May 4, 2018

AmazonSmile Frowns on Conservatives Because of SPLC

Alliance Defending Freedom was booted from AmazonSmile after SPLC labeled it a “hate group.”

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a non-profit public interest law firm that specializes in defending religious freedom issues, recently found that it had been kicked off AmazonSmile’s list of organizations to which customers can donate small portions of their purchases. The reason ADF was booted — they had been flagged by that infamous leftist organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center, as a “hate group.” Writing to Amazon, ADF president Michael Farris expressed his frustration, stating, “If you are going to rely on a discredited partisan organization like the SPLC to determine who is eligible to participate in AmazonSmile, you should disclose that in your policy and to your customers. Your customers have a right to know that you’ve placed such an organization as the gatekeeper to participation in a charitable program.”

As we have repeatedly noted, the SPLC is anything but objective in its assessment of what constitutes as a “hate group.” Quite the contrary. This hate-hustling organization willfully conflates conservative political views and religious convictions with actual hate groups such as the KKK and neo-Nazis. Any group that holds to a traditional view on marriage or a Biblical view on sexuality has been labeled by the SPLC as a hate group.

And what is ADF’s “crime” that got them tagged as a “hate group” by the SPLC? They are currently representing cake-maker Jack Phillips before the Supreme Court, giving defense for his refusal to make a wedding cake for a homosexual wedding due to his religious conviction. Meanwhile, the biggest abortion provider in the nation, Planned Parenthood, is listed as an eligible AmazonSmile charity recipient. Go figure.

Who We Are

The Patriot Post is a highly acclaimed weekday digest of news analysis, policy and opinion written from the heartland — as opposed to the MSM’s ubiquitous Beltway echo chambers — for grassroots leaders nationwide. More

What We Offer

On the Web

We provide solid conservative perspective on the most important issues, including analysis, opinion columns, headline summaries, memes, cartoons and much more.

Via Email

Choose our full-length Digest or our quick-reading Snapshot for a summary of important news. We also offer Cartoons & Memes on Monday and Alexander’s column on Wednesday.

Our Mission

The Patriot Post is steadfast in our mission to extend the endowment of Liberty to the next generation by advocating for individual rights and responsibilities, supporting the restoration of constitutional limits on government and the judiciary, and promoting free enterprise, national defense and traditional American values. We are a rock-solid conservative touchstone for the expanding ranks of grassroots Americans Patriots from all walks of life. Our mission and operation budgets are not financed by any political or special interest groups, and to protect our editorial integrity, we accept no advertising. We are sustained solely by you. Please support The Patriot Fund today!


The Patriot Post and Patriot Foundation Trust, in keeping with our Military Mission of Service to our uniformed service members and veterans, are proud to support and promote the National Medal of Honor Heritage Center, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, both the Honoring the Sacrifice and Warrior Freedom Service Dogs aiding wounded veterans, the National Veterans Entrepreneurship Program, the Folds of Honor outreach, and Officer Christian Fellowship, the Air University Foundation, and Naval War College Foundation, and the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation. "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for his friends." (John 15:13)

★ PUBLIUS ★

“Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!” —George Washington

Please join us in prayer for our nation — that righteous leaders would rise and prevail and we would be united as Americans. Pray also for the protection of our Military Patriots, Veterans, First Responders, and their families. Please lift up your Patriot team and our mission to support and defend our Republic's Founding Principle of Liberty, that the fires of freedom would be ignited in the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The Patriot Post is protected speech, as enumerated in the First Amendment and enforced by the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, in accordance with the endowed and unalienable Rights of All Mankind.

Copyright © 2024 The Patriot Post. All Rights Reserved.

The Patriot Post does not support Internet Explorer. We recommend installing the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome.