Mollie Hemingway:
ABC News’ Pete Madden and Erin Galloway smeared Christians who believe the Bill of Rights secures religious liberty as a “hate group,” in an article this week headlined, “Jeff Sessions addresses ‘anti-LGBT hate group,’ but DOJ won’t release his remarks.” The lede of the story made it clear this was not just the work of a rogue headline writer but the failure of the reporters themselves:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to an alleged hate group at an event closed to reporters on Tuesday night, but the Department of Justice is refusing to reveal what he said.
First, a note that you can — and should — read the prepared remarks of the Attorney General here at The Federalist.
Who is this “hate group”? Alliance Defending Freedom is not a hate group at all, but a civil liberties organization that battles for religious liberty. And they’re not a fringe group either. They just weeks ago won their most recent Supreme Court victory — Trinity Lutheran v. Comer — 7-2. It was their fifth Supreme Court victory in seven years, during which time they’ve had no losses at the high court.
And the group is ranked among the top law firms in the country for its successes at the Supreme Court.
Most recently the non-profit law firm found out that the Supreme Court agreed to hear another one of their cases dealing with artistic freedom and religious liberty.
To characterize such an accomplished civil rights group as a ‘hate group’ is unacceptable and inexcusable. It boggles the mind why ABC News, in the midst of cratering credibility, would disparage Christian efforts in favor of religious liberty in such a mendacious way.
How in the world did this happen?
Well, for some reason ABC News chose to wholly adopt the Southern Poverty Law Center’s framing for the significance of the attorney general’s speech to the group. Check it out:
Here’s why reporters such as Pete Madden and Erin Galloway should be wary before slightly rewriting SPLC press releases and passing off the work as their own. SPLC previously had a reservoir of credibility based on a history of good work exposing legitimately nefarious individuals and groups. In recent years, however, that reservoir has all but dried up as SPLC has gone after reasonable groups it merely disagrees with politically but labels as hate groups. It engages in this campaign while ignoring serious problems on the left.
SPLC has the gall to list the Family Research Council as a “hate group,” for instance, even after an SPLC follower used an SPLC “hate map” to locate the Family Research Council offices in Washington, D.C., and commit an act of terrorism and attempted mass murder against the group. Thankfully, the SPLC-inspired terrorist was stopped by the security guard he shot when he arrived. Read all about that incident here.
The most recent attempted assassination by a left-wing terrorist was also a follower of SPLC. As Jeryl Bier wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “The Insidious Influence of the SPLC: Its branding of ‘hate groups’ and individuals is biased, sometimes false—and feeds polarization.”
Last week the SPLC found itself in the awkward position of disavowing the man who opened fire on Republican members of Congress during baseball practice. “We’re aware that the SPLC was among hundreds of groups that the man identified as the shooter ‘liked’ on Facebook,” SPLC president Richard Cohen said in a statement. “I want to be as clear as I can possibly be: The SPLC condemns all forms of violence.”
It’s not just Christians who SPLC targets.
The Anarcists Broadcasting Company(ABC) and its various little jerks who still realy trusts these media bottom dwelling muck-suckers anymore?
Let’s see… does this “hate group” ever march and chant, “WHAT DO WE WANT? DEAD COPS!! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!!”? Does this “hate group” provide 99% of all the terrorists and terrorism we see in the world today?
Brave, courageous journalists… they can attack those they know won’t retaliate but, even when they are within the same group they are attacking they will not touch those who have a habit of retaliating with violence.
ABC could just as easily call out Black Lives Matter for their hateful rhetoric or the many mosques that preach hatred of gays and death to anyone not Islamic but, of course, they never do. The center of this point is that anyone that does not agree with opening the rights cupboard and allowing the LGBT thugs to go in and take whatever they want at the expense of everyone else are “hateful”.
Want a hate group? Look no further than the SPLC who promote hate and violence. But, then the left would have to stop being hypocritical and when your ideology is so corrupt and failed as theirs, that would be suicide.
political journalists, as found in the most noted and hilarious form, both print and media, masturbate their egos and ejaculate their literary semen on print and media. when did talk show host, comedians, and politicians become experts. the drama of late night tv is a prompter. black lives matter ( burglary , larceny and murder) is a domestic terrorist groups, back panthers (jessie jackson) rape king of chi., fired from operating breadbasket for embezzlement, and al sharpton, an alleged undercover fbi informant who brought down several of the families in NYC, but never paid his taxes and never signed in at the wipe house under the gay pres aka radicalized muslin terrorist