KKK Group Issues ‘Call To Arms’ Supporting Alabama Chief Justice

Members of the Ku Klux Klan march, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2004, through the streets of Sharpsburg, Md. A group of nine participants gathered at a community park near Antietam National Battlefield. They were outnumbered b... Members of the Ku Klux Klan march, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2004, through the streets of Sharpsburg, Md. A group of nine participants gathered at a community park near Antietam National Battlefield. They were outnumbered by more than two dozen police in riot gear who kept the Klansmen away from scores of people gathered in a downtown intersection. (AP Photo/The Journal, Jason Turner) MORE LESS
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Soon after Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore ordered Alabama probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group issued a “call to arms” supporting Moore.

“The Mississippi Klan salutes Alabama’s chief justice Roy Moore, for refusing to bow to the yoke of Federal tyranny. The Feds have no authority over individual States marriage laws,” the United Dixie White Knights’ Imperial Wizard, Brent Waller wrote, wrote in a post on the group’s website and on the white supremacist forum Stormfront.

“We call upon all Klansman and White Southern Nationalist to help in the massive protest’s coming, Not by wearing your colors, but by joining in with the Christian community’s protests that are surly coming against tyrannical Federal judges,” Waller said.

However, the group realized its support may have made an implication about its relationship with Moore and clarified that he is not a member of the Klu Klux Klan.

“The UDWK has read many posts in the media put out mostly by Homosexual reporters and Atheists that claim Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is a member of the KKK, and activly sought and gained our support. To answer in short, these are lies and typical of that crowd. We simply agree with anyone, who stands against Tyranny, stands for the word of God, and believes in the American Constitution as it was originally written,” Waller wrote on the group’s website.

“We regret any problems our post may have caused the Chief Justice or his Family. Roy Moore is not a Klansman, but he is a man, who believes in God,” Waller continued. “This Country is sick of the spineless people who put out such lies. We need more Justices who do not see the Constitution as a living breathing document to be shreded (sic) and Amended at will.”

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the United Dixie White Knights is a KKK faction in Mississippi, but the SPLC does not list the group as an active Ku Klux Klan group.

This post has been updated.

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  1. Well now, that’s an awkward situation.

  2. Avatar for meri meri says:

    Of course they’re not an “active” group. All that standing and marching and shit.

    You have any idea how much work goose stepping is?

  3. What are things coming to? Even that Klan doesn’t want to claim their own

  4. Gotta protect those fellow travelers.

    Just sayin.

  5. If you find yourself standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Klan it may be time to re-evaluate your position.

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