Ever since last month’s tragic shooting at the Family Research Council’s headquarters, the Religious Right has been on a mission to lay the blame on the Southern Poverty Law Center for designating FRC and others as anti-gay hate groups.
Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel, in particular, has been on a crusade to blame the shooting on the SPLC and on Friday’s episode of the “Faith and Freedom” radio program, warned everyone in the media not to ever dare to cite the SPLC’s anti-gay hate group designations ever again, saying that if they do and “something like this again happens, [they] will also have blood on their hands”:
