The Southern Poverty Law Center is no more than a Leftist smear machine. Even Politico asked several years ago whether it had “lost its way?” It certainly has. But that didn’t matter; it continued its savaging of conservatives everywhere. Despite the SPLC’s reputation, it remains a go-to source for woke leaders. Its latest target is “traditionalist Catholic ideology.” The FBI actually accepted that traditionalist Catholic groups are “hate groups” and listed them as “national security threats” based on the SPLC’s smears. After an outcry, the FBI rescinded its report, but did not offer any adequate explanation of the incident.
The SPLC/FBI collaboration against “traditionalist Catholic ideology” represents the advent of a more formalized persecution of Christians in the United States.
The organization was also exposed to be “suffering from a ‘systemic culture of racism and sexism’ within its workplace.” Even the SPLC’s union came out in support of the SPLC’s distressed staff:
“Forcing employees back into the office isn’t about collaboration or cooperation — this is about policing and surveillance of @splcenter‘s lowest-paid employees.”
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— SPLC Union (@SPLCUnion) March 28, 2022
You don’t have to be a genius to know how ridiculous, defamatory and dirty the SPLC is, but it remains a powerful instrument of today’s woke overlords. While it specifically smears “traditional Catholic teachings” as “radical,” the new woke Catholic ideology fully meets its standards.
The woke religion has aggressively infiltrated every domain.
“FBI cites Southern Poverty Law Center to warn about ‘radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology,’” by Ryan Foley, Christian Post, February 9, 2023:
The FBI has rescinded a report classifying “radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology” as a national security threat based on claims from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center after a former FBI agent voiced concerns about the FBI’s reliance on partisan sources.
Kyle Seraphin, a former FBI special agent, shared a document published by the FBI’s Richmond field office warning that “the increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology almost certainly presents opportunities for threat mitigation through the exploration of new avenues for tripwire and source development.”
FBI Richmond distributed the document internally on Jan. 23, and Seraphin posted a copy on the website UncoverDC Wednesday.
“RTCs are typically characterized by the rejection of the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) as a valid church council; disdain for most of the popes elected since Vatican II, particularly Pope Francis and Pope John Paul II; and frequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, and white supremacist ideology,” the document states.
FBI document noted that “Vatican II took place from 1962-1965 and essentially shaped the Modern Roman Rite Catholic Church.”
“It was intended to help the church respond to global cultural changes in the aftermath of World War II and resulted in significant reforms to the liturgy, attitudes towards non-Christian religions, roles and responsibilities of the laity, views on religious freedom, etc,” the document added.
While the document, which the FBI referred to as a “domain product,” associated “radical-traditionalist Catholics” with opposition to Vatican II, it clarified that “Radical-traditionalist Catholics compose a small minority of overall Roman Catholic adherents and are separate and distinct from ‘traditionalist Catholics’ who prefer the Traditional Latin Mass and pre-Vatican II teachings and traditions, but without the more extremist ideological beliefs and violent rhetoric.”
“FBI Richmond assesses RMVE interest in RTCs is likely to increase over the next 12 to 24 months in the run-up to the next general election cycle complicating the overall RMVE threat picture while also creating new opportunities for mitigation efforts,” the FBI report states.
“This assessment is made in light of the ongoing polarization characterizing the US political environment and the probability that policy issues of mutual interest to RMVEs and RTC adherents will remain in the public spotlight.”
The FBI states that RTCs and RMVEs might have a common cause to act following legislation or judicial decisions “in areas such as abortion rights, immigration, affirmative action, and LGBTQ protections.”
“During this same 12 to 24 month period, the overall RTC community is likely to remain relatively stable or show modest growth based on potential disaffection with mainline Catholic churches on social issues in the aforementioned areas, providing RMVEs a persistent Catholic-oriented base with which to interact,” the report states.
The document included an appendix featuring examples of radical-traditionalist Catholic groups in the U.S. based on information compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that has long been criticized for classifying organizations that uphold traditional beliefs on marriage, sexuality and abortion “hate” groups…..
