This is a list of notable active groups designated as hate groups by the
Southern Poverty Law Center and the
Anti-Defamation League, two U.S.-based organizations that monitor intolerance and hate group activity. Inclusion on this list does not necessarily mean that a group or its members have committed illegal activity.
The SPLC lists Abiding Truth Ministries among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's status as "a launching pad for an international anti-gay campaign" whose scope includes
Eastern Europe and Uganda, including the
Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which prescribes the death penalty for "repeat offenders." Founder
Scott Lively is the author of
a book which claims that "the
Nazi Party was entirely controlled by militaristic homosexuals."[2]
American Family Association
The SPLC lists the American Family Association among its Anti-Gay hate groups. Founder
Bryan Fischer has claimed that homosexuality, and gay people serving in the military, caused the
Holocaust. He has also advocated government discrimination against
Muslims and likened Islam to the Ku Klux Klan.[2]
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality
The SPLC lists Americans for Truth About Homosexuality among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's promotion of "utterly discredited" research claiming that gay people have shorter lifespans, its statement that homosexuality is akin to drug abuse and that gays are trying to take away religious people's free speech, and its false claim that there is "a disproportionate incidence of pedophilia" among gay men.[2]
American Vision
The SPLC lists American Vision among its Anti-Gay hate groups. The group advocates the death penalty for gay people as part of a broader plan for a Christian theocratic government.[2]
Catholic Apologetics International
The SPLC lists Catholic Apologetics International among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's vocal
antisemitism and propagation of
conspiracy theories, including founder
Robert Sungenis's writings about how the
anti-Christ will be Jewish and how Jews will bring about the rule of
Satan.[49]
Catholic Family News
The SPLC lists Catholic Family News among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the publisher's vocal antisemitism and propagation of
conspiracy theories, including the
Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory and the claim that Judaism is "part of the Kingdom of Satan."[49]
Culture Wars/Fidelity Press
The SPLC lists Culture Wars/Fidelity Press among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the publisher's vocal antisemitism and focus on "the alleged evils of the Jews": one Culture Wars cover story was "The Judaism of Hitler," and founder E. Michael Jones claims that the Holocaust was "a reaction to Jewish Messianism (in the form of Bolshevism)."[49]
Chalcedon Foundation
The SPLC lists the Chalcedon Foundation among its Anti-Gay hate groups. The group advocates the death penalty for gay people as part of a broader plan for a Christian theocratic government. Its founder,
R.J. Rushdoony, also opposed interracial marriage and racial integration, saying that the Bible "recognizes that some people are by nature slaves," and
denied the Holocaust.[2]
Dove World Outreach Center
The SPLC lists the Dove World Outreach Center among its General Hate hate groups.[4] It cites the group's "increasingly vicious attacks on gays and Muslims," including leader Terry Jones's
plan to burn the Qur'an.[2]
Family Research Council
The SPLC lists the Family Research Council among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's status as a "font of anti-gay propaganda" due to its continual false claims that gay people are more likely to abuse children and that the gay rights movement aims to promote pedophilia. The group's active and influential participation in campaigns against LGBT rights legislation, and its promotion of scientifically questionable
conversion therapy, are also factors.[50]
Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints
The SPLC lists the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints among its General Hate hate groups.[4] It describes the group as a "white supremacist, homophobic, antigovernment, totalitarian cult," noting for example that members view the
Mormon church's decision to ordain black priests as its "ultimate spiritual downfall" and that leader
Warren Jeffs has said that the devil puts evil on earth via black people.[51]
Family Research Institute
The SPLC lists the Family Research Institute among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's promotion of "completely discredited junk science pushed out by
a man who has been condemned by three professional organizations," including the claim that gay people abuse children at far higher rates than straight people, that gay people have shorter lifespans, and that the gay rights movement promotes pedophilia and rape.[2]
Legion of St. Louis and IHS Press
The SPLC lists the Legion of St. Louis and IHS Press among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It describes them as "two of the most nakedly anti-Semitic organizations in the entire radical traditionalist Catholic pantheon." The Legion of St. Louis urges Catholics to form "militant" communities to wage "real ideological and political war" against "Judeo-Masonic" elements in society, and blames the
9/11 attacks on Jews and Masons.[49]
MassResistance
The SPLC lists MassResistance among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's opposition to anti-bullying programs and its propagation of false claims linking homosexuality and pedophilia. The group's leader,
Brian Camenker, claims that
no gay people died in the Holocaust and that gay rights activists promote
bestiality.[2]
Nation of Islam
The SPLC lists the Nation of Islam as a Black Separatist hate group.[38] It cites the group's "long history of racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric that escalated dramatically with
Louis Farrakhan's coup," as well as lesser amounts of homophobia and anti-Catholic sentiment. It also quotes both Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s own 1959 critical description of the NOI as "a hate group arising in our midst that would preach the doctrine of black supremacy," and former NOI preacher
Malcolm X's own denunciation of the "sickness and madness" of NOI racism.[52].
