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ARTICLE · 19 SEPTEMBER 2018

Lanham Act Complaint By Designated Hate Group Fails

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Liberty Counsel, a Christian organization which, according to its mission statement, is dedicated to "restoring the Culture by Advancing Religious Freedom ...

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Liberty Counsel, a Christian organization which, according to its mission statement, is dedicated to "restoring the Culture by Advancing Religious Freedom, the Sanctity of Human Life and the Family," brought an action against Guidestar, a nonprofit organization that maintains an extensive online directory of profiles and information on other nonprofits.  After the Southern Poverty Law Center (another nonprofit) designated Liberty Counsel as a hate group, GuideStar added a banner to Liberty Counsel's online profile stating that the organization "was flagged as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center."

SPLC designates Liberty Counsel as a hate group on the basis of the organization's openly anti-LGBT ideology.  The SPLC page dedicated to Liberty Counsel includes quotations from Liberty Counsel's own website and leaders.  However, Liberty Counsel disputed SPLC's characterization of it as a hate group and brought an action against GuideStar under the Lanham Act

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Originally published by the New York Legal Ethics Reporter

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