Christian ministry sues for defamation over ‘hate group’ designation
The Christian pro-family organization D. James Kennedy Ministries is filing a defamation lawsuit against the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center for labeling it a “ hate group .” D. James Kennedy Ministries (DJMK), formerly known as Coral Ridge Ministries, is among dozens of organizations opposing the LGBTQ agenda, radical Islam, and uncontrolled immigration that have been tarred as “hate” organizations by the SPLC, which is now receiving millions of dollars in new funding in the wake of the recent racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia . The organizations are listed alongside racist and anti-Semitic extremist groups like Aryan Nation and the Ku Klux Klan . The lawsuit, filed August 10 in federal District Court in Alabama, charges the SPLC with “trafficking in false or misleading descriptions of the services offered under the Ministry's trademarked name, and for defamation pursuant to Alabama common law arising from the publication and distribution of in