City To Permit KKK Rally Against Gay Marriage

[kweerwolf]

The city has given permission of the Ku Klux Klan to hold a rally on Saturday, November 5. The group says they want to have a pro-family values rally in front of City Hall that afternoon to get voters to vote against gay marriage.

The city has reserved the Austin City Hall's south plaza on Lavaca and Cesar Chavez from 1-3 pm on Saturday, November 5.

In an e-mail to the city for permission, a representative for the American White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan wrote: "Our speech will not be inflammatory, but we all know the reputation of the name of the KKK, so we expect anti-Klan demonstrators to be there who may become violent. We certainly don't want any of our people hurt nor any city officials. We just want to come and encourage people to vote for Christian Family Values and against legalized homosexual marriage in the state of Texas."

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=4020533&nav=0s3d

(Nothing says you're on the wrong side of an issue better than having the KKK agree with you.)

[MuseRider]

1. Could that look

any worse? Strange (or not so strange) bedfellows. "Christian Family values" and the KKK.

[Midnight Rambler]

2. Give 'em enough rope

It's like that episode of "South Park" where Chef went on the crusade to change the town flag, which shows a lynching. The whole town is fighting the change (remind anyone of another flag?) until the local Klan rallies to their cause. Then they all decide that if the Klan likes it, it's probably not a good idea.

I hope they publicize the shit out of this. Expose the RW for what they are.

[goclark]

3. That needs to filter to my Black Community

so that 2% that are voting for Bush can drop to zero plus the

CCC = Colin, Clarence and Condi.

[DaveColorado]

6. Fuck that's my hometown

When we talk about "Christian family values" at least we know what that means now if we didn't already.

[ET Awful]

4. So . . . a bunch of men in dresses are going to protest gay marriage?

I wonder if they see the irony in that.

[MemphisTiger]

7. I wonder if they know the thread count on their sheets

used to make their hoods... that would be irony.

[swimmernsecretsea]

17. Oh no, you did not!

That's just awful, making me giggle when I'm trying to be all serious.

[nickyt]

8. Ha ha!!

[William769]

5. Any comment I make here will sound racist

So for once I shall refrain.

[Siyahamba]

12. I have to admit, I can't help but think...

If it was a pro-white rally, the city would not have given permission.

[xultar]

9. Well whaddaya know KKK and Black preachers have something in common.

Remeber the march against Gay marriage in ATL by a Black preacher who I think is on the DL?

[Stevious]

16. go for it, dude.

"If the KKK opposes gay marriage, I would ride with them," Reverend Gregory Daniels, a black minister from Chicago, announced from the pulpit in February.

[BOSSHOG]

10. Christian Family Values - Divorce, Incest, Spousal Abuse

I sincerely believe the boys with there little pee-pees and their sheets protest way too much. Gays are the cause of the divorce rate amongst heterosexuals? And please someone tell me where in the Constitution it forbids homosexuals from marrying one another.

[IndianaGreen]

14. and men wearing sheets standing around a burning cross holding hands with

one another.

Hmmm....

[kurth]

11. But it's ok to marry your own sister

and live happily ever after in the trailer.

[kevinbgoode]

13. Good ! Let the righteous wingnuts see just how bent

their consciences are about this issue. They KNOW this isn't about simply defining "marriage" against some non-existent threat. This is to entomb forever the right to deny us the ability to make health decisions, run our own funerals, and leave our property to who we choose.

THAT is what this is all about. And the majority of the state are, in my opinion, no better than the Klan on this matter.

[TaleWgnDg]

15. Well, there you go. Austin couldn't deny this permit b/c to do so

.
Well, there you go. Austin couldn't deny this permit b/c to do so would cause an unwinnable lawsuit and a stupid (and costly) expenditure of city monies for such litigation.

That being said, it does leave the KKK to make total and complete *sses of themselves, yet, again in modern America. Is that a mere wish? That is, if modern America doesn't tie into the KKK's attempt to make hay (and money) out of the current anti-same-sex marriage ground swell in conservative corners of America. After all, it was the Texas sodomy law (and TX arrest) in Lawrence v. Texas that the U.S. Supreme Court found unconstitutional u/ the liberty clause.

In an 1867 convention held in Nashville, the Klan was formalized as a national organization under a "Prescript" written by George Gordon, a former Confederate brigadier general. The Prescript states as the Klan's purposes:


First: To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs and outrages of the lawless, the violent and the brutal; to relieve the injured and oppressed; to succor the suffering and unfortunate, and especially the widows and orphans of the Confederate soldiers.

Second: To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States ...

Third: To aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws, and to protect the people from unlawful seizure, and from trial except by their peers in conformity with the laws of the land.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

After all, the KKK is an organization of horrendous opportunism no matter how dark or rank its methodology or end result. Will it attempt to further revive itself by bashing gays u/ the familiar guise of "family values?" "traditional values?" "religious morals?" as have other reactionary uber-neocons?
.

[Stevious]

18. Governor comments on KKK plans

Governor comments on KKK plans
10:24 AM CDT on Wednesday, October 26, 2005

KVUE News

Texas Governor Rick Perry commented about the Ku Klux Klan Tuesday and their plans to hold a rally in Austin next month.

The Klansmen say they will come to drum up support for a Texas amendment to the constitution that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

One of the amendment's biggest supporters is Governor Perry who voted early Tuesday in favor of Proposition 2. He says the Klan has a right to its opinions despite its reputation as a hate group.

"As long as they don't break any laws of the state or the City of Austin -- relative to parades and what have you -- they have every right to state their pro or con on a vast array of issues," Perry said.

Austin police will provide security during the event to keep a buffer between Klan members and people protesting the group.

See that, even the haters of the KKK are given equal protection.


:wtf:

[David Van Os]

19. Texas AG candidate speaks out on the Hate Amendment

On November 5, the hooded bigots of the Ku Klux Klan will descend on Austin to march in support of the passage of Proposition 2. These masked shock troops of hate do Texans a favor in exposing the real meaning and significance of the proposed amendment in all its shining glory. There could be no greater barometer of what is really at stake in the vote on Proposition 2. The Klan does not show up anywhere unless it is to support bigotry and hate. Never before has the Klan shown up to support passage of a proposed amendment to the Bill of Rights of the Texas Constitution, because never before has there been such an organized attempt to enshrine the Klan’s brand of hate in the noble charter of liberty and democracy of the people of Texas.

The Bill of Rights of our Texas Constitution of 1876 is one of the greatest charters of individual human rights on the face of the earth. Every Texan who loves our state should be personally offended at this disgusting effort to use it as a forum for the propagation of hate. I know that I am.

Every Texan should also be appalled that the lawyer who has the greatest responsibility to defend the Constitutional rights of the people of Texas, the state Attorney General, instead allies himself with the prophets of hate, as Attorney General Greg Abbott does in his public letter of October 27, 2005, in support of Proposition 2. I know that I am, and I know that Texans are entitled to a lawyer for the people who understands that every Texas citizen should have equal legal respect as a 100% equal part owner of our Constitutional democracy.

The world will be watching Texas in the vote on Proposition 2. Fellow Texans, let’s show the world what we’re made of. Take a stand against hate. Take a stand against the Ku Klux Klan. Take a stand against politicians who ally themselves with the Klan. Take a stand for liberty and democracy. Show the power of Texans’ support of our Constitution. Show the power of your vote. Vote down Proposition 2.

David Van Os
Democratic Candidate
For Texas Supreme Court 2006

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[kweerwolf]

21. Eeeeewwww! That's baaaaaa-aaaaad!

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