KKK issues “call to arms” over Alabama same-sex marriage ruling
The hate group melts down after a federal court rules an amendment banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional
KEEGAN HANKES, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
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In a latest attempt to capitalize on political and racial controversy, a Ku Klux Klan faction
from Mississippi has initiated a “Call to arms in Alabama” in response
to federal courts ruling that an amendment to the state constitution
banning same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.
The post, which appeared on the United Dixie White Knights’ (UDWK) website and later on Stormfront —
the largest online white supremacist forum — championed Alabama Supreme
Court Justice Roy Moore for defying federal courts and called for
Klansmen to leave their robes behind and take to the streets in protest.
“The
Mississippi Klan salutes Alabama’s chief justice Roy Moore, for
refusing to bow to the yoke of Federal tyranny,” Brent Waller, the
UDKW’s imperial wizard, wrote in a Stormfront post.
“The fudge packers from Hollywood and all major news networks are in
shock that the good people from the heart of Dixie are resisting their
Imperialist, Communist Homosexual agenda!”
Waller’s
reason for his fellow Klansman to wear plain clothes is simple. “We
have made the decision that we don’t want to distract attention away
from the issue, as anytime the Klan rides, we are made the issue by the
zionist controlled media,” he wrote. Not that wearing robes and hoods
has been a consideration before.
Klan
groups in recent months have sought to capitalize on already tense
situations by appearing with a word of commentary and disappearing. Klan
members have called for “corpses” on the Arizona-Mexico border, tried to raise money for the legal defense of the police officer who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and even distributed candy as a recruiting ploy in South Carolina. But their rush to the spotlight this time may be different.
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Alabama on Monday
became the 37th state in the country to recognize same-sex marriage
after a federal judge struck down the “Sanctity of Marriage” amendment
to the state’s constitution as unlawful. Alabama Supreme Court Chief
Justice Roy Moore responded by ordering Alabama probate judges not to
comply with the federal ruling, throwing the state into a heated
controversy involving states’ rights and federal reach.
In
his post, and in subsequent email exchanges with Hatewatch, Waller
speculated as to whether the federal government will send “Jack Booted
thugs” — a comment meant to invoke Civil Rights era struggles and draw
comparisons between the razing of Southern states during the Civil War
and what the Imperial Wizard sees as the destruction of Southern values
through marriage equality.
“We
as White Christians intend to see that no outside agitators bully or
intimidate the White Christian majority in the State of Alabama,” Waller
told Hatewatch on Tuesday. “We salute those like the chief justice for standing against the Immoral, Ungodly and activist Federal Judges.”
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