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It鈥檚 been a rocky year so far for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation鈥檚 leading opponent of same-sex marriage.
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For seven years, Robert Killian posed as a neo-Nazi biker named 鈥淒oc,鈥� working his way slowly into the inner sanctum of violent white supremacists as part of a wide-ranging undercover investigation in central Florida.
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Elements of the anti-gay right have searched long and hard for logic to make condemnation of homosexuality resonate: Gay men are pedophiles, homosexuality causes God to send hurricanes to Florida and kill off blackbirds in Arkansas, and, perhaps most silly, the theory that an intricate LGBT plot 鈥� the so-called 鈥渞adical homosexual agenda鈥� 鈥� is on the verge of gutting Western civilization.
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In the end, it came down in line with prior precedent. The Supreme Court, ruling in late June on the Arizona law that set off a tsunami of ugly legislation aimed at undocumented immigrants, affirmed decades of settled law, saying the federal government 鈥� not states or cities 鈥� has the right to control immigration policy.
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The National Alliance was once the most important hate group in America. Now, 10 years after the death of its founder William Pierce, the once-pow- erful Alliance has been reduced to nearly complete irrelevance, although that hasn鈥檛 stopped its recent recruits from engaging in at least a dozen mur- ders and a range of other crimes.
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For years, an extreme-right online 鈥渘ews company鈥� called WorldNetDaily has been pumping out staggering vol- umes of baseless conspiracy theories, end-of-the-world predictions, and 鈥渂irther鈥� attacks on President Obama. But its truly defining moment may have come with the fairy-tale claim that soy- beans cause homosexuality.
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The case of Paul Pantone, an Oklahoman who says he鈥檚 invented a contraption that will run on virtually any liquid, illustrates the link between defiers of conventional scientific wisdom and radical rightists who violently distrust the government. In fact, Pantone鈥檚 alleged ties to radicals have both neighbors and law enforcement worried.
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Detectives Kory Flowers and Rob Finch of the Greensboro, N.C., Police Intelligence Squad were both involved in tracking white supremacists when, a couple of years ago, a new threat started to show up on their radar.
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After years defending itself from allegations that it pays academic racists for their writings, the National Review in early April fired two prominent contributors.
