Some readers scoff when I link anti-gay bigots and organizations to the larger realm of white supremacist organizations which have historically targeted gays, non-Christians and non-whites with their divisive vitriol. But, if one tacks the leading "family values" organizations that incessantly disseminate anti-gay propaganda, it quickly becomes readily apparent that their hate and derision extends far beyond the realm of LGBT citizens. Indeed, today's anti-gay, "family values" organizations are becoming synonymous with a modern day version of the KKK. The Human Rights Campaign has connected the dots in Maryland and revealed that the largest individual supporter of the anti-gay marriage campaign in that state has ties to both white supremacists groups and secessionist organizations. Today's Republicans mat protest that they are not racists and homophobes, but the objective data indicates otherwise. Here are highlights from HRC:
HRC is calling on the Maryland Marriage Alliance to return the $10,000 donation of Michael Peroutka, an active white supremacist and secessionist sympathizer who was one of the three largest individual donors to the campaign against marriage equality in Maryland. HRC also calls on the Maryland Catholic Conference, which played a leading role in founding the Maryland Marriage Alliance, to publicly denounce Peroutka’s donation. Peroutka is an active member of the League of the South, a neo-Confederate, secessionist organization labeled an “explicitly racist” hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Filings made available by the Maryland Board of Elections indicate that Michael Peroutka donated $10,000 to MMA on October 31, 2012.
The Maryland Marriage Alliance was founded and funded by the Maryland Catholic Conference and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
According to the SPLC, the League of the South “believes the ‘godly’ nation it wants to form should be run by an ‘Anglo-Celtic’ (read: white) elite that would establish a Christian theocratic state and politically dominate blacks and other minorities.” The organization says that its relentless pursuit of white supremacy is “healthy and Biblical.”
League of the South President Michael Hill has written that white people possess a “God-ordained superiority” and that African Americans “have never created anything approximating a civilization.” Its Florida chapter chairman, Michael Tubbs, is, according to the SPLC, a convicted “Aryan” terrorist who amassed a stockpile of weapons and explosives along with a list of targets including businesses owned by Jews and blacks.
Peroutka appeared along with Hill and Tubbs in front of Confederate flags at the League of the South conference, said that he was grateful for the organization’s endorsement of his fringe 2004 presidential campaign and remarked that “If this be hate, let's make the most of it.”
He has also appeared on a white supremacist radio show called The Political Cesspool. The Montgomery Advertiser reported that one of the bedrock principles of the show Peroutka appeared on is the need to “grow the percentages of Whites in the world relative to other races.”
NOM is no stranger to exploiting race as a means of advancing its agenda. Documents obtained by HRC earlier this year revealed NOM’s racially divisive strategy to “drive a wedge between gays and blacks” and to “interrupt this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity - a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation.”
It is truly frightening to realize what the "family values" crowd and their political whores in the Republican Party have become: active racist, homophobes, anti-women extremists and anti-immigrant zealots. Th only thing some of them haven done is to openly organize their own equivalent to the Nazi Schutzstaffel, a/k/a the SS. Or perhaps they have and we just don't know it yet.
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