Southern Poverty Law Center 'hates' anyone who doesn't agree with its own sense of morality

To The Daily Sun,

This is in response to Jennifer Abbott's jeremiad extolling the wonders of the Southern Poverty Law Center. True, it was invaluable during the Civil Rights era, it has degenerated into a hate-mongering entity that accuse others as being such. Why do I say that?

Anything or anyone that is against the the progressive (or as she says "enlightened") morality it holds are labeled as hate groups or hate filled people, without exception. The vitriol by the SPLC, for instance, against the Family Research Center was unbelievable simply because as a Christian organization it espouses a traditional form of marriage between a man and a woman. The SPLC labeled it, simply because of their Christian and traditional marriage stance, as a "hate" group. It was so bad that it literally triggered Floyd Lee Corkins to go to the FRC headquarters with a gun to kill as many people as he could over ideological reasons promulgated by the SPLC. That wasn't SPLC generated hatred personified, Ms. Abbot? Let's add in their latest insult against N.H. State Rep. Dan Itse, whose crime is that he is based on the constitutions (U.S. and N.H.). I guess both are now "hate" documents.

Ms. Abbott makes it clear that she wants everyone to join her sainted SPLC. Why would I, as a Christian, want to join such a group (the saying of Groucho Marx on such a "club" circling my head) that already hates me? Is that what you see to, Ms. Abbott, that anyone who doesn't believe as you do should be labeled as a "hater" simply because of a disagreement like this? I believe in traditional marriage — why does that make me a "hater?" Or more important, that you believe I am anti-LGBT? Should I also be hated simply because I believe in an enumerated right even though I am a law abiding citizen who understands the responsibility that goes along with that right? Or do you absolutely believe that all gun owners are guilty of the crimes of a few? Why do you pronounce us guilty already? Why do you pronounce us guilty simply because you believe we are all white supremacists simply because of the color of our skin (or to be more technically correct, the lack of melanin in our tissues)?

Such a level of discourse you espouse. It is clear from your letter that anyone who is not on your side, even those that only wish to be left alone and not wishing to choose a side, are to be hated. I appreciate you making that distinction clear to the rest of us; it is akin to what Mussolini held about how people should view "The State." So much for the Freedom of Conscience, eh — we are allowed only yours? It seems than anyone that disagrees with you is a "hater" and you've no problem in labeling and otherizing millions of people that simply think differently than you. Isn't that hatred personified?

Your letter shows you in a bad light in that it seems you believe that those of us who carry arms hate children. What a way to go through life! Only extreme ideologues put up such a strawman argument as "assault rifle is more important than a child's life;" I dismiss that construction out of hand, as it sets up an "one or the other" situation that doesn't exist. Did it ever occur to you that we law-abiding citizens carry BECAUSE we would protect a child in a such a situation?

And you as well?

Skip Murphy

Gilford