Amazon stops donating to hate group that said gays try to “recruit” children

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Amazon just kicked an anti-LGBTQ hate group out of its charity program, and Christian conservatives are decrying the corporation’s “bias against conservatives.”

Amazon runs a program, AmazonSmile, that donates money to charities customers can pick from a list of approved organizations.

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Until earlier this month, customers could choose to have Amazon give a portion of their purchases to the Family Research Council (FRC), an organization dedicated to opposing LGBTQ rights.

But the Washington Times‘s Kay C. James reports that FRC has been removed from the list of charities customers can choose, complaining that all hate groups are banned from AmazonSmile.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that fights against hate groups and extremism in the U.S., lists FRC as an anti-LGBTQ hate group. FRC’s leadership has made numerous comments comparing gay people to pedophiles, calling transgender people mentally ill, supporting conversion therapy, and saying that same-sex couples are violent parents.

The group has been manufacturing anti-LGBTQ propaganda since the 1990s, when its leaders testified before Congress against civil rights protections because, they said, homosexuality reduces people’s lifespans. It does not.

In 1999, the group published a booklet called…

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