Southern Poverty Law Center urges Army to re-ban anti-LGBT hate groups

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Southern Poverty Law Center urges Army to re-ban anti-LGBT hate groups
By David Ferguson
Thursday, December 12, 2013 15:33 EST

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) urged the U.S. Army Thursday to rethink its decision to allow soldiers to belong to hate groups like the American Family Association (AFA).

According to a post by the SPLC’s Josh Glasstetter, Army Secretary John McHugh caved in to pressure from right-wing media to have the AFA declared an acceptable organization for soldiers to belong to. Now, the SPLC is urging McHugh to re-think that decision.

The SPLC has long listed the AFA as a hate group, not because of its Judeo-Christian focus, but because of the organization’s long-standing habit of calling LGBT people child molesters and blaming them for the Nazi Holocaust in Europe.

Fox News Radio commentator and far-right agitator Todd Starnes found out that the military agreed with the SPLC that the AFA is a hate group and wrote a column saying that the military has tarred all Christians with the same brush.