Hatewatch Headlines 9/28/2017

Mother Jones: Watch Roy Moore, the latest GOP star, argue for criminalizing homosexuality.

Think Progress: Trump and Pence quickly embrace extremist candidate who thinks homosexuality should be a crime.

Talking Points Memo: Republicans tiptoe around Moore’s extreme comments: ‘Let’s give him a chance.’

Media Matters: 23 reasons why the NRA’s claims of innocence of racism are manifestly false.

ABC News: FBI has 1,000 open investigations into violent white supremacists’ activities, agency chief says.

Salon: The flop that was Milo’s ‘Free Speech Week’ created a blueprint for defeating the alt-right.

AV Club: A brief history of Baked Alaska, the Internet’s saddest neo-Nazi loser, humiliating himself repeatedly.

CNBC: The CEO who pulled the plug on the Daily Stormer says he did it to protect his company.

Slate: Facebook blocked an ad for a Portland march against white supremacy.

Raw Story: Trump backer planning Michigan protest of kneeling NFL players outed as a David Duke fan.

NBC Sports: Fire chief who disparaged Pittsburgh coach Tomlin as a ‘n-----’ loses his job.

Talking Points Memo: Paul Horner, fake news writer famous for false stories around the 2016 election, found dead at 38.

Tampa Bay Times (FL): ‘Sovereign citizen’ Steven Lorenzo appears in court to contest conviction in torture murders 13 years later.

Phoenix New Times (AZ): Court says Joe Arpaio’s legacy of racial profiling lives on through 35 of his deputies.

CBS Pittsburgh (PA): Self-proclaimed neo-Nazi back in jail, heads to trial for anti-Semitic flyer distribution.

BuzzFeed: MLK’s daughter tweeted about his legacy, and of course some dude mansplained her.

Right Wing Watch: Religious-right radio host Janet Mefferd says white supremacy was ‘corrected’ by the Civil War.

Charlotte Observer (NC): North Carolina Jewish family threatened with series of vandalism hate crimes.

WXYZ-TV (Detroit, MI): Ann Arbor police seeking men who vandalized Michigan campus with graffiti: ‘Free Dylan Roof.’

Oregonian: White man pleads not guilty to racially menacing and intimidating black man in North Portland.