WASHINGTON, June 18, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins released the following statement in
response to the Southern Poverty Law Center's announcement that the
organization had settled a defamation lawsuit for nearly
$3.4 million:
"The Southern Poverty has long been the Left's pit bull ---
resorting to smears and a hate map to advance its liberal political
agenda. But its falsehoods and dangerous tactics have finally
caught up with them -- with the group doling out millions in a
defamation settlement. Even after this massive pay out, the SPLC
continues to sit on hundreds of millions dollars (much of it
offshore) that they use to advance their liberal policy agenda and
their attacks on the opponents. This public acknowledgment of their
defamatory actions leave the media and big business with no excuse
in continuing to use the SPLC as an objective, independent source,"
concluded Perkins.
Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Jerry Boykin,
Family Research Council Executive Vice President added the
following comments:
"This massive settlement validates what we've been saying all
along: the SPLC's illegitimate hate map is motivated by its radical
progressive political agenda. The SPLC is a thoroughly disgraced
organization that seeks to silence its political opponents with
false and defamatory smears that endangers the lives of those
targeted with it.
"In a chilling FBI interrogation video, now-convicted domestic
terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins -- the
man who stormed the Family Research Council's (FRC) headquarters
and shot an employee who later disarmed him -- admitted that he
picked his targets from a map on the Southern Poverty Law Center's
(SPLC) website. Since then, the FBI has removed links to the SPLC
from its 'hate crimes resources' page, the U.S. Army has distanced
themselves from SPLC's materials and now the SPLC has spent
millions to settle a defamation lawsuit," concluded Boykin.
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