IT'S ON: Christian Group Sues SPLC and Amazon Over 'Hate Group' Designation
By
Tyler O'Neil
August 23, 2017
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.
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