Christian Group Sues SPLC and Amazon Over 'Hate Group' Designation

Christian Group Sues SPLC and Amazon Over 'Hate Group' Designation
On Tuesday, D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJKM) filed a lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the charity navigation organization GuideStar, and Amazon for defamation, religious discrimination, and trafficking in falsehood. The SPLC listed DJKM as a "hate group," while GuideStar also categorized it in those terms, and Amazon kept the ministry off of its charity donation program, Amazon Smile.

"We embarked today on a journey to right a terrible wrong," Dr. Frank Wright, president and CEO at DJKM, said in a statement Tuesday. "Those who knowingly label Christian ministries as 'hate' groups, solely for subscribing to the historic Christian faith, are either woefully uninformed or willfully deceitful. In the case of the Southern Poverty Law Center, our lawsuit alleges the latter."

The SPLC has labeled DJKM an "anti-LGBT hate group" for its opposition to same-sex marriage and transgenderism. "These false and illegal characterizations have a chilling effect on the free exercise of religion and on religious free speech for all people of faith," Wright declared.

"After having given the SPLC an opportunity to retract, we have undertaken this legal action, seeking a trial by a jury of our peers, to preserve our own rights under the law and to defend the religious free speech rights of all Americans," the DJKM president concluded.

The lawsuit laid out charges against the SPLC, GuideStar, and Amazon. "SPLC acted knowingly, intentionally, and with actual malice in publishing the Hate Map that included the Ministry and in publishing the SPLC Transmissions to GuideStar that included the ministry," the suit alleged. "SPLC's conduct in making these publications was beyond the reckless disregard for the truth standard required by Alabama law for punitive damages."

The suit claimed that "the Ministry suffered special damages in its exclusion from the AmazonSmile program as a result of SPLC's publication of the Hate Map and the SPLC Transmissions."

Specifically, DJKM brought the suit under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for religious discrimination, under the Lanham Act for trafficking in false or misleading descriptions of the services offered under the ministry's trademarked name, and for defamation under Alabama common law arising from "the publication and distribution of information that libels the Ministry's reputation and subjects the Ministry to disgrace, ridicule, odium, and contempt in the estimation of the public."

The lawsuit explained why the "hate" labeling was so malicious. DJKM's vision statement runs as follows: "The corporation seeks to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the supremacy of His Lordship, and a biblically informed view of the world, using all available media, so that Jesus Christ would be known throughout all of the Earth and that everywhere He might be trusted, loved, and served."

"Nowhere in the purpose or action of the Ministry is there HATE or any room for HATE," the lawsuit explained. Even so, it was denied participation in the AmazonSmile program on the grounds of SPLC's libel.

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I hope this is the start of a long series of white/christian/conservative/etc groups striking back at the (((SPLC))).

needs to be converted to a class action lawsuit

THIS
Look on the SPLC list of "hate groups", find the Christian ones and phone them about this
A class action lawsuit is the legal equivalent of a nuclear bomb. Rarely used but if successful it can utterly destroy them.

And would be dismissed by literally any ✡judge✡, of which there are a majority.

>you will never lend your energy to the spirit bomb that destroys the (((SPLC)))

This is actually a great idea user, we could find a great deal of libeled Christain organizations to dogpile with.
Any suggestions on where to start?

Fuck off defeatist.

Checked.

Noticed there's a lot of 'radical traditionalist Catholics' on the list in my state. Think they'd be interested?

That's a thought. Catholics have been pretty good with legal fights against degeneracy, leading the fight against porn for example, in the past though the whole church establishment seems kinda crooked right now.

Now we're talking. There are a lot of pissed off local Protestant groups who hate LBGT shit, and the Catholic Church was the last serious contender holding the line against Cultural Marxism in America until Vatican II functionally castrated most of their official actions.

Bringing together separatist trad-Caths and and grassroots Protestantism to fight the SPLC and push back against white identity vectors being labeled as "hate" is a solid plan. As long as we still have the Constitution, we should be using it to bludgeon our enemies as much as possible. Labeling white churches and traditional Christianity "hate" and suppressing them along that vector is an infringement of religious freedom. If we can use this to hurt the SPLC in any way, even if the odds of success are low, it's still worth trying.

Great post. There is a huge opportunity here and if we can just start the fire there are a lot of other leader-type people within these churches who can and will let it build into an inferno. If some good anons can compile a list and start mailing them it will be great. If we can get even 10-50 people to just send e/mails to them then they will take notice.

Do be aware that this thread WILL be shilled, WILL descend into religious D&C and WILL be anchored/deleted. Act fast while the shills are still gloating over their supposed 'victories' in other areas that took place this weekend. Godspeed Anons.

SCOTUS isn't as kosher as you think shill.

Then we just spread more redpills on (((our greatest ally))).

Communism shat on christianity ever since its inception.

Now it's time for us to turn the tables on them✡.

splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/groups

where can I find this map? i want to join my local hate group

Uniting Christian groups against the left's political organizations would be great.

On their fucking website.

This is awesome. Props to Dr. James Kennedy and that congregation. God Bless you all, DJames

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I literally plugged Southern Poverty Law Center into my search engine and the map was the third or fourth result.

Get you some fucking agency, son.

I'm actually surprised there's a bunch of Black Israelite groups near me. I'm not sure what's funnier, that they're within driving distance of me, or that the SPLC considers them "hate groups."

Oh how the golem turns on it's master. I guess they don't like monkeys appropriating the identity of The Chosen. Though I do wonder why the new Black Panthers are a hate group by their standards. What did the BPs do, support Palestine or something?

That's true, and now is the time to strike with the media going full-tilt on the tranny agenda. Small, local Christian groups don't keep up with kike degeneracy as obsessively as Holla Forums does. Back when it was discovered that the Nickelodean show "Bella and the Bulldogs" was thinly-veiled racial cuckold fetish porn, I contacted a bunch of Christian media watchdogs about it like the American Family Association and Family Research Council. I got emails back saying they were interested and wanting to know more. Reaching out to these groups is definitely worth our time.

I just looked up my local Radical Traditionalist Catholics on the SPLC's hate map to encourage them to sue, and I found out they're already on it as of last week:

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WEW

it's a step in the right direction. Christcuck normalfags opposing censorship can only work to our advantage.

Don't forget about Kent Hovind. Whether people agree with his views or not, the man did jail time because he believed in something and was making a mockery out of people debating him within the scientific community. He paid volunteers as a favour and was then indicted on charges of fraud. The man stayed true to himself and his belief and got attacked by a muslim in jail. He was unjustly locked up and eventually released, coming out with a new outlook on life and in support of a lashing or a death penalty for offendors. Coincidentally did a lot of good for prisoners as well.

Thought I'd add it as another example of targeting specific. Ignore all organizations that are supposedly .government compatible. I believe it's a clause which means they are tax exempt if they choose not to criticize the government. aka - definition of the christcuck memes and not in the same calibre as above or Anderson, Grund, Manning, etc. Those are not churches but rather businesses.

Welcome to the club, Christcucks.

Welcome to reported, intl.

Thanks. Funny, I thought they had died by now. They're like hillary dogham clinton. clawing for attention like the whores they are.

Its about time these christcucks started growing a backbone. They've been taking abuse and apologizing for decades.

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They're running.

MAKE CHRISTIANITY GREAT AGAIN

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Isn't there some sort of illegal behavior in this? If not any time a divorce is brought against a man he could immediately move all assets off-shore and disappear no?