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Catholic Archbishop Smacks SPLC for Falsely Labeling Alliance Defending Freedom a ‘Hate Group’
Cybercast News Service ^ | August 25, 2017 | 1:52 PM EDT | CNSNews.com Staff

Posted on 08/25/2017 6:25:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia criticized the Southern Poverty Law Center for falsely labeling the Alliance Defending Freedom as a “hate group.”

“When an organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center labels a mainstream religious liberty advocate like the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) as a ‘hate group’, it’s simply betraying its own bitter contempt for the people and convictions the ADF defends,” Chaput wrote in the his weekly column, which was posted on the website of the Archdiocese of Philadlephia.

“So yes,” Chaput wrote, “hate has a home here alright: not just among white nationalists, immigrant-haters and neo-Nazis, as loathsome as their ideas are, but also among the ‘progressive’ and educated elites who have the power to insulate themselves from the consequences of their own delusions and bigotries.”

The Alliance Defending Freedom is a non-profit legal organization dedicated to “advocating for religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled the ADF an “anti-LBGT hate group.” …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: adf; chaput; homosexualagenda; splc

1 posted on 08/25/2017 6:25:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The archbishop will probably receive a reprimand. The liberal groups are above reproach.


2 posted on 08/25/2017 6:32:46 PM PDT by wastedyears (Iron Maiden can't be fought)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s the biggest liberal tactic right now. To portray any disagreement with them as naziism and white supremacy.

If they succeed, free speech will no longer exist, and the left will have absolute and unopposed total control over everything.


3 posted on 08/25/2017 6:40:54 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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To: Olog-hai

Notice how the SPLC gives Islam a pass, even though it qualifies as a hate group under nearly all their criterion.


4 posted on 08/25/2017 6:43:13 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals are pulling jenga pieces out of western civilization, how long before it all falls?)
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To: wastedyears

But not from Pope Francis. The Devil owns SPLC.


5 posted on 08/25/2017 6:56:22 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: fatima

FYI. But I guess you will hear about this if you still live in Pennsylvania...


6 posted on 08/25/2017 6:57:14 PM PDT by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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To: Olog-hai

The SPLC is nothing more than a money scam. Its website is also a scam in not listing several founders and others. Read this article among others at Powerline:http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/03/charles-murray-edits-the-splc.php Funny it does not list itself as a hate group because that is what it is, second only to its money collecting scam.
They should be sued out of existence, and the Alliance Defending Freedom is one group among many that should do it.


7 posted on 08/25/2017 7:08:17 PM PDT by Fungi (90 percent of all soil biomass is a fungus. Fungi rule the world.)
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To: Olog-hai
I thank God for men like Archbishop Chaput!



"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

8 posted on 08/25/2017 7:20:50 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (FMF Corpsman - Lima 3/5 RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: topher

Nice to see you back ((((Hugs)))) Chaput talks out of Both sides of his mouth and goes on and on and on.He is closing a heathy Parish in Bucks County to pay off Pedophilia debts.


9 posted on 08/25/2017 8:19:07 PM PDT by fatima (Free Hugs Today :))
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To: Cubs Fan

“That’s the biggest liberal tactic right now. To portray any disagreement with them as naziism and white supremacy.”

At least Chaput has some protection from that since he’s an American Indian. He’s not white.


10 posted on 08/25/2017 8:45:50 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Olog-hai

Chaput never fails to blame Trump. Which he did in this column.

He repeats the lie that Trump is a racist BEFORE criticizing the SPLC.

Chaput is NOT our friend. He is an open-borders fanatic, like all the bishops (those who open their mouths).


11 posted on 08/26/2017 9:21:47 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Arthur McGowan

I noticed that further down the article. This is what he gets for trying to play nice with the left.


12 posted on 08/26/2017 9:23:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ConorMacNessa

Baloney. Chaput ALWAYS smears Trump before he says anything valid.

Chaput is NOT our friend and DOES NOT have a spine.

He says in this column that Trump is to blame for Charlottesville.


13 posted on 08/26/2017 9:23:31 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Arthur McGowan
I am surprised, and disappointed, to hear that. I will do more research before commenting again.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

14 posted on 08/26/2017 6:18:45 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (FMF Corpsman - Lima 3/5 RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: ConorMacNessa

http://catholicphilly.com/2016/08/think-tank/archbishop-chaput-column/some-personal-thoughts-on-the-months-ahead/

Check this out. Can’t decide between a pro-life candidate and an abortion fanatic. And dislikes them for having money.


15 posted on 08/26/2017 7:50:28 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Arthur McGowan
Thanks for the link, FRiend - I'll take a look at it in the morning.

"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

16 posted on 08/26/2017 8:00:51 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (FMF Corpsman - Lima 3/5 RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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