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HATE
SPLC: 383 Hate Groups Active in US in 2020
Southern Poverty
Law Center
Stedfast Baptist Church: Anti-LGBTQ Hate
Group
Female Couple Shot to Death at Utah
Campsite
Teen Accused of Breaking Into Gay Man's Home and Beating
Him With Wrench
London Preacher Guilty of Hate Crime for Homophobic
Tirade
New Report: 91% of LGBTQ
Teens are Bullied in Trump's America
Cops Beat Up Trans Woman:
She Didn't Make Eye Contact
Take a Stand Against Hate Crimes
Pete Buttigieg and His Husband: Deserving of Death
Hate Crimes
Facts and Stats
Hateful Donor Yanks Funds for Sick Girl with Lesbian
Moms

SPLC: List of Hate Groups
Pastor Says: They Should
All Be Executed
GOP Lawmaker Says Gays Who Get Beat Up
are Getting What They Deserve for Perverse Lifestyle
Gay
Hate Crimes: Faces and Stories
Lesbian Couple Brutally Attacked by Gang of Thugs
Info: Tragic Events
Attack on Trans Woman in Paris
HRC: Violence Against Trans Community in 2019
Tribute to Hate Crimes Victims
Hate Crimes and National Coming Out Day
We Give a Damn: Campaign Against Hate Crimes
Wikipedia: List of Hate Groups
NY Times: LGBTQ People Are More Likely to Be Targets of
Hate Crimes
Incidents of
Hate
In
December 2016, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported
that over 800 hate incidents occurred since the election
of Donald Trump.
Two
reports were released by the Southern Poverty Law
Center, during a press conference in Washington, DC,
that document how President-elect Donald Trump’s own
words have sparked hate incidents across the country and
are having a profoundly negative effect on the nation’s
schools.
In the report, Ten Days After, SPLC documented
867 bias-related incidents in the 10 days following the
presidential election. Among them: multiple reports of
black children being told to ride in the back of school
buses; the words "Trump Nation" and "Whites Only" being
painted on a church with a large immigrant population;
and an elderly gay man being pulled from his car and
beaten by an assailant who said the "president says we
can kill all you faggots now."
In a second report, After the Election: The Trump
Effect, SPLC's Teaching Tolerance project details
the findings of an online survey of more than 10,000
educators since the election. Ninety percent reported
that their school's climate has been negatively
affected, and 80 percent described heightened anxiety
and concern among minority students worried about the
impact of the election on their families.
At the press conference, SPLC President Richard Cohen
was joined by other human rights and education leaders
in calling on President Trump to take responsibility for
his actions and to repair the damage he has caused.
Trumphobia: Crisis Hotlines Flooded With Calls From
Scared LGBTQ Teens
Pro-Trumper Steals
Church's Pride Flag: Calls It a Sodomite Symbol
Video: Watch C-SPAN Press Conference
New Report: 91% of LGBTQ
Teens are Bullied in Trump's America
Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in Aftermath
of Election
Trump Effect: Impact of the Presidential Election
Jezebel: SPLC Documents Nearly 900 Hate
Crimes in 10 Days Following Donald Trump's Election
NBC News: Southern Poverty Law Center
Reports 'Outbreak of Hate' After Election
HRC: Violence Against Trans Community in 2019
Info: Anti-LGBTQ Bullying
Lesbian Woman: Five Time Victim of Anti-Gay Hate Crimes
New York Times: Groups Document More Than
860 Hate Incidents Since Elections
NY Daily News: Nearly 900 Hate Attacks
Reported in 10 Days after Trump Election
Reuters: US Hate Incidents Rise Sharply
After Trump Win
ABC News: Outrage in Wake of Trans Attacks
CNN: Harassment in Schools Skyrockets
After Election
Info: Critical Incidents
Transgender People Killed in 2018
American Preacher Spreads
Hate

Anti-LGBTQ Hate
Crimes On the Rise
Hate crime
murders in the US reached a 27-year high last year,
according to new data released by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), and hate crimes targeting LGBTQ
people rose by 6% in 2018 over 2017.
