Bonterra Tech used the Southern Poverty Law Center, which names conservative companies and even some Catholic believers as “hate groups.”
By Catholics for Catholics
In a George Orwell type of dystopian mien, a large business refused to work with any company that is censured by a left-wing organization that has been criticized for slandering conservative institutes and churches as “hate groups.”
According to The Daily Wire, an employee of Bonterra Tech, which provides customer relationship management software to nonprofits, refused to work with the Ruth Institute, a company that upholds biblical sexual values because the Southern Poverty Law Center termed it as a hate group.
In an email reviewed by The Daily Wire, an employee of Bonterra Tech wrote, “It pains me to say that we cannot move forward with the Ruth Institute. It makes it even harder as I am aligned with the beliefs of your Organization and I think it’s absolutely RIDICULOUS that the SPLC gets to pick and choose who is a hate group,” the email said.
“Doesn’t make any sense and they should be shut down. My CEO agrees that you shouldn’t be on there, she took it up to our board and they said that is one rule they will not make an exemption on. If an Organization is on the SPLC list, we cannot work with them.”
According to the Daily Wire, a 2024 report to the Senate Commerce Committee, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) showed that Bonterra’s terms of service prohibited it from working with clients that denied “rights to the LGBTQ community,” “a woman’s right to reproductive choice,” “racial justice,” or “climate change.” At the same time EveryAction stipulated that nonprofits it worked with could not be “Not Progressive Aligned,” meaning that they “Can’t be a Republican org,” “Can’t go against LGBT+,” and “Can’t be against pro-choice.”
In addition, Bonterra also declined to renew contracts with Wisconsin Right to Life, Idaho Family Policy Center, Deaconess Pregnancy & Adoptions, and Stand for Health Freedom.
Cruz thinks that Bonterra weaponized its policies to deny conservatives access to its services. “My committee’s investigation exposed what we long expected: Big Tech companies like Bonterra have used vague, broadly worded terms of service agreements as a political weapon to deny conservatives access to essential business technology,” Cruz told The Daily Wire. “Conservative companies should not be forced to choose between staying silent or potentially shutting down.”
The Daily Wire wrote that Cruz is introducing the “TERMS Act,” legislation he said that would challenge “the unchecked power” of “Big Tech oligarchs and protect the right of free speech for every American business targeted by Big Tech censorship.”
The FBI under the Biden administration used a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center that named traditionalist Catholics as a hate group to investigate them in 2023.
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