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==Southern Poverty Law Center==

==Southern Poverty Law Center==

The Southern Poverty Law Center is a leftwing legal and activist organization created in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded by trial lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin, and its first president was civil rights leader Julian Bond, who would later take control of the NCAAP. SPLC supports a wide variety of liberal positions; it is pro-immigration, advocates multiculturalism and the homosexual agenda, supports racial preferences and defendants' rights, and advocates against what it considers "hate groups".

The '''Southern Poverty Law Center''' is a left-wing legal and activist [[organization]] created in 1971 in Montgomery, [[Alabama]]. It was founded by trial lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin, and its first president was civil rights leader Julian Bond, who would later take control of the NCAAP. SPLC supports a wide variety of liberal positions; it is pro-immigration, advocates multiculturalism and the homosexual agenda, supports racial preferences and defendants' rights, and advocates against what it considers "hate groups".

This "controversial, liberal organization" <ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/dec98/southern19.htm</ref> has been criticized in mainstream press for being extravagant in its spending, and using charges of racism to stiffle conservatives. <ref>http://cofcc.org/?p=984</ref>

This "controversial, liberal organization" <ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/dec98/southern19.htm</ref> has been criticized in mainstream press for being extravagant in its spending, and using charges of racism to stiffle conservatives. <ref>http://cofcc.org/?p=984</ref>