A Charity Database Now Highlights 'Hate' Groups, So the Christian Right Is Angry
A Charity Database Now Highlights “Hate” Groups, So the Christian Right Is Angry
June 23, 2017 by Hemant Mehta
The Southern Poverty Law Center may be best known for its “Hate Group” database. It keeps track of organizations like the KKK that promote irrational hatred of people who aren’t white and Christian groups that preach inflammatory anti-gay rhetoric by spreading lies about homosexuality. To be sure, most groups don’t make that list. Megachurches that oppose marriage equality, for example, aren’t considered hateful by SPLC standards. Neither are groups like Focus on the Family despite the hateful things that James Dobson used to say.
The “hate group” designation is one may groups have fought against, saying that SPLC is attacking them for their Christian beliefs. That’s a lie. SPLC doesn’t care if you’re Christian or not. But if you spread misinformation — like saying gay adults exhibit “predatory” behavior and try to “recruit” children — you’ve crossed the line.
That’s why groups like Alliance Defending Freedom, Liberty Counsel, Family Research Council, and the American Family Association make the list.
And now that designation may hurt them even more.
GuideStar, the non-profit database that posts publicly available tax documents for charities, has now added a “Hate Group” tag on all organizations that fit the bill.
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These groups can all go to hell. 
