Fred Phelps is apparently too extreme for the Ku Klux Klan.
Here’s what they say on their website:
News Release
Disclaimer :
NOTE: The Ku Klux Klan, LLC. has not or EVER will have ANY connection with The “Westboro Baptist Church”. We absolutely repudiate their activities.
Actually, that’s really not too surprising. Phelps has no redeeming qualities whatsoever. But what surprised me over the weekend, while I was reading the Ku Klux Klan’s website, was that on the issue of same-sex marriage, they’re to the left of the official platform position of the Republican Party.
On same-sex marriage (click here for their full statement), they say:
We define Marriage as: a religious solemnization of vows between one man and one woman. Even those performed by a Justice of the Peace or Judge are not, by our understanding “marriages” but rather civil ceremonies (unions). We see no issue with civil unions for homosexuals or those who choose to avoid Holy Wedlock.
In other words, the Klan believes that “marriages” are performed by churches. “Civil unions” are performed by government. A justice of the peace does not perform a marriage, they claim, just a civil union.The legal rights we have come from the civil union. And it’s OK for gays and lesbians to get the same civil union straight people get when they take out a license at city hall.
And that’s exactly what the gay and lesbian community has been arguing since the marriage debate began. Separate civil marriage from religious marriage.
Now, just in case anyone thinks they’re embracing the LGBT community, they’re not. Their membership requirements state, “Under NO circumstances will we accept for membership: homosexuals, atheists, or those who have been found mentally insane.” I’d get tossed out on several other counts. There’s that Jewish thing. And dating people of other races thing.
I guess my favorite part of the website is where they explain how accepting gays goes against “Judeo-Christian values.” Hmmm … I wonder how they explain Israel recognizing same-sex marriages performed where they are legal? Or isn’t Israel Judeo enough for them?
“…or those who have been found mentally insane.”
Shouldn’t that pretty much eliminate the current membership?
And why in the world do you spend your weekend perusing the Klan’s website? There has to be some lint under the bad that needs to be vacuumed or a floor to mop or something.
I can’t think of two groups who deserve each other more.
They should all meet in the catholic church basement for a pot luck with the priests.
The KKK isn’t any different than the Mormon enterprise, Catholic corporation, or the Evangelical mega franchises. They’re religion is nothing without it’s scapegoat. It cannot exist without it’s racism, sexism, and homophobia. Scapegoat contemporary religion is disgusting, and so are it’s members!