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This new Southern Poverty Law Center report exposes the bizarre world of gay-to-straight conversion therapy and the practitioners who promote widely discredited notions that endanger and stigmatize the LGBT community.
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This is a report about junk science and some of the people who propagate it. It is not about silly, perhaps amusing theories about ESP or life on the moon or even purported miracle cures for cancer. The 鈥渟cience鈥� examined here actively harms people, leading with grim regularity to suicide, depression and an array of self-destructive behaviors. It demeans, defames and defrauds human beings, typically at their most vulnerable moments. And, as if that weren鈥檛 enough, it regularly lays the blame for the alleged malady of homosexuality at the feet of gay people鈥檚 parents, despite the fact that they are wholly innocent.
Hatewatch
The Council for National Policy, a highly secretive group, is a key venue where mainstream conservatives and extremists mix.
Hatewatch
Jeffrey Lord's bizarre assertion on CNN in defense of Donald Trump is just the latest iteration of up-is-down historical balderdash from conservatives.
Intelligence Report
Anyone who read the newspapers last year knows that 2015 saw some horrific political violence.聽
Intelligence Report
A dozen years after the death of its founder, the remnants of the once-infamous Aryan Nations have just about disappeared.
Intelligence Report
The number of hate and antigovernment 鈥楶atriot鈥� groups grew last year, and terrorist attacks and radical plots proliferated.
Features and Stories
The number of extremist groups operating in the United States grew in 2015 鈥� a year awash in deadly extremist violence and hateful rhetoric from mainstream political figures, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 annual census of hate groups and other extremist organizations.
Hatewatch
The Aryan Nations -- once the best-known white supremacy group in the country 鈥� has all but faded into racist history as 2015 draws to a close.
Hatewatch
Retaliatory threats and attacks follow terrorist couple鈥檚 murder spree, encouraged by bigoted remarks from politicians and pundits.
