KKK Issues 'Call to Arms' Over Gay Marriage Ruling Keegan Hankes - Southern Poverty Law Center
go to original February 14, 2015

The fight for same-sex marriage is underway in Alabama, with some state judges defying federal rulings to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. JT Addaway, who went undercover as a “Redneck News” reporter, filed his own humorous take on the consequences of gay marriage, taking viewers on a tour of his backyard that only found some suspicious-looking squirrels. (RT America)

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!”

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