Well, duh, strike me with a feather, the Family Research Council and the CCC and KKK

Via the Green Knight, who picked it up from Max Blumenthal. Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council (Just Us Justice Sunday) purchased the Ku Klux Klan mailing list in 1996 for $82,000.00.

Tony Perkins spoke to the Louisiana Council of Conservative Citizens on May 19 2001 but declines to answer questions about his ties to the group.

To learn more about this of course one’s next hit is The Southern Poverty Law Center which has written at length on the CCC and notes elected officials who have ties to it.

Neoconfederates, the CCC is a successor organization to the White Citizens Council which fought against desegregation. They’re the ones that raised millions of dollars that funded the small, private, white academies that sprang up around the South during the early days of desegregation.

Tom Parker, Republican candidate for the Supreme Court of Alabama, isn’t shy about touting his conservative credentials. He despises “liberal judges” who are “trying to take God out of public life.” He is an “ardent opponent” of gay marriage, and “a national leader in the fight against Political Correctness.” He underlines his close ties to Christian Right leaders like Phyllis Schlafly and James Dobson.

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center

James Dobson spoke at a protest concerning the Ten Commandments issue in Alabama. Justice Sunday made feeble attempts to compare the fight of Dominionists to that of the civil rights struggle, and James Dobson drew the same parallels in Alabama. At the rally for the monument he invoked Rosa Parks in comparison with the movement to keep the Ten Commandmenets monument.

Dr. Dobson compared the movement to keep the Ten Commandments monument with the struggle of Rosa Parks in 1955. Saying it was “very, very ironic” that the rally was taking place in Montgomery, Ala., the heart of much of the Civil Rights Movement.

No, what is ironic is that the CCC has as its predecessor the White Citizens Council, a hate group steadfastly against desegregation and known also as the “uptown KKK”, and that it is the CCC and associates using the Civil Rights Movement to further their cause, claiming to be suffering the same victimization and prejudices.

Many of the key points Dobson made in his Justice speech were made also in his Alabama speech. He rides the same battle horse in both.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State reports that the CCC includes the Alabama Constitutional Militia, the self-described commander of which told The Huntsville Times they’re a “Christian militia.”

Also appearing at the Alabama rally was then Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed.

Singling out the federal courts and the ACLU, Reed proclaimed that, “You will not, you will not drive faith in God out of our homes, out of our churches, out of our synagogues, out of our courtrooms and out of our public schools ever again.”

I should have known this. Neoconfederates. Unfailingly, a significant association is always going to come up with the Neoconfederacy. Talk about slow on the uptake here.

The fundamentalist takeover of the SBC has explicit parallels to the Christian Coalition’s takeover of the Republican Party in the South. An observer who witnessed both recalled to Bruce Bawer:

They used to be run by country-club types. Then suddenly you’d have two buses full of people show up from a church in Selma, or someplace, and you’d realize your candidate had lost and it wasn’t even close. It was five to one. Who were these people who had shown up out of nowhere? Economically, they were traditional Democrats. But suddenly they’d taken over the local Republican party….exactly how they took over the Southern Baptist Convention. They bused people in by the thousands. The moderates did a poor job of resisting it.

Justice Sunday was hosted by Highview Baptist of Louisville KY, a Southern Baptist Church, Al Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary at Louisville KY also speaking.


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3 responses to “Well, duh, strike me with a feather, the Family Research Council and the CCC and KKK”

  1. Steve Avatar

    Nice job of research. Reed is running down here in GA for LT Guv.

  2. site admin Avatar

    Steve, yeah, I’m aware. Aren’t we the lucky ones!

  3. The Heretik Avatar

    Write On, Jules.

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