The 24 hate crime murders that occurred in 2018 mark
their highest occurrence since the FBI began tracking
and reporting hate crimes in 1991. While the number of
overall hate crimes dropped slightly from 7,175 in 2017
to 7,036 in 2018, they remain high. Even more troubling:
the number of actual hate crimes and murders that
occurred in the US is likely to be much higher, due to
under-reporting.

Among the
7,036 “single-bias hate crimes” reported in 2018 (that
is, hate crimes in which a single perceived
characteristic motivated the attacker) 16.7% happened
due to sexual orientation bias and 2.2% occurred due to
gender identity bias. An additional 59.6% occurred due
to racism and 18.7% were motivated by religious-bias.
These 7,036 single-biased hate crimes affected 8,646
victims total.
Of the 1,445 victims targeted due to sexual-orientation:
59.7 % were targeted for being gay men, 12.2% were
targeted for being lesbian women, and 1.5% were targeted
for being bisexual. Another 24.9% targeted LGBTQ people
generally without listing a specific identity.

Of the 189
victims targeted for gender-identity, 160 were victims
of anti-transgender bias and 29 were victims of
anti-gender non-conforming (GNC) bias. This is an
increase over the 131 reported anti-transgender or anti-GNC
hate crimes in 2017.
[Source: Daniel Villarreal, LGBTQ Nation, November 2019]
LGBTQ Nation: Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crimes Reach a New High
Pete Buttigieg and His Husband: Deserving of Death
Stedfast Baptist Church: Anti-LGBTQ Hate
Group
HRC Report: Alarming Increase in Number of LGBTQ Hate
Crimes
Female Couple Shot to Death at Utah
Campsite
American Preacher Spreads
Hate
Mother Jones: Is Political Climate Leading to More Anti-LGBTQ
Violence?
Anti-LGBTQ Violence on the Rise and Government is to
Blame
CBS News: Data Shows US Hate Crimes Continue to Rise
Info: Tragic Events
New Report: 91% of LGBTQ
Teens are Bullied in Trump's America
Reuters: Attacks Against
LGBTQ Community Rarely Prosecuted
Trans Worker Threatened by Customers
Hate Crimes
Defined
A hate crime is any crime which is targeted at an
individual due to prejudice or hatred towards the
individual’s race, color, national origin, ethnicity,
religious belief, disability, language, gender, gender
expression, gender identity, or sexual orientation. A
hate crime can be committed against an individual, an
institution, a business or even society. It’s committed
to harm, intimidate or terrify the targeted individual
as well as the individual’s group. In hate crimes, the
victims have done nothing to warrant such acts of crime,
except for the fact that they are who they are.
Violent crime has been declining throughout the United
States in recent years, yet hate crimes against LGBTQ
people continue to rise. In 1997, at least 18 lives were
lost as a result of anti-LGBTQ violence. There were a
total of 1,375 reported violent crimes against LGBTQ
individuals. Further the societal costs of hate crimes,
in terms of self-esteem, productivity, and public
expense, are incalculable.
Hate crimes send a message that certain groups of us are
not welcome and unsafe in a particular community. As a
result, studies indicate that hate crimes appear to have
more serious psychological effects on the victims and
the communities they represent than do other crimes.
Research indicates that victims of hate crimes often
link their vulnerability to their personal, cultural, or
spiritual identity. The result is that victims of hate
crimes often suffer greater emotional trauma than other
crime victims.
Hate Groups
The Southern Poverty Law Center (Intelligence Project)
monitors the activities of hate groups throughout the
United States. Listed here is a sampling of hate groups,
including anti-gay organizations.
