The American Family Association is a well known hate group and were officially declared as such by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2010. They are habitual offenders when it comes to anti-gay rhetoric. They are the "Puppet Masters" of One Million Moms. They spread “propagation of known falsehoods" and "demonizing propaganda" about homosexuality. They support criminalization of homosexuality; lobby against same-sex marriage, and are staunchly opposed to equal-rights and hate-crime legislation.

Online bigotry is a tough challenge.

The internet has become the prime method of communication. This major shift has lead to unprecedented connectivity between groups and people.  It is our most powerful tool for sharing information, but it can also allow people with more extreme and hateful viewpoints to meet and exchange rhetoric on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.

It is easier than ever for hate groups to virally recruit others to help fuel stereotypes that celebrate violence and segregation. While these openly racist, oppressive views are generally not tolerated in our society social networking tools have enabled overtly racist individuals, who would have otherwise remained on the periphery of society, to form hate-centered communities and discussion forums online. Hate of culture, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, values and beliefs different than their own.

Unfortunately bigotry is alive and well in our society. One of the most targeted groups on the Internet is LGBT communities.   Though hate sites are no doubt infiltrating the Internet in a serious way, I feel we can at least stop the spreading of hateful ideologies from this organization.

I just created a petition: facebook: Take down the American Family Association's FB page., because I care deeply about this very important issue.

I'm trying to collect 100 signatures, and I could really use your help.

To read more about what I'm trying to do and to sign my petition, click here:
http://www.change.org/petitions/facebook-take-down-the-american-family-associations-fb-page?share_id=zKNHtThcKm&

More about AFA:

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2011/winter/afa_quotes

Bryan Fischer, a nationally syndicated Christian radio host, has a long history of anti-gay activism. In 2009, he began garnering national attention after he was hired by the American Family Association (AFA), which the Southern Poverty Law Center listed as an anti-gay hate group in 2010. Since joining the AFA as director of issue analysis for government and public policy, Fischer has used the group's website and its radio network to promote outrageous and false claims about LGBT people, Muslims, Native Americans and African Americans. Despite Fischer's extreme views – like blaming gay men for the Holocaust, calling for the criminalization of homosexuality, and calling for the banning of Muslim immigration to the U.S. – prominent conservatives continue to appear on Fischer's radio show.

In His Own Words
"Homosexuals are rarely monogamous and have as many as 300 to 1,000 sexual partners over the course of a lifetime. … [T]he risk of sexual abuse in a homosexual household is much greater than in a heterosexual household."
– Bryan Fischer Web post, "The Truth about Gay Marriage and Civil Unions," 2006

"It is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security."
– Bryan Fischer Web post, "No More Muslims in the U.S. Military," 2009

"Homosexuality gave us Adolph Hitler, and homosexuals in the military gave us the Brown Shirts, the Nazi war machine and six million dead Jews."
– Bryan Fischer Web post, "Homosexuality, Hitler, and ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell,'" 2010

"[T]he most compassionate thing we can do for Americans is to bring a halt to the immigration of Muslims into the U.S. This will protect our national security and preserve our national identity, culture, ideals and values. Muslims, by custom and religion, are simply unwilling to integrate into cultures with Western values and it is folly to pretend otherwise. In fact, they remain dedicated to subjecting all of America to sharia law and are working ceaselessly until that day of Islamic imposition comes."
– Bryan Fischer Web post, "Time to Restrict Muslim Immigration to the U.S., Send Them Back Home," 2010

"Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture."
– Bryan Fischer Web post, "Native Americans Morally Disqualified Themselves from the Land," 2011

"Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. … We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits."
– Bryan Fischer Web post, "Jesus Groomed His Apostles for Political Office," 2011