PFOX & Mission America Ask Followers to ‘Protect Heterosexuals’
Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays (PFOX) has emailed an “action alert” from Mission America to their subscriber list. Recipients are asked to “help keep the activists accountable” by reporting the web site “Prop 8 Maps” to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a hate group.
Subject: Protect Heterosexuals
Help Keep the Activists Accountable: One simple thing you can do
Please do one simple thing to keep rabid homosexual activism accountable.
Go to this page of the Southern Poverty Law Center web site:
http://www.splcenter.org/center/contact.jsp
Send them a complaint about a hate group. In the selection box, click on “Report hate activity in your community.” This should work even if you are not in California. Then just compose a quick message about the following group:
The group is this web site,
This site identifies the physical addresses of the Prop 8 donors–those who contributed to the successful California measure affirming traditional marriage.
Here’s a suggested text for your message:
Please list among your hate groups the organization responsible for the web site, http://www.eightmaps.com/ . This site has made it easy for anyone who wants to physically target a person who contributed funds to support the Proposition 8 marriage initiative. This is a direct incitement to possible violence, and the site needs to be taken down. In addition, please list under your “hate incidents” all the pro-homosexual, anti-marriage violence that occurred following the passage of Prop 8. Right now, there seems to be nothing listed on your site. Please be objective and list ALL types of “hate” incidents.
Thank you.
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Please pass this along message to as many people as possible.
If the SPLC really monitors hate and incitement to violence, they need to identify these folks as a hate group and also, list the virulent actions of the anti-marriage activists.Mission America
Mission America is one of the more extreme anti-gay “ministries” in the US, founded and led by an equally extreme and anti-gay Linda Harvey. Most recently they have backed the Walk Out on the Day of Silence, but XGW has a record of years worth of behavior that leaves little doubt about their stance on GLBT issues, or the rights of just about anyone who does not share their own particular sect of Christianity. Their home page is titled:
Mission:America – Learn the Truth about Homosexuality, Witchcraft, Changing Christian Church, Radical Feminism, and the Youth Culture
Prop 8 Maps (EightMaps.com) has taken publicly available campaign donation records, in this case concerning those who donated one-hundred dollars or more in support of Proposition 8 in California, and made the information easily searchable on a Google Maps mashup.
As we understand it, posting this information is legal and complies with transparency laws in that state. Mission America and some other pro-Proposition 8 groups believe instead that this is an attempt at intimidation. An attempt to persuade a judge of the latter was unsuccessful.
Doreen, earlier you said:
You said this when the discussion still lacked any facts concerning “terrible things” supposedly being done to those on the public donor lists. IOW, there were no facts to support anything being done to them at all, and yet you were implying through your question that they might have done some of those things (which we hadn’t even shown to exist) to themselves. You even assigned the motive — “to hurt our side.”
We were already in a specious argument and this brought us even farther from the facts. If you knew of an instance where someone claimed to have been harmed due to being listed in public donor records and further, you had some evidence that they had faked the incident, then you could have provided that as the basis and suggested your conclusion.
No one said you had a hidden motive.