Can you talk a little bit about John Tanton and the SPLC?
Well, I mean first of all, a couple of facts. To say that we’re funded by John Tanton is kind of like saying we’re funded by Elizabeth Jones of Salisbury, North Carolina. The fact is that John Tanton has given us less than a half of a percent of our income. So, that’s kind of crazy to say we are sort of a Tanton funded organization. It’s the kind of thing you get into if you go through the entire funder list — that you are responsible for everything a funder has ever done or said. That’s guilt by association. Every since Aristotle, it’s been considered in the western world to be inappropriate. Now having said that, the Southern Poverty Law Center has done a real hatchet job on John Tanton. I’ve known John Tanton since the 1970s. He is a predominantly liberal environmentalist who has very, very strong concerns about national community and culture — which is a more conservative position and makes him hard to classify. John Tanton has pretty much been one of those people who I would say
