(CNN) -- Accusations of blame abounded Thursday, a day after a 28-year-old man who had volunteered for a center that serves gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people was taken into custody for allegedly shooting a building manager at the headquarters of a Christian conservative group. "Let me be clear that Floyd Corkins was responsible for firing the shot yesterday," Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told reporters in Washington about the suspect. "But Corkins was given a license to shoot an unarmed man by organizations like the Southern Poverty Law Center that have been reckless in labeling organizations hate groups because they disagree with them on public policy."
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"Corkins was given a license to shoot," Family Research Council president says
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He says the Southern Poverty Law Center "should be held accountable"
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The SPLC says it lists the council as a hate group for spreading "propaganda about LGBT people"
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An NYU law professor says "you can't pick and choose what kind of rhetoric to condemn"
@placeholder was using Wednesday's shooting "to pose a false equivalency between the SPLC's criticisms of the FRC and the FRC's criticisms of LGBT people," the SPLC said.