text: Making the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) hate group list may mean you are a hate group or it may mean you rubbed Morris Dees and/or Joe Levin the wrong way. Both are trial lawyers.
  
  In 2012, black pastors confronted the SPLC  for smearing as "hate groups" pro-family organizations opposed to homosexual behavior.
  
  SPLC considers the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) a "hate group", because it opposes illegal immigration and uses demonstrations as a method.
  
  Traditionalist Catholics are another SPLC hate group.
  
  I would steer away from them as your sole source for who and who is not reliable.