Alabama Chief Justice to Probate Judges: Don’t Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
Advocates ‘tolerance’ when added to ‘extremist-watch list’
Feb 9, 2015
Dr. Ben Carson, the highly acclaimed brain surgeon and potential presidential candidate, is warning that America is approaching a point where “wrong is called right and right is called wrong.”
Carson was responding to the decision by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a well-funded civil-rights law firm known for its guilt-by-association tactics, to add him to its “extremist watch list.”
Carson said Monday the designation flips values upside down.
“When embracing traditional Christian values is equated to hatred, we are approaching the stage where wrong is called right and right is called wrong,” he said. “It is important for us to once again advocate true tolerance.
“That means being respectful of those with whom we disagree and allowing people to live according to their values without harassment. It is nothing but projectionism when some groups label those who disagree with them as haters.”
The “wrong is right” theme comes from the book of Isaiah: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.”
The Pulpit Commentary notes: “There are persons who gloss over evil deeds and evil habits by fair-sounding names, who call cowardice caution, and rashness courage, niggardliness thrift, and wasteful profusion generosity. The same men are apt also to call good evil; they brand prudence with the name of cunning, call meekness want of proper spirit, sincerity rudeness, and firmness obstinacy.
“This deadness to moral distinctions is the sign of deep moral corruption.”
WND reported SPLC’s reasoning was that Carson is “against” same-sex “marriage.”
The SPLC website states: “Ben Carson rapidly ascended as a far-right political star after publicly scolding President Obama, whom he sat a few feet away from, at a National Prayer Breakfast in February 2013. Carson’s reproach of Obama for his health care and tax policies went viral, unleashing a flood of adulation from right-wing media and hate groups.”
SPLC labels Carson “anti-gay” because of his statements about marriage.
The group cited this quote: “Marriage is between a man and a woman. It’s a well-established pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA [North American Man/Boy Association, a group advocating pedophilia], be they people who believe in bestiality – it doesn’t matter what they are, they don’t get to change the definition.”
In an interview with Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel March 26, 2013, Carson also said “if we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”
SPLC itself has been accused of being a hate group. It was one of several groups identified by a domestic terrorist as having inspired his attempt to murder Christians at the Family Research Council in a foiled armed attack in 2012.
Floyd Lee Corkin is serving a 25-year prison sentence for the attack that resulted in the wounding of an FRC security guard. A judge determined that it was an act of domestic terrorism after the shooter admitted he used SPLC’s hate map to identify FRC as a target. Corkins said his plan was to kill as many people at FRC as he could.
In 2012, a team of Christian activists, black pastors and Orthodox Jews called on SPLC, which bills itself as an organization “dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry,” to speak out against hate.
“The SPLC has moved from monitoring actual hate groups like the KKK and Neo Nazis to slandering mainstream Christian organizations with that very same ‘hate group’ label,” said Matt Barber, then vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, who attended a news conference held outside the group’s headquarters in Alabama. “By extension, the SPLC is smearing billions of Christians and Jews worldwide as ‘haters,’ simply because they embrace the traditional Judeo-Christian sexual ethic.”
Former Congressman Tom Tancredo has called SPLC a “dishonest left-wing outfit” whose officials “are extremists themselves.”
WND reported the FBI was utilizing SPLC as a “resource” on its website regarding hate crimes but then scrubbed it from the site.
It was at the Family Research Council in Washington that Corkins staged his attack on Christians. He later told investigators how he selected FRC as his target: “It was a, uh, Southern Poverty Law, lists, uh, anti-gay groups. I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website, stuff like that.”
FRC said that when Corkins later pleaded guilty to a charge of domestic terrorism, SPLC “was connected in federal court in this first domestic terrorism conviction in Washington, D.C., under the post 9/11 law.”
“Floyd Corkins admitted his intention to ‘kill the people in the building and then smear a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their face,’” FRC explained. “The Southern Poverty Law Center has thus far refused to remove Family Research Council as a ‘hate group’ from its target map.”
Perkins said SPLC’s statements about FRC “gave license” to Corkins to attack.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center can no longer say that it is not a source for those bent on committing acts of violence,” Perkins said.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/ben-carson-fires-back-after-called-a-hater/
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FBI scrubs key ‘hate-crime’ partnership
Group linked to domestic terror through court case
03/26/2014 by Bob Unruh
The FBI has scrubbed its web listing for hate-crime “resources” of a reference to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was fingered by confessed domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins II as the source of his information when he planned to murder staff members at a Christian organization.
WND reported late last year that the FBI was utilizing the SPLC as a “resource” on its web page regarding hate crimes, but the current page has eliminated the organization that came to the attention of authorities when Corkins attempted a mass murder at the Washington offices of Family Research Council.
Corkins, a homosexual activist, told investigators the SPLC was the source of his information when he wanted to target Christians. The SPLC publicly had labeled the FRC a “hate group” because of its biblical position on homosexuality.
After Corkins’ confession, he was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Richard W. Roberts to 25 years in prison because, on Aug. 15, 2012, he walked into FRC headquarters and started to shoot with the intention of killing “as many people as I could.”
He managed to shoot and injure just one person, facilities manager Leo Johnson, who is credited with heroically stopping the attack.
Corkins admitted he picked FRC because the organization was listed as an “anti-gay” hate group by the SPLC on its website.
FRC promotes traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs about the family and homosexuality, but SPLC claims the organization’s “real specialty is defaming gays and lesbians.”
