“No, I don’t hate gay people!” he responds. “I know gay people and I’ve worked with gay people.” The council merely opposed gay marriage, an opinion they shared with Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
One man became so enraged by what the SPLC wrote, he went to the council’s headquarters to kill people. He shot a security guard. “He told the judge that he was there to kill as many of us as possible because we were a ‘hate group,'” says Boykin. The SPLC also smears the Ruth Institute, a Christian group that believes adoption agencies should first try to place children with straight couples.“I like gay people!” she laughs. “I have no problem with gay people! That’s not the issue. … There could be cases where the best person for a particular child would be their Uncle Harry and his boyfriend. … But we owe it to the children to give them the best we can, which generally is a married mother and father.