I spent last week with a hate group. How ‘bout you? For the Colson
Center, I’m John Stonestreet with The Point.
Last week, ABC and NBC copied and pasted a label from the
Southern Poverty Law Center and ran it as a headline on their ebsite. “Jeff
Sessions Addresses anti-LGBT Hate Growup.” The group they were referring to
wasn’t the Klan or doesn’t have any history of violence. It was the Alliance
Defending Freedom, a premier legal organization defending religious liberty. In
fact, ADF just won their seventh case in seven years at the Supreme
Court!
Look, it doesn’t surprise me at all that the SPLC, a group that has far
strayed from its roots, adopted a wholesale liberal agenda, and incited violence
against conservative organizations, would call ADF “a hate group.” That just
demonstrates how much of an extremist organization they really
are.
But for the major media outlets like ABC and NBC to use that terminology
for a respected legal organization, even if they did put the words in scare
quotes, is simply slander. And they should apologize. Breakpoint.
