The Southern Poverty Law Center, which caused a little embarrassment to House Speaker Robbie Wills earlier today, is getting far broader attention for its labeling of the Family Research Council a hate group for its anti-gay speech. That puts the Family Research Council in a league with the KKK. (This is the national group, which, though wholly allied in spirit and shares James Dobson as a founder, is not legally connected to Arkansas’s Family Council.)

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