America seems to be losing its moral compass.

Still, most of us are hopeful that some things will hold firm against the tidal wave of depravity washing over the country. Then again, cultural Marxism is designed to not only change but destroy everything in its path.

This includes obliterating the very idea that parents have a right to protect their children from Drag Queen Story Hour, school lessons about gender fluidity, pornographic books in their schools, and LGBTQXYZ ideology dressed up as cartoon characters and puppet shows. And now, a group of mothers coming together to protect their children is under attack from none other than the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Of course, the money-grubbing leftist reprobates at the SPLC have always targeted conservative values, traditions, and institutions. For that reason, the mainstream media often refers to the disgraced organization as an authoritative source on a range of issues. Indeed, if the SPLC makes a statement or updates its “hate map,” the Leftmedia practically trips over itself to report it.

But now the SPLC appears to have outdone itself. How? By placing parental rights in the same extremist category as the Ku Klux Klan, which it did when it labeled Moms for Liberty a hate group.

We’re not sure what the Moms did to earn this condemnation, but all it takes to end up on the SPLC’s hate list is being conservative, espousing a belief in two genders, or publicly supporting traditional family values such as marriage between a man and a woman.

Or, in this case, simply wanting to keep drag queens away from kids is considered hateful. No one is safe from the Left’s assault on our children.

A cursory look at the 100,000-member Moms for Liberty website reveals nothing that might lead a reasonable person to label it a hate group. As the group’s mission statement explains, these moms are “dedicated to fighting for the survival of America by unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.”

Perhaps SPLC has been triggered by former president Donald Trump and presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, both of whom have pledged to speak at the upcoming Moms for Liberty summit.

In any case, Senator Ted Cruz laid into the SPLC for it: “I’m gonna say right now the SPLC is a radical left-wing hate group. I’m going to use that term. They hate you. They hate me. They hate America. They hate conservatives. They hate the Constitution. They hate the Bill of Rights. They hate families. They hate moms. They hate dads. They hate anyone who stands up for this country. And I gotta say for the SPLC to go after Moms for Liberty is disgusting.”

Elsewhere this week, a group of Muslim parents in Maryland protested against public schools preventing parents from opting their kids out of a sexualized curriculum. The response? A Montgomery County council member called them white supremacists.

As one might expect, the SPLC doesn’t bother with what’s happening on the Left. Even after cofounder Morris Dees and other executives were fired over internal complaints about sexual harassment and racial discrimination, and one of its staff (antifa) attorneys was charged with attacking police officers, the organization continues to warn the rest of us about the dangers of parental rights while turning a blind eye to what’s happening to our children.

As The Daily Signal reports: “It does not mention how many on the Left champion the idea that children should be able to identify with a gender opposite their biological sex, hide that identity from their parents, and even obtain life-altering drugs without parental consent. Instead, it acts as though the parental rights movement emerged in a vacuum, or worse, is motivated by hatred.”

The SPLC may not have any decency or credibility, but it does have plenty of money.

“The people who run it are grifters,” writes Power Line’s John Hinderaker. “For a ‘poverty’ organization it has a remarkable amount of money stashed in offshore accounts. SPLC literally doesn’t know what to do with all of the money that rich people and corporations shower on it. I am hoping defamation lawsuits can take up the slack.”

Thus far, no one has been able to take on the SPLC in court and win. And let’s be honest: Winning a defamation lawsuit against one extremist organization isn’t going to solve a problem that’s more pervasive than we might like to admit.

Regardless, groups like Moms for Liberty need to keep up the good work. They’re making a real difference where it counts, and they should wear the SPLC’s label of hate not only as a badge of honor but as a sign that the tide may be turning against those who prey on our children.