Anti-Gay Hate Groups Waiting in the Wings

Responding to a question about uniting gay partners during the immigration process, [Family Research Council (FRC) head Peter] Sprigg said, "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them."

Last February, Sprigg appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and said, "I think there would be a place for criminal sanctions on homosexual behavior."

"So we should outlaw gay behavior?" Matthews asked.

"Yes," Sprigg replied.

The American Family Association's Bryan Fischer claimed in a May 27 blog post that "homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and 6 million dead Jews."

The Traditional Values Coalition, which was already an SPLC hate group, has a page on its website headlined "Homosexual Urban Legends," which ridiculously asserts without evidence that, "[t]he cold, hard fact is that teens who are struggling with homosexual feelings are more likely to be sexually molested by a homosexual school counselor or teacher than to commit suicide over their feelings of despair."
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In its report, SPLC analyzed hate crime statistics based on FBI figures. The SPLC compared the rate of victimization for gay people to that of the other groups. The figures show that homosexuals are 2.4 times more likely to suffer a violent hate crime attack than Jews. In the same way, gays are 2.6 times more likely to be attacked than blacks; 4.4 times more likely than Muslims; 13.8 times more likely than Latinos; and 41.5 times more likely than whites. The bottom line, according to SPLC is that, "Homosexuals are far more likely than any other minority group in the United States to be victimized by violent hate crime."

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