So anyone watching the news the past few days will know about the shooting at the Family Research Council. Now personally, I do not at all like this group in terms of their anti-gay marriage stance. Some gay rights advocates say they can be classed as a hate group. I don't know a whole lot about their actual activities myself, so I won't go so far as to call them that, and with these types of groups it depends. Some conservatives are just anti-gay marriage, while others will present themselves as just anti-gay marriage, but behind-the-scenes are actually viscerally anti-gay period, pushing for legislation behind-the-scenes that is very anti-gay.
Some say this is what the FRC does. Well as said, I haven't researched it, but either way, hate group of not, I think it is a complete double-standard of the worst kind that the media has barely bothered to report the shooting there! If that had been a Tea Party member shooting (or trying to shoot) up let's say a Planned Parenthood, I'd be willing to bet a large sum of money that it would have been 24/7 in the news cycle, with talk about the way groups like the Tea Party breed hatred, the dangers of right-wing hatred, and so forth. We saw what happened with the Gabriel Giffords shooting by Jared Loughner, a man who cited The Communist Manifesto as one of his favorite books. Despite this, the general "climate of hate" was blamed for it, with said climate being blamed on the right-wing (even though the Left continue to participate in such harsh rhetoric (not saying the Right don't do it too, but the Left do it a lot as well)), and Sarah Palin accused of having influenced Mr. Loughner (!!!).
Yes, the media has reported the incident, butI think nothing like they would have had this been a right-wing nutcase as opposed to a left-wing nutcase.
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