A conservative evangelical group is encouraging parents to boycott “Mix It Up at Lunch Day” [1] on Oct. 30 by keeping their children home from school, the Huffington Post reports. The program was launched 11 years ago [2] by the Southern Poverty Law Center [3] as a means of breaking up social cliques and curbing bullying. The American Family Association, however, claims it represents “a nationwide push to promote the homosexual lifestyle in public schools [4],” reports the New York Times. The SPLC has recently added the association to its national list of active hate groups [5] — a list that also includes neo-Nazis, black separatists and Holocaust deniers. Meanwhile, AFA leaders have responded by calling the law center a hate group for oppressing Christian students and trying to shut down groups that oppose homosexuality…