Abiding Truth Ministries
Alliance Defending Freedom
American
Vision
American
Family Association
American
Freedom Party
America's
Promise Ministries
Chalcedon Foundation
Council of Conservative Citizens
Family
Research Council
Ku Klux Klan
Liberty
Council
Mass
Resistance
Traditional Values Coalition
Watchmen on the Walls
Westboro Baptist Church
Southern Poverty
Law Center
Take a Stand Against Hate Crimes
American Preacher Spreads
Hate
Hate Crimes
Facts and Stats
New Report: 91% of LGBTQ
Teens are Bullied in Trump's America
ABC News: Outrage in Wake of Trans Attacks
Hateful Donor Yanks Funds for Sick Girl with Lesbian
Moms
FBI Arrests Teen with 25 Guns Threatening to Shoot Up a
Gay Bar
SPLC: List of Hate Groups
Gay
Hate Crimes: Faces and Stories
Info: Tragic Events
HRC: Violence Against Trans Community in 2019
Tribute to Hate Crimes Victims
Hate Crimes and National Coming Out Day
Pastor Says: They Should
All Be Executed
We Give a Damn: Campaign Against Hate Crimes
Wikipedia: List of Hate Groups
NY Times: LGBTQ People Are More Likely to Be Targets of
Hate Crimes
Gay Dad
Describes Homophobe's Terrifying Attack on His Family
A gay dad took to social media to describe the vitriolic
anti-gay rhetoric a stranger accosted him and his family
with on an Amtrak train, and the way the encounter
traumatized his children. The furious father also
detailed how the stranger had accosted his 6-year-old
son in the restroom.
Robbie Pierce, his husband, and their kids were en route
to enjoy a family holiday when the stranger suddenly
appeared near their seats and began screaming at them,
according to a thread Pierce posted. Addressing
the couple's 6-year-old boy, the stranger shouted,
"Remember what I told you. They stole you. They're
pedophiles," Pierce recounted.
Pierce described how his fatherly instincts took over,
propelling him as he placed himself between his small
children and the aggressor. Noting that his son's
"life has already been so hard" and how the boy "carries
traumas larger than his whole small, fierce frame,"
Pierce related that he told the intruder, "Get away from
my family."
But the hate-filled harangue continued. "Family!? That's
not a family!" the verbal assailant shouted, according
to Pierce's recollection. "You're rapists. You steal
black and Asian kids."
"My son and my 5 year old daughter were both now openly
crying, petrified," Pierce related. But the attacker
kept right on terrifying the children, screaming at
them, "These guys aren't natural. Homosexuals are an
abomination. They steal and rape kids."

Pierce
drew a direct link between the stranger's hideous tirade
and the legislative attacks that GOP state lawmakers
across the country have launched, targeting LGBTQ youth
and their families. "We all know where that comes from,"
Pierce posted. "So thanks to Fox and Murdoch, JK Rowling
and Marjorie Taylor Green, to the senators and priests
and everyone else who harms kids and thinks it's
politically expedient to project onto gentle families
like mine to stir up their lucrative culture war."
The successful efforts of Florida lawmakers to pass the
"Don't Say Gay" law, which criminalizes classroom
discussion of LGBTQ issues, has spawned a strategy in
which supporters of anti-gay bills smear anyone who
objects to such laws as "pedophiles" who "groom"
children. "We've dealt with this brand of terrifying
homophobic stranger before with our son," Pierce
detailed. "But 'pedophiles' and 'rapists' were new in
the mix, at least out loud."
Speaking about the ordeal, Pierce noted how the attacker
"just seemed like he came preloaded with catch phrases
from Fox News or DeSantis, or whoever was out there."
Pierce and his husband coordinated efforts to protect
their children; as his husband "shouted the man away
from us," Pierce shepherded the kids away from the
danger and into another train car. The attacker "lost
his focus on us" when a conductor showed up to
intervene, Pierce recounted, going on to add that the
terrified children "cried for almost an hour."
The trauma wasn't resolved so quickly, though. Pierce
told the New Civil Rights Movement that the children
were so deeply upset that they "woke up crying" in the
night, and at "4:30 in the morning, the two dads'
6-year-old boy started to throw up."
Pierce documented one of the most horrifying details of
the entire ordeal: The way the man accosted their son
when the boy went to the restroom.
