Today’s episode of “WallBuilders Live” was dedicated entirely to attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center with David Barton repeatedly (and falsely) claiming that the SPLC had placed him on its “hate list” while guest Jerry Boykin reiterated his claims that the SPLC was “anti-American,” “anti-Christian,” and “anti-Semitic.”
The most interesting revelation was when Boykin, along with Barton and co-host Rick Green, wondered how an organization like the Family Research Council could be classified as a hate group when, during last month’s shooting at FRC headquarters, the building manager did not kill the shooter after he had disarmed him because God told him not to:
Boykin: Let me tell you a quick thing you may not even know; the day that the shooter came in here and shot our building manager who just happened to be sitting at the reception desk that day. The building manager, after being shot, wrestled him to the ground with one arm, took his pistol away from him, bleeding profusely and started to shoot him and he said to us “God told me not to kill that man.”
Now I want you to think about that. We’re the hate group but he said “God told me not to kill him.” And he could have justifiably killed that guy right there that had just shot him.
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Green: What a great response by that guy at FRC. I didn’t realize … man what a witness that he did the way that he responded.
Barton: The Lord said don’t shoot him and we’re the haters? Nobody would have said a thing if he had shot that guy that had just shot him and shattered his arm, he was under attack, self defense, he’s got a perfect right, he’s an officer, he can do that and the Lord says “hey, don’t shoot that guy.” And somehow we’re the haters in this thing. How crazy is that?
