Merchants of Evil

The Random House Dictionary defines hate this way: "To dislike intensely or passionately; detest. An intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility."  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, (SPLC) any person or organization that believes strictly in the Judeo-Christian view of marriage between one man and one woman is a hater.

Thus, the Family Research Council, (FRC) an American conservative Christian group founded in 1981 by James Dobson, is a hate group, according to the SPLC. The FRC promotes biblical Judeo-Christian values such as traditional marriage, marital fidelity and abstinence from sexual relations until marriage. For nearly 2,000 years, those values formed the bedrock of western civilization until recently when the rise of godless secularism, coupled with the declining influence of Judeo-Christianity made such moral abominations as homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderism and gay marriage socially acceptable.

Certainly, the increasing acceptance of homosexuality throughout the western world has largely been the result of powerful gay rights organizations that have forced many to embrace their lifestyle through political lobbying to outright intimidation of those who resisted. For example, the American Psychiatric Association considered homosexuality an emotional disorder until the early 1970s when gay lobbyists used their economic and political clout to coerce the APA to change its view of homosexuality and redefine that lifestyle as normal.

Gay rights groups have also bullied and intimidated media organizations and educational institutions into promoting their lifestyle and they have even recruited civil rights organizations such as the SPLC to do their bidding. The SPLC was originally founded in 1971 by Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. as a nonprofit legal organization to combat white supremacist groups that persecuted blacks and other minorities. While the SPLC did heavy financial damage to such groups as the Ku Klux Klan by filing numerous lawsuits against them, they were eventually persuaded by gay activists to take up their cause and condemn those who opposed the homosexual lifestyle and gay marriage.

Such as the Family Research Council. The FRC is on the SPLC's list of hate groups and it's no surprise that the FRC was recently targeted by a militant homosexual named Floyd Corkins II who planned to commit mass murder at the FRC's headquarters in Washington D.C. before he was stopped by Security Guard Leo Johnson who was shot by Corkins. Fortunately, Corkins was a bad shot and merely wounded Johnson in the arm before Johnson managed to wrestle him to the ground and prevent what could have been a disaster.

But the SPLC has become the very antithesis of what it was originally created for. Instead of combating hatred and bigotry, the SPLC promotes evil behind the facade of civil rights and tolerance. Floyd Corkins II is a product of the SPLC's venomous rhetoric against bible-believing Christians who are guilty of nothing more than holding to a biblical worldview that has sustained western civilization for thousands of years.

But that biblical worldview is now being threatened by the new merchants of evil such as the SPLC. If you speak up for traditional biblical values, even if those values are protected by the First Amendment, you run the risk of being marginalized, ostracized, humiliated and being labeled a bigot by such groups as the SPLC. And you run the risk of being targeted for murder by their armed stooges such as Floyd Corkins II.

Over 2,700 years ago, the Lord spoke this to the ancient prophet Isaiah concerning those who inverted good and evil: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight." (Isaiah 5:20-21) The Lord pronounced a curse upon those who promote evil as good and threaten evil to those who do good. Woe indeed to the Southern Poverty Law Center.