Amazon removes Family Research Council from its charitable giving program
dismissed. In 2018, the program removed Alliance Defending Freedom, a right-wing legal organization that has challenged several LGBTQ-friendly laws and policies in various states, based on the SPLC’s classification of ADF as a “hate group.”“The SPLC has labeled some of the mainstream conservative organizations it disagrees with as ‘hate groups’ and publishes their names in a directory alongside real hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis,” Kay James, the president of the Heritage Foundation, wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Times.