{"id":64303,"date":"2017-08-28T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64303"},"modified":"2017-08-27T13:05:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T18:05:36","slug":"doing-the-legal-rain-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64303","title":{"rendered":"Doing The Legal Rain Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

For years, the “Southern Poverty Law Center” has been slandering perfectly legitimate conservative organizations, smearing them as “hate groups”.<\/p>\n

The practice hit home a few years back, when they called the “Taxpayers League of Minnesota” a “hate group”. Their “hate” was, apparently, manifested by getting lawmakers to pledge not to raise taxes – because taxes, apparently, are love.<\/p>\n

Most slandered people can’t fight back, as I found out myself a few years back; it’s expensive, courts err very sharply on the side of free speech (which is a good thing in the great scheme of things, of course), and even if you “win” in court, the judge can<\/i> rule that a retraction and apology will suffice (as I myself was told in 2012 by a lawyer, who told me I had a very strong defamation case against an online stalker – provided I came up with a $20K retainer and accepted the fact that there was a very strong chance of a legal victory with no financial payback whatsoever). \u00a0B<\/p>\n

But with all that aside, it’s good to see someone\u00a0\u00a0taking it to the fake watchdog group<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

The SPLC has labeled DJKM an “anti-LGBT hate group” for its opposition to same-sex marriage and transgenderism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m hoping Kennedy wins and wins huge.<\/p>\n

If I can find a place to donate to the legal fund, I’ll post it after I donate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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