Louis “Lou” Sheldon, founder and former head of the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), a once formidable anti-LGBTQ hate group and lobbying organization, died May 29 in Southern California. He was 85.
Louis “Lou” Sheldon, founder and former head of the Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), a once formidable anti-LGBTQ hate group and lobbying organization, died May 29 in Southern California. He was 85.
Family Research Council (FRC) has branched out of its usual anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice rhetoric to push longtime right-wing conspiracy theories about voting by mail. It’s a narrative that is gaining popularity during COVID-19 restrictions with regard to public gatherings and social distancing.
Facebook continues to provide a safe haven for hate groups and extremists despite the company’s attempts to “stop the most egregious and dangerous groups from using its tools.” Hatewatch staff previously reported several extremist groups and pages currently active on the platform directly to Facebook in 2018.
A litany of conservative groups and figures, including members of hate and antigovernment extremist groups, have signed a March 17 letter to President Trump asking him to investigate China for its alleged role in spreading the novel coronavirus and hiding its origins.
Anti-LGBTQ hate group Ruth Institute presented a “Make the Family Great Again” petition to the State Department at its Commission on Unalienable Rights meeting Feb. 21.
The New Independent Fundamental Baptist network, most prominently associated with anti-LGBTQ pastor Steven Anderson, appears to be in turmoil as infighting again erupts, this time between Anderson and fellow pastors in the network.
A conference ostensibly meant to showcase “family policy” reveals how anti-LGBTQ groups have embraced strong-family rhetoric to push their agenda of intolerance.
Influential evangelical leader Franklin Graham has continued his anti-LGBTQ associations by speaking to a hate group that brands “trans” activists as guilty of harming children.
A judge has ordered the remote compound of the anti-LGBTQ group Aggressive Christianity Missionary Training Corps sold for $2.8 million.
President Donald Trump will address the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, the White House confirmed.
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