Southern Poverty Law Center Places Ben Carson On ‘Extremist Watch List’

4:02 PM 02/08/2015

Scott Greer
Associate Editor

Ben Carson is receiving a lot of attention as a potential presidential candidate, but he’s now also getting noticed as an apparent “anti-gay” extremist.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which considers itself a civil rights advocacy group, recently placed the famed neurosurgeon on its “Extremist Watch List” — a list that mainly includes neo-Nazis and other white supremacists.

Carson was included for allegedly being “anti-gay.” The SPLC considers his opposition to gay marriage to be hateful and worthy of inclusion in the list.

The remarks the group cites for determining Carson is an extremist include this line from his book, “America the Beautiful”: “[I]f we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a man and a woman, we will continue to redefine it in any way that we wish, which is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.”

Other evidence for his supposed bigotry towards the LGBT community includes giving a speech at an event hosted by a group that opposes gay marriage.

The SPLC also consider this line in support of a flat tax rate as radically outside the mainstream: “What we need to do is come up with something simple. And when I pick up by Bible, you know what I see? I see the first individual in the universe, God, and he’s given us a system. It’s called a tithe.”

They considered this as a statement “endorsing biblical economic practices for 21st century America.”

Read more: The Daily Caller

Amazing.

The SPLC has had major input to the DHS's list of potential domestic terrorists and their characteristics. The CEO of SPLC served on the Homeland Security Advisory Council that created the following 2010 report on 'Countering Violent Extremism:
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac...mmendations.pdf


In 2014:
DHS once more relying on SPLC-inspired conflation in domestic threat report
http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-once...c-threat-report

More:
Ben Carson fires back after called a 'hater'

Dr. Ben Carson, the highly acclaimed brain surgeon and potential presidential candidate, is warning that America is approaching a point where “wrong is called right and right is called wrong.”

Carson was responding to the decision by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a well-funded civil-rights law firm known for its guilt-by-association tactics, to add him to its “extremist watch list.”

Carson said Monday the designation flips values upside down.

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