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Washington D.C., Feb 7, 2013 \/ 06:05 pm (CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Following the guilty plea of the man who shot a security guard at the Family Research Council last summer, pro-family organizations are renewing their calls for an end to the label \u201chate group.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cFor far too long, media outlets and reporters have allowed activist groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center to label opponents of same-sex 'marriage' as 'hate groups,'\u201d said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, in a Feb. 6 press release.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cBut words have consequences,\u201d he continued, and the use of such terms \u201ccan lead to harassment and even violence against members of those organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBrown was one of several prominent marriage defenders who reacted to the Feb. 6 hearing of Floyd Corkins II, a Virginia man who admitted to planning a mass shooting at an organization that opposes efforts to redefine marriage.<\/p>\n

\tLast August, Corkins entered the Family Research Council's headquarters in Washington, D.C., where he shot and wounded a security guard before being wrestled to the ground and disarmed.<\/p>\n

\tHe pleaded guilty to transporting a firearm and ammunition across state borders, armed assault with intent to kill and an armed act of terrorism.<\/p>\n

\tAccording to the plea agreement, Corkins told FBI agents that he wished to \u201cmake a statement against the people who work in that building \u2026 and with their stance against gay rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tHe acknowledged during the hearing that he intended to \u201ckill as many people as possible\u201d in the August shooting. He had planned to target other pro-family organizations if he was not arrested, reported CBS News.<\/p>\n

\tIn addition, Corkins said that he wanted to smear Chick-fil-A sandwiches in the faces of his victims to make a point. He had been carrying 15 sandwiches from the fast food chain on the day of the attack.<\/p>\n

\tShortly before the shooting, the president of Chick-fil-A had attracted media attention by stating his support for the biblical view of marriage. Family Research Council had once received a donation from fast food chain.<\/p>\n

\tCorkins also confirmed in his plea agreement that he had picked the Family Research Council as a target based on the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s label of the organization as a \u201chate group.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAccording to its website, the law center gives the designation of \u201chate group\u201d to organizations that \u201chave beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Family Research Council as a \u201chate group,\u201d asserting that it is \u201canti-gay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tFamily Research Council president Tony Perkins responded in a statement by saying that \u201cwhile Corkins was responsible for the shooting, he had been given a license to perpetrate this act of violence by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center which has systematically and recklessly labeled every organization with which they disagree as a 'hate group.'\u201d<\/p>\n

\tThe law center \u201ccan no longer say that it is not a source for those bent on committing acts of violence,\u201d Perkins said of Corkins\u2019 plea and admission of motive.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cOnly by ending its hate labeling practices,\u201d he said, will the Southern Poverty Law Center \u201csend a message that it no longer wishes to be a source for those who would commit acts of violence that are only designed to intimidate and silence Christians and others who support natural marriage and traditional morality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBrown added that media outlets should also consider their use of such labels, which he termed \u201cdeplorable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\"(S)tanding up for traditional marriage does not make anyone 'anti gay,'\u201d he stressed, and such designations can be dangerous.<\/p>\n

\tHe called it \u201creckless for news reports to allow the charge of 'hate group' to be applied to any organization because their beliefs affirm a traditional Judeo-Christian view of marriage and sexual morality,\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe hope that media organizations will seriously reflect on these issues knowing that irresponsible 'hate group' charges nearly led to a massacre at the Family Research Council,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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