Tag Archives: Mark Potok

A Kindler, Gentler Anti-Christian SPLC?

Posted on November 12, 2019 by David E Smith

On Friday Oct. 8, IFI received this strangely kind email from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “investigative reporter” Brett Barrouquere (an email similar, I learned, to one sent to Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, but more on that later):

Hi,

I’m a reporter with The Intelligence Project in Montgomery, Alabama. I hope this finds you well.

Currently, I’m assisting a colleague with a story about Franklin Graham speaking to IFI. Why did IFI choose him as a speaker? What did he tell the group? How was he received during his talk?

And, has

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Posted in Sexuality | Tagged Brett Barrouquere, Center for Immigration Studies, Franklin Graham, Hate watch, Heidi Beirich, Mark Krikorian, Mark Potok, Michael Edison Hayden, Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, Stephen Miller | Comments Off

The SPLC: An Anti-Christian Hate Group

Posted on August 19, 2017 by David E Smith

“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:18-19).

In the wake of the Charlottesville melee, the mainstream press is citing the disreputable Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and its “hate” groups list ad nauseum with nary a peep about the repeated criticism of the SPLC as a bastion of anti-Christian bigotry.

The Illinois Family Institute (IFI) …

Posted in Federal, Illinois Politics, Religious Liberty | Tagged Carl Cannon, Charles Murray, Hunter Madsen, Ku Klux Klan, Mark Potok, Marshall Kirk, Middlebury College, Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC, Stephen B. Bright | Comments Off

Silencing the Silencers

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Benjamin D. Smith

Frustrated by its inability to win elections, the left is attempting to silence opponents through intimidation, either in the streets or in the courts. The latest example is the hijacking of Guidestar USA by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Guidestar is a database of more than 2 million nonprofit and non-governmental (NGO) organizations. It's considered the foremost authority on nonprofits, and had a self-avowed reputation for "remaining neutral."

Posted in Faith, Marriage/Family/Culture, Religious Liberty | Tagged Ben Carson, Edwin Meese, Floyd Corkins II, GuideStar, Jacob Harold, James T. Hodgkinson, Leo Johnson, Maajid Nawaz, Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center, Steve Scalise | Comments Off

Fred Phelps and the Anti-Gospel of Hate — A Necessary Word

Posted on March 27, 2014 by David E Smith

Fred Phelps is dead. The fire-and-brimstone preacher, who for many years was pastor of the institution known as Westboro Baptist Church, died late Wednesday in a hospice in Topeka, Kansas. The announcement was made on his church’s website. The wording was simple: “Fred W. Phelps Sr. has gone the way of all flesh.” Thus brings to an end one of most bitter lives in modern history — and one of the most harmful to the Gospel.

Fred Phelps became infamous due to one central fact — he was a world-class hater. He brought great discredit to the Gospel of Christ …

Posted in Faith | Tagged Fred Phelps, Mark Potok, Westboro Baptist Church | Comments Off