Floyd Corkins, who attempted to commit mass murder at the Family Research Council, was motivated to attack by the Southern Poverty Law Center...

CNS reports: On August 15, 2012 Floyd Lee Corkins II attempted to kill as many people as he could at the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.  Floyd Corkins was a pro-gay political activist. He told investigators that “he wanted to kill the people in the building and then smear a Chick-fil-A sandwich in their face[s].” Corkins planned rampage was fortunately stopped by Security Guard Leo Johnson (who was also shot by Corkins in the attack).  

Floyd Corkins' crime was motivated by the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Hate" List...

But how did this would-be assassin fix on the Family Research Council as his target? According to the government’s filing, Corkins used the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to identify FRC as an anti-gay organization, when FRC is actually a pro-family organization championing faith, family and freedom. In fact, the SPLC annually creates a list of organizations that it targets for opprobrium by placing them on its “Hate Map.” The Map is quite a production. It is released annually to much fanfare and is posted online. Listed organizations are then located geographically on maps of the fifty states plus the District of Columbia. 

It is the intention of the SPLC to fix animus and hostility on the organizations it places on its Hate Map. Many of these groups are part of racist or supremacist entities, but recently the SPLC places groups that oppose expanded immigration policies on the Map. Finally, it now includes some groups that oppose liberalized standards of sexual morality and the redefinition of marriage. There is no resemblance of such groups to violent, extremist organizations. But, that is the point. The SPLC wants to associate groups that have voiced moral objections to same-sex marriage with groups like the Skinheads. It is a powerful campaign of defamation, bullying, and destruction. 

The SPLC is an organization fanning the flames of hate.