@BlockMachine_AL is a Twitter bot that automatically generates a block list of users who follow people and organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-LGBT extremists and hate groups. You can subscribe to the block list on Block Together here: https://blocktogether.org/show-blocks/FdcUliOL5cQsEwjubRv2oh_bl-tKZgDY2KzXcL7I

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a law firm and civil rights organization that, among other things, tracks the activities of a variety of hateful ideologies in the United States. While the SPLC's list of anti-LGBT hate groups does include several nominally Christian organizations, merely believing that the Bible is against gay marriage is not sufficient for hate group classification. Accordingly, the vast majority of Christian organizations in the US are not hate groups. In the SPLC's own words:

Generally, the SPLC’s listings of these groups is based on their propagation of known falsehoods — claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities — and repeated, groundless name-calling. Viewing homosexuality as unbiblical does not qualify organizations for listing as hate groups. (Source)

Accounts tracked by this bot

This bot is currently tracking the follower lists of the following 32 twitter accounts.

Extremists

You can see a full list of SPLC-designated anti-LGBT extremists here. Some people on the list are either dead or appear to not be on Twitter, and are therefore not tracked by this bot.

Name	Twitter account	Links
Bryan Fischer	@BryanJFischer	SPLC, Wikipedia
David Barton	@DavidBartonWB	SPLC, Wikipedia
David Lane	@GDavidLane	SPLC, Wikipedia
Gary Demar	@garydemar	SPLC, Wikipedia
Lou Engle	@LouEngle	SPLC, Wikipedia
Tony Perkins	@tperkins	SPLC, Wikipedia

Hate groups

This list is an incomplete work in progress. You can see the full list of active SPLC-designated anti-LGBT hate groups here. In-depth profiles of the organizations are given in the links column when available. The SPLC has not published in-depth profiles for all hate groups.

People and organizations in italics are not listed as extremists or hate groups themselves, but are strongly tied to organizations that are. Their specific relationship is given in the notes column.

Name	Twitter account	Links	Notes
American Family Association	@AmericanFamAssc	SPLC, Wikipedia
AFA Action	@AFAAction		Lobbying arm of the American Family Association
Alliance Defending Freedom	@AllianceDefends	SPLC, Wikipedia
Family Research Council	@FRCdc	SPLC, Wikipedia
FRC Action	@FRCAction		Lobbying arm of the Family Research Council
Liberty Counsel	@libertycounsel	SPLC, Wikipedia
Mat Staver	@MatStaver	Wikipedia	Founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel
Traditional Values Coalition	@TVC_CapitolHill	SPLC, Wikipedia
Westboro Baptist Church	@WBCSaysRepent	SPLC, Wikipedia
Americans for Truth about Homosexuality	@PeterLaBarbera	Organization Wikipedia, Founder Wikipedia	Twitter account of the organization's founder and president, Peter LaBarbera
American Vision	@AmericanVision	Wikipedia
ATLAH World Missionary Church	@ATLAHWorldwide	Wikipedia
James David Manning	@DrJamesDManning	Wikipedia	Cheif pastor of ATLAH World Missionary Church
Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM)	@FridayFax	Wikipedia
Austin Ruse	@austinruse	Wikipedia	President of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM)
Chalcedon Foundation	@RJRushdoony	Wikipedia
Faithful Word Baptist Church	@sanderson1611	Wikipedia	Twitter account of the organization's founder and pastor, Steven Anderson
Illinois Family Institute	@ProFamilyIFI	Wikipedia
Illinois Family Action	@ILfamilyaction		Lobbying arm of the Illinois Family Institute
MassResistance	@MassResistance	Wikipedia
Pacific Justice Institute	@PacificJustice	Wikipedia
Public Advocate of the United States	@PublicFreedom	Wikipedia
Eugene Delgaudio	@eugenedelgaudio	Wikipedia	Founder and president of Public Advocate of the United States
SaveCalifornia.com	@savecalifornia	Wikipedia
United Families International	@UFI	Wikipedia
World Congress of Families / International Organization for the Family	@ProFam_Org	Wikipedia

A note about whitelisting

Since some of the Twitter accounts tracked by this bot belong to powerful and influential organizations, they may have some followers that don't "deserve" to be blocked. Therefore, this bot has a very small whitelist of users that it will not add to its block list even if they follow one or more of the tracked accounts. The whitelist mainly consists of reporters and news organizations.