Southern Poverty Law Center
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| 2024 | SPLC added two anti-transgender organizations, Genspect and Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine (SEGM), to its hate groups list. |
| June 2022 | Pastor Dillon Awes delivered a hate sermon openly calling for the immediate execution of all gay people by gunshot to the back of the head. |
| January 2019 | Pastor Donnie Romero resigned from his position after an internal investigation revealed he had violated church doctrine by hiring prostitutes, cheating on his wife, gambling, and consuming alcohol and drugs. |
| 2018 | Hatewatch published an article detailing Church Militant's anti-LGBTQ agenda, including their advocacy for conversion therapy and criticism of legal actions against conversion therapy organizations. |
| June 2016 | Pastor Donnie Romero gained national attention for publicly celebrating the Pulse nightclub shooting, referring to the murdered LGBT patrons as 'sodomites', 'perverts', and 'pedophiles', and suggesting God should 'finish the job'. |
| 2014 | Southern Poverty Law Center officially designated Pacific Justice Institute as an anti-LGBT hate group due to the organization's persistent anti-LGBT rhetoric propagated by its founder. |
| February 2014 | Southern Poverty Law Center added World Congress of Families to its list of anti-LGBTQ hate groups due to its international campaigns against LGBTQ rights and involvement with restrictive legislation. |
| 2013 | WCF was involved in supporting the Russian LGBT propaganda law, which significantly restricted LGBTQ rights and expression in Russia. |
| 2013 | Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) officially described the Alliance Defending Freedom as a 'virulently anti-gay' organization. |
| January 2013 | Terry Jones and the church burned effigies of President Obama and President Clinton to protest their abortion and pro-LGBT policies, which resulted in Jones being fined by the city of Gainesville for unauthorized burning. |
| 2012 | After President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, Dove World Outreach Center displayed an Obama effigy hanging on their lawn with a rainbow flag, demonstrating their anti-LGBTQ stance. |
| March 2012 | Southern Poverty Law Center adds SaveCalifornia.com to its list of anti-gay hate groups. |
| March 2012 | The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) officially designated Mission: America as an anti-LGBTQ hate group due to its stance on LGBTQ rights. |
| March 2012 | SPLC expanded its anti-LGBTQ hate groups list by adding eleven more organizations, including United Families International, SaveCalifornia.com, and You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International. |
| March 2012 | The Southern Poverty Law Center designated Parents Action League as an anti-gay hate group due to their spread of damaging propaganda about LGBT people. |
| 2011 | The church reported having approximately 40 members, primarily consisting of members of Fred Phelps' large family. |
| 2011 | Thomasson opposes California's FAIR Education Act, describing it as 'Sexual brainwashing' and urging parents to remove children from public schools. |
| January 2011 | According to a profile, Lively claimed to be toning down his anti-gay rhetoric and shifting focus to helping marginalized communities, while maintaining his view that gay people are 'agents of America's moral decline'. |
| 2010 | Parents Action League was founded to protest proposed changes in the Anoka-Hennepin School District 11 policy regarding discussions of LGBTQ issues in classrooms. |
| 2010 | The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) added the Westboro Baptist Church to its list of hate groups, formally recognizing the organization's extreme anti-LGBTQ stance. |
| 2010 | Illinois Family Action, a sister organization to IFI, was founded as a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization in Illinois. |
| November 2010 | Southern Poverty Law Center first designates the Family Research Council (FRC) as a hate group. |
| November 2010 | SPLC added thirteen groups to its anti-LGBTQ hate groups list, including American Family Association, Family Research Council, and others, while stating that gays remain the most targeted minority by hate crimes. |
| November 22 2010 | The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) officially designated Heterosexuals Organized for a Moral Environment (HOME) as an anti-gay hate group due to their propagation of known falsehoods and attacks on gay people. |
| May 2010 | Peter Sprigg publicly suggests repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would encourage molestation of heterosexual service members. |
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