http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeff-sessions-addresses-anti-lgbt-hate-group-doj/story?id=48593488
[...]
Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to an alleged hate
group at an event closed to reporters on Tuesday night, but the
Department of Justice is refusing to reveal what he said.
Sessions addressed members of the Alliance Defending Freedom, which was
designated an “anti-LGBT hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center
in 2016, at the Summit on Religious Liberty at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna
Niguel, in Dana Point, California.
[...]
The above is what ABC said. The very first issue here is that the
Southern Poverty Law Center is an advocacy group, and is not in any way
objective.
Here is Mollie Hemingway's response:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/07/13/abc-news-christians-who-believe-in-the-first-amendment-are-a-hate-group/
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ABC News’ Pete Madden and Erin Galloway smeared Christians who believe
the Bill of Rights secures religious liberty as a “hate group,” in an
article this week headlined, “Jeff Sessions addresses ‘anti-LGBT hate
group,’ but DOJ won’t release his remarks.” The lede of the story made
it clear this was not just the work of a rogue headline writer but the
failure of the reporters themselves:
"Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered a speech to an alleged hate
group at an event closed to reporters on Tuesday night, but the
Department of Justice is refusing to reveal what he said.
First, a note that you can — and should — read the prepared remarks of
the Attorney General here at The Federalist."
Who is this “hate group”? Alliance Defending Freedom is not a hate group
at all, but a civil liberties organization that battles for religious
liberty. And they’re not a fringe group either. They just weeks ago won
their most recent Supreme Court victory — Trinity Lutheran v. Comer —
7-2. It was their fifth Supreme Court victory in seven years, during
which time they’ve had no losses at the high court.
[...]
When did it become "hate" to defend the constitutional rights of others?