The Department of Defense (DOD) may be relying on a leftwing,
anti-Christian civil rights outfit linked to domestic terrorism for
training materials and a coalition of conservative groups is asking
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to investigate.
The radical nonprofit, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), providing
the material labels conservatives who disagree with it on social issues
hateful. In fact, its website features conservative organizations on a
catalogue of “hate groups.” The
hate catalogue made headlines last year when a domestic terrorist who
carried out a politically-motivated shooting at a Christian
organization, the Family Research Council (FRC), admitted he got his
target list from the SPLC.
The shooter, Floyd Lee Corkins, stormed into the FRC’s Washington
D.C. headquarters with the intention of killing as many employees as
possible, according to a news report that
cites legal documents. He shot an unarmed security guard at the FRC
before the guard subdued him. Corkins pleaded guilty to three felonies,
including committing an act of terrorism, and was sentenced to 25 years.
It may seem unfathomable that the U.S. government would use training
materials provided by an organization like the SPLC, though records
obtained by Judicial Watch earlier this year show the group is quite
influential in the Obama administration. In fact, the files obtained by
JW from the Obama Justice Department reveal that SPLC co-founder Morris
Dees, conducted a “Diversity Training Event” for the agency.
Incredibly, the SPLC is also providing our military with supplies and
briefings, according to various reports of training incidents in which
Army instructors relied on the group’s anti-Christian materials. This
evidently led Army Secretary John McHugh to issue an order a few months
ago to “cease” the SPCL’s anti-Christian briefings in that branch of the
military. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) followed by
declining to endorse the SPLC as a source.
But it appears that other branches of the U.S. military continue to use SPLC training materials and briefings. Led by the FRC, a coalition of conservative groups—including Judicial Watch— are asking Hagel to end the practice. In a letter
to the Defense Secretary, the groups ask that installations stop
relying on the SPLC and other non-governmental sources as approved
resources for equal opportunity training.
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