Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, a megachurch in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that is home to Coral Ridge Ministries. (By Jimmy Baikovicius)
(CN) — A Florida ministry urged an 11th Circuit panel Tuesday to hold the Southern Poverty Law Center and Amazon responsible for what it called a discriminatory labeling of the church as a hate group, a designation that has prevented it from fundraising through Amazon’s charitable website.
“We continue to be defamed and we continue to be discriminated against,” attorney David C. Gibbs III told the panel during virtual arguments Tuesday morning. “When you present it as a fact, ‘this is a hate group,’ then they have to be held responsible for that incorrect statement.”