FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Katrina Lantos Swett—founder of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice and a co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit, which took place in Washington, D.C., earlier this week—responded to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s attack on the summit in a statement to The Daily Signal on Friday.
The SPLC, a left-leaning advocacy group notorious for putting mainstream conservative and Christian organizations on a “hate map” alongside KKK chapters, warned that some of the summit’s sponsors “have ties to anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant extremist organizations and the global far-right network.”
Lantos Swett, a lifelong Democrat and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, co-chaired the Jan. 30-31 summit alongside Republican Sam Brownback, a former Kansas governor, senator, and ambassador-at-large for religious freedom…
