Vimeo Categorized the Christian Faith as ‘Hateful,’ Blacklisted Group Says
By Tyler O’Neil
On Friday, the global video platform Vimeo banned a Christian non-profit group, citing the far-left smear factory the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC had accused the American Family Association (AFA) of being a “hate group,” placing it on a list with notorious white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. According to the SPLC, AFA is an “anti-LGBT hate group” largely because it espouses traditional Christian doctrine on marriage and sexuality.
“Vimeo has essentially characterized the Christian faith as ‘hateful’ because the Bible teaches that sex outside of marriage between a man and a woman is sinful. Yes, that includes homosexual activity,” Ed Vitagliano, AFA’s executive vice president, told PJ Media in a statement. “This has been Christian teaching for 2,000 years. Vimeo’s religious bigotry is appalling, and we reject the company’s heavy-handed censorship.”
Vimeo told AFA the Christian group cannot have an account on its website “if you are a member of a terror or hate group,” AFA President Tim Wildmon explained in a note to members on Friday. AFA protested that it was neither a terrorist group nor a hate group, but Vimeo responded with a letter citing the SPLC.
As I explain in my book Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the SPLC began as a noble civil rights organization, getting innocent people off of death row, but co-founder Morris Dees changed the organization, pivoting toward bankrupting the Ku Klux Klan. This strategy brought in the big bucks, and the SPLC easily defeated true hate groups in court.
After bankrupting the KKK and similar hate groups, the SPLC began to look for fresh fields to conquer. It began to accuse more mainstream conservative and Christian organizations of being “hate groups” like the KKK. The SPLC also exaggerated the threat of lone individuals, defunct organizations, and sad blogs by calling them “hate groups” and using them to pad the numbers to keep raising money.
Last year, former employees came clean about being “part of the con,” exaggerating “hate” to bilk donors. Dees was fired and other SPLC leaders stepped down amid a racism and sexism scandal. The organization has yet to release the results of an “internal review” it promised last March.
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