A recent crime, with a superficial profile that ordinarily would be very appealing to the national press, has been flying below the radar for the last while. Mr. Floyd Corkins, a volunteer at a local LGBT center, walked into a place in Washington D.C. called the Family Research Council and shot a security guard. He was reported to say, "I don't like your politics." The security guard's politics as yet have not been revealed. Why this story, with its obvious connection to isolated terrorism qualities, is not being discussed has not been explained. Perhaps the silence is because the Family Research Center is an obscure group previously known only as branded by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a "hate group."
Who are these people?
The Family Research Center is a nonprofit created by James Dobson, an evangelical Christian, author and psychologist which champions marriage, abstinence for birth control, opposition to abortion and policy opposed to the mainstreaming of homosexuality.
Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit civil rights organization. They are mainly known for their cases against the Klan and Klan-type organizations and have become official advisers to Homeland Security and the FBI. In 2010 the Center designated the Family Research Center as a "Hate Group." We do not know if the Family Research Center called them a "Hate Group" right back.
Here we have two organizations, both nonprofit recipients of tax-free donations and looked up to by their supporters and sympathizers, involved in a Hatfield and McCoy animosity and competition, both with extra-governmental tentacles extending into the hallways of Washington and influencing decisions.
Who are these people, indeed?
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