In response to a December 9 NBC News story alleging the Ruth Institute is a “hate group,” the Institute’s President, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse Ph.D., called the charge “an outrage.”
“The Ruth Institute is a global, non-profit organization leading an international, interfaith coalition to defend the family and build a civilization of
love,” Morse said. “If fighting sex abuse, pornography, and divorce makes us a hate group, so be it.
“The Ruth Institute has done two thorough statistical analyses of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church, pulling no punches, sparing no sacred cows. Meanwhile, NBC News has a terrible record on sexual abuse. Ronan Farrow
credibly claims that they ordered him to stop investigating the Harvey Weinstein story.”
The NBC story that provoked Morse’s comments concerned the Paycheck Protections Program, designed to provide relief to small businesses affected by the
coronavirus lockdowns. NBC reported that 14 organizations – designated hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center – got a total of $4.3 million
in disaster relief administered by the Small Business Administration.
“NBC relies on the Southern Poverty Law Center for the ‘hate group’ designation. This just means the Ruth Institute is a group the SPLC hates. Big deal.
They raise a lot of money with their hate-mongering tactics. In 2018, their net assets were a half billion dollars,”
Morse said.
Like NBC, the SPLC has its own credibility problems on sexual issues. According to PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil,
author of the book, Making Hate Pay, SPLC: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC Founder Morris Dees has been accused of harassment and creating a difficult environment for female employees.
The NBC story also quoted “experts” who are “troubled” by these “extremist groups” receiving federal stimulus money.
Morse noted: “The NBC article is a thinly veiled call for more government oversight of these loans. The reporters sought experts who would muse aloud about
whether the government should forgive Paycheck Protection Program loans to these groups subjectively designated as ‘hate groups.’ The Ruth Institute
received roughly $30,000 through the Paycheck Protection Program. That’s a fraction of the funding received by Planned Parenthood affiliates.”
Additionally, according to Reuters,
dozens of strip clubs qualified for between $11.5 million and $27.95 million in COVID disaster relief. “We fight the idea that women are merchandise.
They promote it,” Morse said.
She concluded: “The Ruth Institute has done as much as anyone to keep the issue of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in the public eye. In
addition to our statistical analyses, we have given a platform to victims of clergy sexual abuse. Both the SPLC and NBC are morally compromised on sexual issues. Those creeps have a lot of nerve going after us.”
Jennifer Roback Morse is the author of The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies Are Destroying Lives.
The Ruth Institute is a global, non-profit organization leading an international, interfaith coalition to defend
the family and build a civilization of love.
To schedule an interview with Dr. Morse, contact info@ruthinstitute.org.