The ADL classifies the NOI as a hate group for its racist and antisemitic rhetoric, including conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the media and Farrakhan's blaming of Jews for the African slave trade.[53]
Remnant Press
The SPLC lists Remnant Press among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's antisemitism, including a claim that Anti-Defamation League tours of the
United States Holocaust Museum were meant to "indoctrinate Catholic educators into the 'holocaust religion'" and demands that Jews convert to Christianity.[49]
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The SPLC lists Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's vocal antisemitism: members believe that Jewish people, whom one leader described as "the perpetual enemy of Christ," will be the first to welcome the anti-Christ and will begin "the most savage persecution of the Church in the history of the world," and that the
Virgin Mary threatened Jews with "blood and terror if it's required."[49]
St. Michael's Parish/Mount Saint Michael
The SPLC lists St. Michael's Parish/Mount Saint Michael among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's propagation of antisemitic conspiracy theories, including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Jews' supposed desire to establish a
one-world government.[49]
Traditional Values Coalition
The SPLC lists the Traditional Values Coalition among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's propagation of the false claims that gay people molest children at "epidemic rates" and that the gay rights movement aims to destroy the concept of marriage and promote pedophilia. Founder
Louis P. Sheldon has advocated forcing people with AIDS into "
cities of refuge."[2]
This is a list of notable active groups designated as hate groups by the
Southern Poverty Law Center and the
Anti-Defamation League, two U.S.-based organizations that monitor intolerance and hate group activity. Inclusion on this list does not necessarily mean that a group or its members have committed illegal activity.
The SPLC lists Abiding Truth Ministries among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's status as "a launching pad for an international anti-gay campaign" whose scope includes
Eastern Europe and Uganda, including the
Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, which prescribes the death penalty for "repeat offenders." Founder
Scott Lively is the author of
a book which claims that "the
Nazi Party was entirely controlled by militaristic homosexuals."[2]
American Family Association
The SPLC lists the American Family Association among its Anti-Gay hate groups. Founder
Bryan Fischer has claimed that homosexuality, and gay people serving in the military, caused the
Holocaust. He has also advocated government discrimination against
Muslims and likened Islam to the Ku Klux Klan.[2]
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality
The SPLC lists Americans for Truth About Homosexuality among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's promotion of "utterly discredited" research claiming that gay people have shorter lifespans, its statement that homosexuality is akin to drug abuse and that gays are trying to take away religious people's free speech, and its false claim that there is "a disproportionate incidence of pedophilia" among gay men.[2]
American Vision
The SPLC lists American Vision among its Anti-Gay hate groups. The group advocates the death penalty for gay people as part of a broader plan for a Christian theocratic government.[2]
Catholic Apologetics International
The SPLC lists Catholic Apologetics International among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's vocal
antisemitism and propagation of
conspiracy theories, including founder
Robert Sungenis's writings about how the
anti-Christ will be Jewish and how Jews will bring about the rule of
Satan.[49]
Catholic Family News
The SPLC lists Catholic Family News among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the publisher's vocal antisemitism and propagation of
conspiracy theories, including the
Judeo-Masonic conspiracy theory and the claim that Judaism is "part of the Kingdom of Satan."[49]
Culture Wars/Fidelity Press
The SPLC lists Culture Wars/Fidelity Press among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the publisher's vocal antisemitism and focus on "the alleged evils of the Jews": one Culture Wars cover story was "The Judaism of Hitler," and founder E. Michael Jones claims that the Holocaust was "a reaction to Jewish Messianism (in the form of Bolshevism)."[49]
Chalcedon Foundation
The SPLC lists the Chalcedon Foundation among its Anti-Gay hate groups. The group advocates the death penalty for gay people as part of a broader plan for a Christian theocratic government. Its founder,
R.J. Rushdoony, also opposed interracial marriage and racial integration, saying that the Bible "recognizes that some people are by nature slaves," and
