Is the Family Research Council a hate group?

On the 22nd of November the controversial Southern Poverty Law Center released an "Intelligence Report" which declared 18 groups to be anti-gay hate groups.  The most controversial item on this list was the Family Research Council, a mainstream conservative group.  Are they actually a hate group and, if so, what does it mean for conservatism?
The thrust of the SPLC's accusation is that FRC relies on and employs anti-gay bigots.  The report names 4 names: former Rep. Tony Perkins, Robert Knight, Dr. Tim Dailey, and Peter Sprigg.  The SPLC appears to have no issue with the other 30 members of the FRC.  It also apparently has no interest in the majority of the FRC's work, which doesn't involve homosexuality.  Knight left the FRC nearly ten years ago so is no longer relevant.  Dr. Dailey is only condemned for the work he did jointly with Sprigg.
Is Peter Sprigg a bigot?  It's an explosive charge to level, but the SPLC is not without evidence.  Sprigg (and Dr. Dailey) wrote a book in 2004 called Getting It Straight, in which they assert that the majority of pedophiles are homosexual and that therefore homosexuals are disproportionately pedophilic.  This is in part a definitional question (does "homosexual" refer to all same-sex attraction, or only adult same-sex attraction?  Can you be a homosexual if you aren't attracted to adults of the same sex?  Is it enough just to self-identify as homosexual or bisexual?) and in part dubious inferential reasoning.  If this is enough to be a bigot, then Sprigg and Dr. Dailey are bigots; if not, then Dr. Dailey is cleared.  Sprigg, though, has also gone on record stating that we should outlaw gay behavior and claimed (with no evidence) that ending Don't Ask Don't Tell would lead to sexual assaults by gay men on straight men.  This is clearly bigoted behavior that represents the ugly side of conservative opposition to homosexuality, and it shouldn't be part of the new Right.  Sprigg should renounce his anti-gay remarks or be disowned by the FRC and by the conservative movement.
What of the FRC's president, Tony Perkins?  Perkins is a tough case- he engaged in some nasty behavior as a politico, but there's no evidence that he really believed in what he was doing, much less that he still believes in it.  His misbehavior consists of two actions: first, when Perkins was a political operative he paid for David Duke's mailing list then filed false disclosure forms to cover it up.  Second, Perkins gave a speech to a notorious white supremacist group.  If FRC chooses to circle the wagons then it can make a plausible argument that Perkins isn't really a bigot; if it wants to be seen as pure and unimpeachable, though, then it should ask Perkins to repudiate his actions or leave.
The FRC is no hate group.  Most of its work is completely innocent and well-intentioned.  It does have a few "bad apples," however, who are spreading hate and fear in a way that doesn't fit with its noble mission.  A small slice of the FRC's output spreads vile myths about homosexuals that more and more Americans are rejecting as untrue.  The proportion of people supporting gay marriage, for example, has nearly doubled in the last five years.  The FRC and other old-guard conservatives need to challenge their own attitudes about gays if they hope to be part of tomorrow's conservatism.