Staver: Labeling Us As ‘Hate Groups’ Is Just Like What Happened in Nazi Germany

On a recent “Faith and Freedom” radio broadcast, Matt Barber and Mat Staver were discussing the current Religious Right outrage over an Army Reserve briefing in which “Evangelical Christianity” was listed among various kinds of “religious extremism.”

A spokesperson said the slide was not produced by the Army and was removed and the person responsible for it has apologized, but Staver and Barber know who is really to blame: the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In fact, Staver said, what the SPLC is doing by labeling Religious Right organization as hate groups “it’s just like in Nazi Germany” where Jews were dehumanized and demonized so that when they were ultimately killed, “people turned a blind eye”: