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Press Conf.: Black Pastors Confront Southern Poverty Law Center for Smearing as 'Hate Groups' Pro-Family Organizations Opposed to Homosexual Agenda
Contact: Peter LaBarbera: Americans For Truth, 630-546-4439; americansfortruth@gmail.com
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 17, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- A coalition of African American pastors and pro-family Christian and Jewish leaders is holding a press conference at noon tomorrow (the day after Martin Luther King Day) outside the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center -- to protest the SPLC's smearing of pro-family groups that oppose homosexual activism as "hate groups":
Press Conference Details---
Where: Outside the SPLC headquarters, 400 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL
When: Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012, noon, Central Standard Time
Who: Scheduled speakers:
· Peter LaBarbera, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), Chicago, IL (the SPLC has smeared AFTAH as a "hate group");
· Dr. Patrick Wooden, pastor, Upper Room Church of God in Christ (COGIC), Raleigh, NC;
· DL Foster, founder, Gay Christian Movement Watch, Atlanta, GA;
· Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs, Liberty Counsel, Lynchburg, VA;
· Tim Johnson, Fredrick Douglass Foundation, Washington, D.C.;
· Rachel Conner, representing Abiding Truth Ministries (smeared by SPLC as a "hate group")
· Pastor Glen Sawyer, New Mt. Zion Church of God in Christ, Elizabeth City, NC
· Pastor Wil Nichols, Victorious Praise Fellowship COGIC, Durham, NC
· Pastor Jon Robinson, Kingdom C.O.M.E. Ministries, Clairton, PA
· Pastor Kenneth Jefferson, Greater Harvest COGIC
The following pro-family leaders and groups will issue supporting statements:
· Rabbi Yehuda Levin, Rabbinical Alliance of America;
· Laurie Higgins, Illinois Family Institute (smeared as "hate group")
· Arthur Goldberg, author, "Light in the Closet: Torah, Homosexuality, and the Power to Change";
· Linda Harvey, Mission America, Columbus, OH
· Brian Camenker, Mass Resistance, (smeared as "hate group")
Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans For Truth, which is sponsoring the press event, recently interviewed Pastor Wooden, who said that the SPLC's gambit of labeling mainstream pro-family groups that oppose homosexual activism as "hate groups" is seriously damaging the SPLC's credibility. Wooden also debunked the "civil rights" analogy used by "gay" activists, saying it is wrong to compare "my beautiful blackness" with homosexual perversion.
LaBarbera said the SPLC is engaged in a thinly-veiled, one-sided campaign to demonize adherents of traditional Judeo-Christian morality. He noted that despite the considerable hatred and anti-Christian bigotry emanating from homosexual activists (e.g., Dan Savage's vile hate-site, Santorum[dot]com), the SPLC has never labeled a "gay" organization or website as "hateful."
