By Post Editorial Board
This brief was first posted September 10, 2017, at NYPost.com.
The “hate-list-generating Southern Poverty Law Center already has the media firmly in its pocket,” notes Charlotte Allen at The Weekly Standard,
“and now corporate America seems to be jumping” on the bandwagon. Increasingly, companies are “trying to cut off the financial livelihoods of organizations
that the SPLC has branded as haters because their policy positions don’t accord with whatever the SPLC deems politically correct.” Vanco Payment Solutions,
a credit-card processor, “abruptly canceled its services to the nonprofit Ruth Institute”: The SPLC claims the group’s “focus on heterosexual marriage”
is a cover for a campaign “against LGBT people in general.” Meanwhile, Apple, JP Morgan, Bank of America, Pfizer, Lyft and Newman’s Own have all become
SPLC donors – even as the group has parked $69 million “in offshore hedge funds, a common tax dodge.”