"Yet, somehow WE are the groomers," the appalled family
man wrote in exasperation. Near the end of his thread,
Pierce posted that the children "asked if we'll see that
man again and I said probably not him, but men just like
him. But we'll be stronger each time. And most people
aren't like that guy. I hope this was true."
"Please help us protect our families, friends," Pierce
added. "We feel so outnumbered and tired."
[Source: Kilian Melloy, Edge Media Network, April 2022]
Lesbian Couple Brutally Attacked by Gang of Thugs
NBC News: Southern Poverty Law Center
Reports 'Outbreak of Hate' After Election
Info: Anti-LGBTQ Bullying
ABC News: Outrage in Wake of Trans Attacks
New York Times: Groups Document More Than
860 Hate Incidents Since Elections
NY Daily News: Nearly 900 Hate Attacks
Reported in 10 Days after Trump Election
Reuters: US Hate Incidents Rise Sharply
After Trump Win
CNN: Harassment in Schools Skyrockets
After Election
Transgender People Killed in 2018
Info: Critical Incidents
Lesbian Couple
Brutally Attacked in London
Two women
in London were attacked in a bus when they refused to
kiss for straight men’s viewing pleasure. Melania
Geymonat, 28, and her girlfriend Chris were taking a
night bus in London in May 2019.
Geymonat reportedthe incident, saying that she kissed
Chris and then four young men started harassing them.
The couple and the young men were alone together in the
top level of the bus. “They started behaving like
hooligans, demanding that we kissed so they could enjoy
watching, calling us ‘lesbians’ and describing sexual
positions,” she said. “I don’t remember the whole
episode, but the word ‘scissors’ stuck in my mind.” She
said that she started making jokes, hoping to break the
tension and to get the men to go away, but they didn’t.
Instead, they started throwing coins at the women.

“The next thing I know is that Chris is in the middle of
the bus fighting with them,” Geynomat said. “On an
impulse, I went over there only to find her face
bleeding and three of them beating her up.” The men
started punching her, and she may have lost
consciousness. She said that before she realized what
happened, police were on the bus and she was bleeding.
She found that their phone and bag had been taken. Both
victims were taken to the hospital for treatment.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, denounced the attack,
saying, “This was a disgusting, misogynistic attack,” he
wrote. “Hate crimes against the LGBTQ community will not
be tolerated in London.”
“I’m tired of being taken as a sexual object,” Geymonat
stated. “We have to endure verbal harassment and
chauvinist, misogynistic, and homophobic violence
because when you stand up for yourself shit like this
happens.” She said that she wanted to share the picture
of her after the attack because “violence has become a
common thing” and people don’t pay attention otherwise.
“Sometimes it’s necessary to see a woman bleeding after
having been punched to feel some kind of impact.”
[Source: LGBTQ Nation, June 2019]
Lesbian Couple Brutally Attacked by Gang of Thugs
Gay
Hate Crimes: Faces and Stories
Female Couple Shot to Death at Utah
Campsite
Tribute to Hate Crimes Victims
Lesbian Woman: Five Time Victim of Anti-Gay Hate Crimes
Hate Crimes and National Coming Out Day
We Give a Damn: Campaign Against Hate Crimes
Wikipedia: List of Hate Groups
NY Times: LGBTQ People Are More Likely to Be Targets of
Hate Crimes
Hate Crimes
Myths and Facts
The Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity is dedicated
to sending out the message that it is unacceptable to
victimize someone because of that person’s race,
religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation,
gender, or disability.
In the aftermath of the horrible torture and murder of
Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming on October 6, 1998,
a public discussion on the meaning and value of bias
crimes laws occupies talk shows, newspapers, and dining
room tables. Unfortunately, too often the discussion is
based on misinformation. Ironically, in some cases the
confusion about bias crimes laws is itself used to
promote a hate filled agenda. A society that is
committed to equity and justice must focus this
important bias crimes discussion on fact, not myth.
Myth: All crimes involve hate. Hate crimes laws are
redundant and unnecessary.
