Southern Poverty Law Center Adds MassResistance to Hate Group List

The Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”) has added MassResistance, an anti-gay organization in Massachusetts that has actively opposed gay marriage and any other legal protections for LGBT citizens for that matter. While MassResistance is a fringe group in many ways, they put out incredibly vile and untrue information on a regular basis and as such, their hate speech should not go unnoticed. The SPLC designation of MassResistance as a hate group will assist in this endeavor. A list of the anti-gay hate groups identified by SPLC can be found here: http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/type.jsp?DT=26. It is noteworthy that among the other identified hate groups are (1) Paul Cameron’s Family Research Institute which continuously puts out outrageously false anti-gay propaganda which is then cited as “expert” opinion by Christianists and nutcases like Sally Kern, (2) Traditional Values Coalition which knowingly puts out false anti-gay propaganda, and (3) Scott Lively’s Abiding Truth Ministries (Lively is the author of the “Pink Swastika” which alleges the gays controlled the Nazi regime and were responsible for the Holocaust and that gays were NOT persecuted by the Nazi regime.

The unhinged folks at MassResistance are not too happy with their justly deserved designation by the SPLC and made the following statement on their blog:

MassResistance blog has identified the communist Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a "HATE GROUP" (along with Bay Windows, QueerToday, MassEquality, BAGLY, the Mass. Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth, GLSEN, PFLAG, Human Rights Campaign, etc. -- the list is endless...), following SPLC's libel of MassResistance and other pro-family groups, including the Traditional Values Coalition.

No doubt they will also be bemoaning the ongoing “persecution” of Christians as a result of the hate group designation by SPLC, which they call “communist.”