The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) got its start tracking violent White Supremacist groups. Alas, it has had to branch out to both tracking hate groups of all sorts and making sure the rest of the country knows they are hate groups. As expected, a few anti-gay and "pro-marriage" groups also made the list, some only recently added.
The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission is miffed that these Christian groups are included. Predictably, they claim that Christian bashing needs to stop. Strangely, they don't say which groups are unfairly labeled.
One would think that a Christian group, one that believes in a bible in which the primary emphasis is on "God is love," would take stock of what they are doing when someone labels them a hate group. The SPLC is clear that there labeling is not because of a disagreement about homosexuality. It is because these groups are "subjecting gays and lesbians to campaigns of personal vilification."
Loving your enemy is hard. I get that. Over eight years I wasn't able to figure out how to love Bush. Even so, there is still a long way between having a disagreement or not being able to love and vilification. And that's what brings about the label of hate and my claim they are not Christian.
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