Fact: The crimes in question are accurately identified
as “bias crimes." The term “hate crimes” is misleading
unless it is used with a clarifying addition, “hate
crimes motivated by bias.” A bias crime is an act that
is motivated by the perpetrator’s bias against the group
to which the victim belongs. Obviously, not all crimes
that involve hate are included in this definition of a
bias crime.
Myth: Bias crimes laws violate free speech rights by
criminalizing thoughts and beliefs.
Fact: Bias crimes laws criminalize the action that is
motivated by bias, not the bias isolated from the
action. The US Supreme Court defined the perimeters of
bias crimes laws in relation to free speech issues in
two decisions in 1992.
Myth: A murder is a murder. A murder committed out of
bias is no different from other murders.
Fact: Not all murders are treated equally in criminal
law. The difference between first degree murder and
second degree murder, for example, is the intent of the
perpetrator. Society has determined in its laws that the
intent of the perpetrator changes the nature of the
crime committed and therefore a different penalty is
appropriate. Enhancing the penalty for a crime involving
bias reflects the fact that the harm done by an assault
motivated by bias is more serious than the harm from an
assault itself.

Myth: An assault committed against a Caucasian person is
as serious as one committed against an African-American
person. Bias crime laws say one is more serious than the
other.
Fact: The crimes are equally serious if in both cases
assault is all that is involved. However, if the assault
is a bias crime, additional harm is done. First, bias
crimes tend to be more violent. Moreover, the harm done
to the victim is deeper. The attack is aimed at the very
identity of a person, wounding the spirit as well as the
body. Second, the effect of fear and intimidation is
long lasting. Bias crime victims frequently change their
daily patterns of action and sometimes even their
residence out of fear. The aftermath of the crime
thereby often affects the victim economically. Third, a
bias crime intimidates the whole community to which the
victim belongs. Finally, bias crimes drive wedges
between groups of people and thereby have a serious
societal impact.
Myth: Bias crimes laws grant special rights to certain
groups.
Fact: Bias crimes laws identify certain categories such
as race, not specific communities of people such as
Native American. The Bias Crime Law in Washington State,
for example, identifies the categories of race, color,
religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual
orientation and physical, mental or sensory handicap.
The law does not identify specific groups within those
categories such as African- Americans, Jewish people, or
gays and lesbians. Indeed, bias crime charges have been
filed in cases where the victim was white. Bias crimes
laws increase the penalty not because of the race etc.
of the victim, but because of the bias of the
perpetrator. Hence, if a straight man is attacked
because the perpetrator perceives him to be gay, the
bias crime law may apply.
Myth: Bias crime laws are promoted to further the agenda
of certain groups.
Fact: The laws protect everyone within the defined
categories: white as well as black, Christian as well as
Jew, straight as well as gay. The “special rights” and
“gay agenda” attacks of the extreme religious right are
dishonest attempts to utilize misinformation and
confusion to further their own homophobic agenda. Would
a bias crimes law in Wyoming have stopped the
perpetrators from killing Matthew Shepard? Probably not.
But neither do laws criminalizing robbery stop all
robbers. We need inclusive bias crimes laws that are
clearly understood and resolutely enforced. Such action
sends a loud message that it is unacceptable to
victimize someone because of that person’s race,
religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation,
gender, or disability. Bias crime law convictions bring
justice which helps the healing process for the
survivors of the crime, including the community to which
the victim belonged. The confusion and misinformation
about bias crimes must be cleared up so that we can
focus on the real problem, namely, the prejudice and
bigotry that gives rise to bias crimes.
