoriously
partisan attack group—the Southern ­Poverty Law Center. Over the
years, numerous investigators have pointed out that most of the
scary KKK and Nazi and militia groups that the SPLC insists are
lurking under our beds are actually ghost entities, with no
employees, no address, hardly any followers, and little or no
footprint.”

Everyone Who Disagrees with the SPLC Is Hitler
National Review, 1 Nov 2016

“The Southern Poverty Law Center, which made its reputation
tracking and cataloguing violent extremist groups, has set its
sights on a new group of people who are neither violent nor
extreme but who are in fact precisely the opposite of that:
critics of the violence and extremism too often associated with
Islam.”

How Did Maajid Nawaz End Up on a List of ‘Anti-Muslim
Extremists’?: “They put a target on my head.”
David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 29 Oct 2016

“When earlier this week, the Southern Poverty Law Center and
three other groups released a list of 15 “anti-Muslim
extremists,” many of the names came as no surprise… But one name
in particular stuck out: Maajid Nawaz, a British activist who
runs the Quilliam Foundation, which calls itself ‘the world’s
first counter-extremism think tank.’”

Debunking the SPLC “Hate Group” Myth
Liberty Counsel, 5 Oct 2015

“The Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC), an organization that has
recently defamed Liberty Counsel, is a money-driven organization
that has admitted its own hypocrisy, lost sight of its own
vision, and stooped to arbitrary name-calling to pander to its
donors and media sensationalists. It has even been exposed by
our courts to be instrumental in the attempted mass murder of
American citizens. Allow us to set forth facts about this group.”

Law Enforcement Charitable Foundation, INC.
Intelligence Brief, Vol. 1, Pg 13-16, Sep 2016

The Hate List: Is America really being overrun by right-wing
militants?
J.M. Berger, Foreign Policy, 12 Mar 2013

“The problem is that the SPLC and the ADL are not objective
purveyors of data. They’re anti-hate activists. There’s nothing
wrong with that — advocating against hate is a noble idea. But
as activists, their research needs to be weighed more carefully
by media outlets that cover their pronouncements.”

C-Fam Response to Southern Poverty Law Center Regarding
Classification as a Hate Group
C-Fam Staff, Center for Family and Human Rights, 11 Mar 2014

“In response to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), C-Fam
and other targeted Christian groups point out that SPLC’s
criteria and the application of the criteria is biased against
SPLC’s conservative opponents.”

Southern Poverty Law Center: Wellspring of Manufactured Hate
James Simpson, The Capital Research Center, 7 Oct 2012

“The Southern Poverty Law Center began with an admirable purpose
but long ago transformed into a machine for raising money and
launching left-wing political attacks. Lately it’s become more
of a threat to free speech and civil debate than a defender of
the weak or a foe of violent extremism.”

“Hate,” Immigration, and the Southern Poverty Law Center
Ken Silverstein, Harper’s Magazine, 22 Mar 2010

“much like CIS, I feel that the Law Center is essentially a
fraud and that it has a habit of casually labeling organizations
as “hate groups.” (Which doesn’t mean that some of the groups it
criticizes aren’t reprehensible.) In doing so, the SPLC shuts
down debate, stifles free speech, and most of all, raises a pile
of money, very little of which is used on behalf of poor people.”

Exposing The Southern Poverty Law Center… Now It’s Personal!
Debbie Morgan, InfoWars, 19 Mar 2010

“After recovering from the “news” that the new film Camp FEMA is
somehow racist, I thought it might behoove me to take another
look. Maybe the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) knows
something I don’t about “racism.” After exploring their
interesting site, it has become even more clear that they are
not on the side of We-the-People. In fact, they may have been
founded on some very sound principles, but their present-day
agenda is profoundly more nefarious.”

Guilt by Association: The Southern Poverty Law Center Hurls a
Punch
Carol M. Swain, Huffington Post, 18 Mar 2010

“I have been highly critical of the organization [SPLC] in
recent months because of its penchant for going after
conservative individuals and groups who have exercised their
First Amendment Rights to speak out on issues like illegal
immigration. In fact, I have published two Huffington Post blogs
critical of the new direction that the SPLC has taken. So, I was
not exactly surprised that the SPLC would seek revenge against
me, a relatively conservative black woman.”

Mission Creep and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Misguided
Focus
Carol M. Swain, Huffington Post, 9 Oct 2009

“…what is most shocking is that the SPLC has spent far more
resources hounding conservative organizations, such as the
Center for Immigration Studies, and prominent citizens like
CNN’s award-winning anchor Lou Dobbs, than it has protecting the
civil rights of American voters, which includes white people as
well as black. The unrelenting attacks on Mr. Dobbs and others
are shameless. The once venerable organization wages war against
conservative individuals, principles, and organizations.”

Mediocre Grade for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Latest
Report
Carol M. Swain, Huffington Post, 13 Sep 2009

“Instead of providing readers with a systematic analysis and
hard data supporting its warning about a growing threat, the
SPLC’s report was chocked full of vague generalities and unnamed
sources. Most importantly, it made no serious effort to
distinguish between individuals exercising their constitutional
rights and groups that might actually pose a threat to society.”

King of the Hate Business: With haters on the wane, what will
the hate-seekers do?
Alexander Cockburn, The Nation, 29 Apr 2009

“It’s also horrible news for people who raise money and make
money selling the notion that there’s a right resurgence out
there in the hinterland with legions of haters ready to march
down Main Street draped in Klan robes…What is the archsalesman
of hatemongering, Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law
Center, going to do now? Ever since 1971, US Postal Service
mailbags have bulged with his fundraising letters, scaring
dollars out of the pockets of trembling liberals aghast at his
lurid depictions of a hate-sodden America in dire need of legal
confrontation by the SPLC.”

The Southern Poverty Business Model
Ken Silverstein. Harper’s Magazine, 2 Nov 2007

“Many of you out there have no doubt received in the mail
desperate cries for help from the Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC), the do-gooder group that does very little good
considering the vast sums of money it raises. But before you
pull out your checkbook, make sure to read the following letter
that Stephen Bright, an Atlanta-based civil rights and anti-
death penalty attorney, recently wrote in declining an
invitation to an event that honors Morris Dees, head of the
SPLC.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center: A Twisted Definition of ‘Hate’
Matthew Vadum, The Capital Research Center, 1 Nov 2006

“Those who question the SPLC’s approach to race are blacklisted
as contemptible bigots. Conservative writers have observed that
to be called a ‘racist’ today is akin to the label ‘Communist’
in the 1950s. Indeed, the SPLC’s tactics are hard to distinguish
from those of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy, who was also a
fan of guilt by association.”

The church of Morris Dees: How the Southern Poverty Law Center
profits from intolerance
Ken Silverstein, Harper’s Magazine, Nov 2000

“Today, the SPLC spends most of its time–and money–on a
relentless fund-raising campaign, peddling memberships in the
church of tolerance with all the zeal of a circuit rider passing
the collection plate…The Center earned $44 million last year
alone–$27 million from fund-raising and $17 million from stocks
and other investments–but spent only $13 million on civil rights
program, making it one of the most profitable charities in the
country.”

The SPLC Calls Names
Philanthropy Roundtable

“The Southern Poverty Law Center hasn’t contributed anything to
law or poverty for a generation. Instead it’s become a political
attack group and fundraising scam.”

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