“The AFA doesn’t hate anyone,” AFA spokesman Brian Fisher told LifeSiteNews.com in an e-mail. “The real hate in all this debate is coming from the SPLC and is directed toward people of faith. The real hate group here is the SPLC.”
One Huffington Post writer argued that Perry's event was both "violating the U.S. Constitution" and a plot to use the "dark side to prayer" to foment political upheaval in the mold of Nazism.