[Source: Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity]

Southern Poverty
Law Center
Take a Stand Against Hate Crimes
HRC: Violence Against Trans Community in 2019
Stedfast Baptist Church: Anti-LGBTQ Hate
Group
Female Couple Shot to Death at Utah
Campsite
Hate Crimes
Facts and Stats
New Report: 91% of LGBTQ
Teens are Bullied in Trump's America
Hateful Donor Yanks Funds for Sick Girl with Lesbian
Moms
American Preacher Spreads
Hate
SPLC: List of Hate Groups
Lesbian Woman: Five Time Victim of Anti-Gay Hate Crimes
Gay
Hate Crimes: Faces and Stories
Tribute to Hate Crimes Victims
Info: Tragic Events
Hate Crimes and National Coming Out Day
FBI Arrests Teen with 25 Guns Threatening to Shoot Up a
Gay Bar
Pastor Says: They Should
All Be Executed
We Give a Damn: Campaign Against Hate Crimes
Wikipedia: List of Hate Groups
NY Times: LGBTQ People Are More Likely to Be Targets of
Hate Crimes
Lesbian Couple Brutally Attacked by Gang of Thugs
Anti-LGBTQ Hate Speech
Hate crime is any form of crime targeting people because
of their actual or perceived belonging to a particular
group. The crimes can manifest in a variety of forms:
physical and psychological intimidation, blackmail,
property damage, aggression and violence, rape, and
murder.
Hate speech is public expressions which spread, incite,
promote or justify hatred, discrimination or hostility
towards a specific group. They contribute to a general
climate of intolerance which in turn makes attacks more
probable against those given groups.

Homophobic hate crime and hate speech is violence and
speech and/or aggression towards LGBTQ people due to
their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender
identity and/or sex characteristics. It includes
homophobic and transphobic hate crime and hate speech.
Why is it important to focus on hate crime and hate
speech against LGBTQ people? LGBTQ people fear violence
and hate everywhere they go. LGBTQ individuals
experience physical/sexual violence or threats on a
daily basis.
In general, hate crime and hate speech aim to undermine
the dignity and value of a human being belonging to a
particular social group – based on their skin color,
ethnicity, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation,
gender identity and sex characteristics. On a wider
scale, it sends a negative message to LGBTQ communities,
their supporters and rest of the society. It implies
that a particular social group does not deserve
recognition, respect, equality and tries to legitimize
attacks on members of that group.

LGBTQ
people hear hate speech (hurtful comments) at every
turn. On the internet (cyberbullying on social media),
in the classroom, on campus, in the workplace, on the
bus, and in the neighborhood. Hate speech against LGBTQ
people can be heard from the media, teachers,
politicians, and preachers. LGBTQ people are victims of
hate speech much more frequently than the rest of the
population.
Anti-LGBTQ
rhetoric and anti-gay speech are themes, catchphrases,
and slogans that have been used against homosexuality or
other non-heterosexual sexual orientations and to demean
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)
people. They range from the demeaning and pejorative to
those expressing negativity on religious, medical, or
moral grounds. The rhetoric generally has an ideological
basis in heterosexism, and can be motivated by
homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.
The
slogans are not just terms of invective but they
represent arguments that are commonly used to convey
opposition to LGBTQ rights or to the full acceptance of
LGBTQ people. Such themes align homosexuality with
sinfulness, immorality, unnatural desires, child abuse,
unhealthy behaviors, and in opposition to traditional
family values.
Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric
Europe: Hate Crimes and Hate Speech
SPLC: List of Hate Groups
Gay
Hate Crimes: Faces and Stories
Tribute to Hate Crimes Victims
Info: Critical Incidents
American Preacher Spreads
Hate
Hate Crimes and National Coming Out Day
We Give a Damn: Campaign Against Hate Crimes
Stedfast Baptist Church: Anti-LGBTQ Hate
Group
Wikipedia: List of Hate Groups
Good Therapy: Why Do People Hate?

North Carolina
Pastors Spews Anti-Gay Speech
In June 2012, Pastor Charles L. Worley of Providence
Road Baptist Church in Maiden, NC, condemned President
Obama's much publicized endorsement of same-sex marriage
while calling for gays and lesbians to be put in an
electrified pen and ultimately killed off.
"Build a
great, big, large fence, 150 or 100 mile long, and put
all the lesbians in there," Worley suggested. "Do the
same thing for the queers and the homosexuals and have
that fence electrified so they can't get out. And you
know what, in a few years, they'll die out. Do you know
why? They can't reproduce!"
