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	<itunes:subtitle>Hatewatch examines the hate movement and other extremist activities in the United States.</itunes:subtitle>
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		<title>Author of Discredited Anti-Gay Study to Speak at NOM Affiliate Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/05/29/author-of-discredited-anti-gay-study-to-speak-at-nom-affiliate-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/05/29/author-of-discredited-anti-gay-study-to-speak-at-nom-affiliate-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 20:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Schlatter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Regnerus, the author of a widely discredited 2012 study purporting to show that same-sex parents are bad for children, will be speaking this weekend at a conference sponsored by the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Geared toward college students, the annual It Takes a Family (ITAF) conference addresses [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Leading Race ‘Scientist’ Dies in Canada</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/05/leading-race-scientist-dies-in-canada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/05/leading-race-scientist-dies-in-canada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Academic Racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jean Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday night in Canada. The man who sparked a firestorm of controversy and protest in the late 1980s with his theories about the correlation between genital size and intelligence, and in later years was the head [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>94</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dawn of ‘Red America’: Extremists React to SCOTUS Ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/06/29/dawn-of-red-america-extremists-react-to-scotus-ruling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/06/29/dawn-of-red-america-extremists-react-to-scotus-ruling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Antigovernment activists and far-right extremists are waxing hysterical over yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold President Obama’s signature achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Mike Vanderboegh, an antigovernment activist who in 2010 reacted to the imminent passage of the health care law by calling on Americans to break the windows of local [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>57</slash:comments>
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		<title>CPAC Lineup Includes Hate Group, ‘Patriot’ Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/09/cpac-lineup-includes-hate-group-patriot-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/09/cpac-lineup-includes-hate-group-patriot-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was dealt a blow last year when several organizations withdrew over the inclusion of a gay conservative group, GOProud, on its roster of sponsors. Having officially banished all gays who so much as make a peep about their rights, however, the annual right-wing shindig is back [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anti-Gay Haters Plan Press Conference Today at SPLC</title>
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		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/17/anti-gay-haters-plan-press-conference-today-at-splc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Propaganda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today at noon, a group of the nastiest gay-bashers in America plans to hold a press conference in front of the Montgomery, Ala., offices of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which publishes this blog. Claiming that the SPLC is engaged in a “campaign to demonize adherents of traditional Judeo-Christian morality,” the white organizers of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>76</slash:comments>
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		<title>Religious Right Claims Gay Advocates to Blame for Suicides</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/22/religious-right-claims-gay-advocates-to-blame-for-suicides/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/22/religious-right-claims-gay-advocates-to-blame-for-suicides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Steinback</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than a little rhetorical contortionism is required to follow their logic, but according to several better-known leaders of the religious right, responsibility for the recent wave of suicides of gay teens rests largely with… gay-rights activists. The argument goes something like this: Young homosexuals who are relentlessly bullied and taunted commit suicide because gay-rights [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conservatives’ Friendly Gestures Toward Gays Infuriate Far Right</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/18/conservatives-gestures-toward-gays-infuriates-far-right/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/18/conservatives-gestures-toward-gays-infuriates-far-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conservative columnist and author Ann Coulter’s decision to be the featured speaker next month at a “Homocon” gathering of homosexual conservatives has gotten her axed as a keynote speaker at a meeting of prominent far-right personalities. Joseph Farah’s decision to cut Coulter from his Taking America Back National Conference in Miami next month is only [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Religious Right Reacts With Fury to Prop 8 Knockdown</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/05/religious-right-reacts-with-fury-to-prop-8-knockdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/05/religious-right-reacts-with-fury-to-prop-8-knockdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the hours since a federal judge struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage yesterday, religious-right organizations have sent up an angry howl of protest, accusing the judge of doing everything from overruling the Constitution to laying the groundwork for a contemporary version of Sodom and Gomorrah. Tim Wildmon, leader of the American Family Association, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>IFI’s Laurie Higgins Goes Off the Deep End, Again</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/06/07/ifis-laurie-higgins-goes-off-the-deep-end-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/06/07/ifis-laurie-higgins-goes-off-the-deep-end-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Right]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So you thought McDonald’s was a huge fast-food restaurant chain making huge profits and reaping some criticism in the process over the healthiness of its food? Well, think again. The company whose 31,000 outlets serve nearly 47 million people a day actually is a full-fledged font of evil. It is “hell bent on using its [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Last Word: Hatewatch’s 3rd Annual Smackdown Awards</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/12/31/the-last-word-hatewatchs-3rd-annual-smackdown-awards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/12/31/the-last-word-hatewatchs-3rd-annual-smackdown-awards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Year-End]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of the year again, and Hatewatch’s intrepid staff is just now climbing out of the protective moonsuits needed to trawl through the year’s worst from the filth-spewing hate-mongers and fellow travelers who populate the radical right in America. Once more, we’ve done our best to go beyond the merely off-putting or revolting [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/12/31/the-last-word-hatewatchs-3rd-annual-smackdown-awards/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Religious Right Promotes Falsehoods in Last-Ditch Attempt to Stall Federal Hate Crimes Bill</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/07/17/religious-right-promotes-falsehoods-in-last-ditch-attempt-to-stall-federal-hate-crimes-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/07/17/religious-right-promotes-falsehoods-in-last-ditch-attempt-to-stall-federal-hate-crimes-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonia Scherr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the days leading up to yesterday’s Senate approval of far-reaching federal hate crimes legislation, religious right anti-gay groups were ramping up their rhetoric in a last-ditch attempt to defeat it. But while their tone was shriller, their tune hadn’t changed: As they’ve done for months, these organizations were falsely claiming that the Matthew Shepard [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Once Again, the Religious Right Lies About Hate Crimes Law</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/05/19/once-again-the-religious-right-lies-about-hate-crimes-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/05/19/once-again-the-religious-right-lies-about-hate-crimes-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A proposed new federal hate crimes law would allow prosecution of crimes motivated by bias against homosexuality or “gender identity,” among other characteristics, and provide funding for the feds to go after hate criminals who local authorities fail to investigate or prosecute. But in their alternate universe, religious-right anti-gay groups have seized upon the act’s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Illinois Family Institute Again Cites Discredited Research, Briefly</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/04/17/the-illinois-family-institute-again-cites-discredited-research-briefly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/04/17/the-illinois-family-institute-again-cites-discredited-research-briefly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the 13th annual “Day of Silence,” an event organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network to call attention to the bullying of sexual minorities in schools. And the Illinois Family Institute (IFI) is mad. So mad, in fact, that it put up a ham-handed propaganda video on its website Wednesday, complete [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anti-Gay &#8216;Christian&#8217; Activist Cites Radical Anti-Semite</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/05/20/anti-gay-%e2%80%98christian%e2%80%99-activist-cites-radical-anti-semite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/05/20/anti-gay-%e2%80%98christian%e2%80%99-activist-cites-radical-anti-semite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 15:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Casey Sanchez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christian Right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Duke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ted Pike]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Peter LaBarbera has spent more than 20 years on the hard edge of the religious right, ranging from a stint as a reporter for The Washington Times to a whole career as what he calls a “conservative critic of the homosexual activist movement.” He has been an official of far-right groups like Concerned Women for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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