Corkins, a former volunteer at an LGBT community center, pleaded guilty to terrorism.
The Washington Examiner pointed out the unannounced change, calling the move a “significant rejection of the influential legal group.”
“The webpage scrubbing, which also included eliminating the Anti-Defamation League, was not announced and came in the last month after 15 family groups pressed Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director James Comey to stop endorsing a group – SPLC – that inspired a recent case of domestic terrorism at the Family Research Council,” the Examiner reported.
“We commend the FBI for removing website links to the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that not only dispenses erroneous data but has been linked to domestic terrorism in federal court. We hope this means the FBI leadership will avoid any kind of partnership with the SPLC,” Tony Perkins, FRC president, told Paul Dedard at the Washington Examiner.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center’s mission to push anti-Christian propaganda is inconsistent with the mission of both the military and the FBI, which is to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States,” he added.
“Crimes of hatred and prejudice – from lynchings to cross burnings to vandalism of synagogues – are a sad fact of American history, but the term ‘hate crime’ did not enter the nation’s vocabulary until the 1980s, when emerging hate groups like the Skinheads launched a wave of bias-related crime. The FBI began investigating what we now call hate crimes as far back as World War I, when the Ku Klux Klan first attracted our attention. Today, we remain dedicated to working with state and local partners to prevent the crimes and to bring to justice those who commit them,” the FBI states on its website.
Where, under the headline “resources,” the SPLC previously was listed, the list now includes “Shepard/Byrd Act Brochure, Justice Department Civil Rights Division, Justice Department Community Relations Service and Federal Civil Rights Statutes.
A video shows Corkins entered the FRC building and approached Johnson, and he then leaned over to place his backpack on the floor. When he straightened up, Corkins pointed a semi-automatic handgun directly at Johnson and fired. Despite being wounded in the arm, Johnson was able to subdue Corkins after a brief struggle.
Prosecutors said Johnson saved his own life, and probably many others, only because he immediately sensed something was wrong with Corkins. That hunch caused Johnson to get up from behind his desk, putting him in position to tackle the shooter soon after he drew his gun.
Prosecutors said Johnson has endured a long and slow recovery, including surgery on his arm, which will never be fully functioning again, and treatment for blood clots.
Johnson also told his shooter in court papers, “If you believe in God you should pray to him everyday because not only did God save my life that day, he saved yours, too.”
Johnson was armed with a gun the day of the attack but told the court God told him not to shoot.
It was during an interview with the FBI that Corkins fingered the SPLC.
Asked by the FBI how he picked FRC to attack, Corkins stated, “It was a, uh, Southern Poverty Law, lists, uh, anti-gay groups. I found them online. I did a little bit of research, went to the website, stuff like that.”
FRC said that when Corkins later pleaded guilty to a charge of domestic terrorism, SPLC “was connected in federal court in this first domestic terrorism conviction in Washington, D.C., under the post 9/11 law.”
“Floyd Corkins admitted his intention to ‘kill the people in the building and then smear a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their face,’” FRC explained. “The Southern Poverty Law Center has thus far refused to remove Family Research Council as a ‘hate group’ from its target map.”
Lt. General Jerry Boykin (Ret.) Boykin, on the staff of the FRC, had suggested he would like the U.S. government and its agencies to discontinue using, citing or working with the SPLC. And he said the media should stop citing SPLC.
He continued: “We want the U.S. government to stop supporting … and using the SPLC. They’re now connected to domestic terrorism.”
Perkins previously said that the SPLC’s statements about the FRC “gave license” to Corkins to attack.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center can no longer say that it is not a source for those bent on committing acts of violence,” Perkins said at the time.
SPLC – a left-wing, nonprofit organization that describes itself as dedicated to fighting “bigotry” and monitoring domestic “hate groups” – keeps an eagle eye on tea-party, patriot, Christian, gun-rights and conservative organizations, often insisting they are fueled by racism and hatred, rather than politics or policy.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/fbi-scrubs-key-hate-crime-partnership/
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Alabama Chief Justice to Probate Judges: Don’t Issue Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
2.9.2015 by Sarah Fisher
The Chief Justice of Alabama, Roy Moore, sent a directive to the probate judges in Alabama ordering them not to issue same-sex marriage licenses when the courts open on Monday morning. “Moore wrote that the judges weren’t bound by a federal judge’s ruling Jan. 23 that the marriage ban was unconstitutional.”
“Effective immediately, no probate judge of the state of Alabama nor any agent or employee of any Alabama probate judge shall issue or recognize a marriage license that is inconsistent with (the Alabama Constitution),” Moore wrote.
The ACLU called the move “grandstanding.”
“We will see marriage equality in Alabama tomorrow. I don’t think the probate judges in Alabama are going to defy a federal court judge’s order,” Watson said late Sunday.
A U.S. District Judge, Callie Granade ruled the state marriage ban was unconstitutional and in a clarifying order stated that probate judges have a legal duty under the constitution to issue the licenses.
One couple has already showed up outside the Montgomery court house and more are expected.
More than 100 people attended a “Sanctity of Marriage” rally at the Alabama Capitol on Saturday. With the sign “One Man One Woman” behind them, speakers said they stood with the biblical definition of marriage and the 80 percent of voters who approved Alabama’s gay marriage ban in 2006.
A group of marriage rights supporters gathered across the street waving signs reading, “Y’all means all” and singing a version of “Going to the Chapel,” but changing the word chapel to courthouse.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/alabama-chief-justice-probate-judges-dont-issue-same-sex-marriage-licenses
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