He also said that if he's asked who he'll vote for,
he'll reply, "I'm not going to vote for a baby killer
and a homosexual lover!" Many of the congregants cheered
and replied, "Amen."
Worley added, “It makes me puking sick to think about. I
don’t even know whether or not to say this in the
pulpit. Can you imagine kissing some man?”
The pastor's comments seem in line with statements made
by Ron Baity, founding pastor of Berean Baptist Church
in Winston-Salem and head of the anti-marriage equality
organization Return America, who told his own
congregation that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
people should be prosecuted as they were historically,
and Pastor Sean Harris of the Berean Baptist Church in
Fayetteville who advocated parents “punch” their male
child if he is effeminate and "crack that wrist" if he
is limp-wristed.
Similarly, Tim Rabon, pastor of Raleigh's Beacon Baptist
Church, condemned states such as Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Maryland which have already "re-defined"
marriage to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender couples before asking his congregants, "What
is stopping them from refining marriage from a person
and a beast? We're not far from that."
New Report: 91% of LGBTQ
Teens are Bullied in Trump's America
Trumphobia: Crisis Hotlines Flooded With Calls From
Scared LGBTQ Teens
Video: Watch C-SPAN Press Conference
Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in Aftermath
of Election
Trump Effect: Impact of the Presidential Election
Jezebel: SPLC Documents Nearly 900 Hate
Crimes in 10 Days Following Donald Trump's Election
NBC News: Southern Poverty Law Center
Reports 'Outbreak of Hate' After Election
Info: Anti-LGBTQ Bullying
New York Times: Groups Document More Than
860 Hate Incidents Since Elections
NY Daily News: Nearly 900 Hate Attacks
Reported in 10 Days after Trump Election
Reuters: US Hate Incidents Rise Sharply
After Trump Win
CNN: Harassment in Schools Skyrockets
After Election
Transgender People Killed in 2018
Info: Tragic Events

Fred Phelps:
Minister of Hate
The Westboro Baptist Church is a fundamentalist
religious organization, founded by Fred Phelps and based
in Topeka, Kansas. The church runs numerous websites
such as GodHatesFags.com, GodHatesAmerica.com and others
expressing condemnation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender people, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews,
as well as populations it believes are supporting the
aforementioned groups.
The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation
League, and is classified as a hate group by the
Southern Poverty Law Center. Although well-known in
LGBTQ communities for picketing gay pride events and
funerals, the group achieved national notoriety for
picketing funeral processions for soldiers killed in
action during the Iraq War.
While its members identify themselves as Baptists, the
church is an independent church not affiliated with any
known Baptist conventions or associations, nor does any
Baptist institution recognize the church as a
Bible-believing fellowship. The church describes itself
as following Primitive Baptist and Calvinist principles,
though mainstream Primitive Baptists condemn Westboro
Baptist Church and Phelps. Its first public service was
held in November 1955.
The church bases its work around the belief expressed by
its best known slogan and the address of its primary
website, “God hates fags”, and expresses the idea, based
on biblical verses, that nearly every tragedy in the
world is linked to homosexuality, specifically society’s
increasing tolerance and acceptance of the so-called
“Homosexual Agenda.” The group maintains that God hates
homosexuals above all other kinds of “sinners” and that
homosexuality should be a capital crime.
There is estimated to be no more than 150 members of
Westboro Baptist Church, the majority of whom are Fred
Phelps' family members (spouses, children,
grandchildren, great grandchildren).
Southern Poverty
Law Center
Take a Stand Against Hate Crimes
Hate Crimes
Facts and Stats
Info: Critical Incidents
Lesbian Couple Brutally Attacked by Gang of Thugs
SPLC: List of Hate Groups
Gay
Hate Crimes: Faces and Stories
Tribute to Hate Crimes Victims
Hate Crimes and National Coming Out Day
We Give a Damn: Campaign Against Hate Crimes
Wikipedia: List of Hate Groups
American Preacher Spreads
Hate
NY Times: LGBTQ People Are More Likely to Be Targets of
Hate Crimes
Fred Phelps Dies
Fred
Phelps, the founding pastor of the hateful independent
Kansas church known for its virulently anti-gay protests
at public events, has died. The 84-year-old died of
natural causes on March 19, 2014. Phelps founded
Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas in 1955 and
molded it in his hate-filled, fire-and-brimstone image.