denied the Holocaust.[2]
Dove World Outreach Center
The SPLC lists the Dove World Outreach Center among its General Hate hate groups.[4] It cites the group's "increasingly vicious attacks on gays and Muslims," including leader Terry Jones's
plan to burn the Qur'an.[2]
Family Research Council
The SPLC lists the Family Research Council among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's status as a "font of anti-gay propaganda" due to its continual false claims that gay people are more likely to abuse children and that the gay rights movement aims to promote pedophilia. The group's active and influential participation in campaigns against LGBT rights legislation, and its promotion of scientifically questionable
conversion therapy, are also factors.[50]
Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints
The SPLC lists the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints among its General Hate hate groups.[4] It describes the group as a "white supremacist, homophobic, antigovernment, totalitarian cult," noting for example that members view the
Mormon church's decision to ordain black priests as its "ultimate spiritual downfall" and that leader
Warren Jeffs has said that the devil puts evil on earth via black people.[51]
Family Research Institute
The SPLC lists the Family Research Institute among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's promotion of "completely discredited junk science pushed out by
a man who has been condemned by three professional organizations," including the claim that gay people abuse children at far higher rates than straight people, that gay people have shorter lifespans, and that the gay rights movement promotes pedophilia and rape.[2]
Legion of St. Louis and IHS Press
The SPLC lists the Legion of St. Louis and IHS Press among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It describes them as "two of the most nakedly anti-Semitic organizations in the entire radical traditionalist Catholic pantheon." The Legion of St. Louis urges Catholics to form "militant" communities to wage "real ideological and political war" against "Judeo-Masonic" elements in society, and blames the
9/11 attacks on Jews and Masons.[49]
MassResistance
The SPLC lists MassResistance among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's opposition to anti-bullying programs and its propagation of false claims linking homosexuality and pedophilia. The group's leader,
Brian Camenker, claims that
no gay people died in the Holocaust and that gay rights activists promote
bestiality.[2]
Nation of Islam
The SPLC lists the Nation of Islam as a Black Separatist hate group.[38] It cites the group's "long history of racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric that escalated dramatically with
Louis Farrakhan's coup," as well as lesser amounts of homophobia and anti-Catholic sentiment. It also quotes both Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s own 1959 critical description of the NOI as "a hate group arising in our midst that would preach the doctrine of black supremacy," and former NOI preacher
Malcolm X's own denunciation of the "sickness and madness" of NOI racism.[52].
The ADL classifies the NOI as a hate group for its racist and antisemitic rhetoric, including conspiracy theories about Jewish control of the media and Farrakhan's blaming of Jews for the African slave trade.[53]
Remnant Press
The SPLC lists Remnant Press among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's antisemitism, including a claim that Anti-Defamation League tours of the
United States Holocaust Museum were meant to "indoctrinate Catholic educators into the 'holocaust religion'" and demands that Jews convert to Christianity.[49]
Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
The SPLC lists Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's vocal antisemitism: members believe that Jewish people, whom one leader described as "the perpetual enemy of Christ," will be the first to welcome the anti-Christ and will begin "the most savage persecution of the Church in the history of the world," and that the
Virgin Mary threatened Jews with "blood and terror if it's required."[49]
St. Michael's Parish/Mount Saint Michael
The SPLC lists St. Michael's Parish/Mount Saint Michael among its Radical Traditional Catholicism hate groups. It cites the group's propagation of antisemitic conspiracy theories, including the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Jews' supposed desire to establish a
one-world government.[49]
Traditional Values Coalition
The SPLC lists the Traditional Values Coalition among its Anti-Gay hate groups. It cites the group's propagation of the false claims that gay people molest children at "epidemic rates" and that the gay rights movement aims to destroy the concept of marriage and promote pedophilia. Founder
Louis P. Sheldon has advocated forcing people with AIDS into "
cities of refuge."[2]