The Illinois Family Institute has posted this article on OpposingViews.com in response to its being placed on a “Hate Groups” list prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The article reports:
Unfortunately, for an organization with such a noble birth and one that has achieved so much good for so many, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become a dark shadow of its former self — one that promotes destructive lies and anti-Christian bigotry. Our inclusion on this list cannot be ignored. The SPLC is an influential organization that supplies information to law enforcement agencies.
Since IFI stands unequivocally opposed to both violence and hatred, and since IFI holds the very same views on homosexuality as, for example, the Vatican, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, The Presbyterian Church of America, the Southern Baptist Convention, the Evangelical Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, Concerned Women for America, American Family Association, Liberty Counsel, and Focus on the Family and their scores of local Family Policy Councils, we were wondering why we are listed as an “anti-gay” hate group when these other organizations are not?
Could it be that consistency in the application of their selection criteria would expose the illegitimacy of the SPLC’s project?