Many members of the small congregation are related to
Phelps through blood or marriage.
It is estimated that the church has picketed more than
53,000 events. Typically, a dozen or so church members
(including small children) brandished signs that said
"God Hates Fags." Phelps was often called "the most
hated man in America," a label he seemed to relish. "If
I had nobody mad at me," he said, "what right would I
have to claim that I was preaching the Gospel?" Under
Phelps' leadership, Westboro members have preached that
every calamity, from natural disasters to the Sandy Hook
Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, is
God's punishment for the country's acceptance of
homosexuality. Phelps had advocated for gays and
lesbians to be put to death.
"Fred Phelps will not be missed by the LGBTQ community,
people with HIV/AIDS and the millions of decent people
across the world who found what he and his followers do
deeply hurtful and offensive," the National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force said in a statement. Phelps began his
hateful anti-gay protests in Wichita in 1991 after
complaining that the city refused to stop gay activities
in a public park. He rose to national notoriety in 1998,
when Westboro members picketed at the funeral of Matthew
Shepard, a Wyoming man who was tortured and murdered
because he was gay. Phelps and his church carried signs
that said Shepard was rotting in hell. The Southern
Poverty Law Center calls Westboro Baptist Church
"arguably the most obnoxious and rabid hate group in
America."

Defining Hatred
Hatred or hate is an emotion. It can invoke feelings of
animosity, anger, or resentment, which can be directed
against certain individuals, groups, entities, objects,
behaviors, concepts, or ideas. Hatred is often
associated with feelings of anger, disgust and a
disposition towards the source of hostility. It is an
intense or passionate dislike, contempt, or animosity
for something or someone. To hate someone is to loathe,
detest, abhor, and despise them.
A hate crime (also known as a bias-motivated crime)
generally refers to criminal acts which are seen to have
been motivated by hate. Those who commit hate crimes
target victims because of their perceived membership in
a certain social group, usually defined by race, gender,
religion, sexual orientation, mental disorder,
disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender
identity, or political affiliation. Incidents may
involve physical assault, destruction of property,
bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, or
offensive graffiti or letters (hate mail).
Hate speech is speech (talk, rhetoric, verbiage,
language) perceived to disparage a person or group of
people based on their social or ethnic group, such as
race, sex, age, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual
orientation, gender identity, mental disorder,
disability, language ability, ideology, social class,
occupation, appearance (height, weight, skin color),
mental capacity, and any other distinction that might be
considered a liability.

Hate Crimes
Statistics
Hate Crimes by Bias Type
--48.5 percent were due to racial prejudice
--19.7 percent were due to religious prejudice
--18.5 percent were due to sexual orientation prejudice
--11.8 percent were due to ethnicity or national origin
prejudice
--1.5 percent were due to disability prejudice
Hate Crimes by Activity Type
--45 percent were intimidations
--35.4 percent were simple assaults
--19.1 percent were aggravated assault
--0.5 percent were 8 murders and 9 forcible rapes
Hate Crimes Against Property
--83 percent were classified as acts of vandalism,
destruction, and damage
--17 percent were burglary, arson, larceny-theft,
robbery, motor vehicle theft, and others
Hate Crimes by Race of Offenders
--62.4 percent were white
--18.5 percent were black
--7.3 percent were groups of multiple races
--1 percent were Native Americans or Native Alaskans
--0.7 percent were Asian/Pacific Islander
--10.1 percent unknown
Hate Crimes by Location
--31.3 percent took place in or near homes
--17.2 percent occurred on alleys, highways, streets or
roads
--11.4 percent took place in schools
--6.1 percent happened in garages or parking lots
--4.3 percent occurred in churches, temples, and
synagogues
--29.7 percent other locations
[Source:
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2009 Report]
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