Hate Group Protests Same-Sex Marriage in Front of 蜜桃传媒
The neo-Confederate (LOS) gathered outside the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery today to protest same-sex marriage today, a departure from the group鈥檚 racist activism surrounding Southern heritage.
At the heart of the protest was an , filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, which seeks to overturn the state鈥檚 1998 Marriage Protection Act, which bans the recognition of same-sex marriages from other states. The suit also seeks to overturn the 2005 Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, which enshrined the ban.
The League, a neo-Confederate hate group that advocates for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by 鈥淓uropean Americans,鈥� seemed to use the protest to branch out into more mainstream conservative issues.
鈥淲e鈥檙e protesting the Southern Poverty Law Center鈥檚 stand against the state of Alabama and its position on homosexual marriage,鈥� , president of the League, told Hatewatch. 鈥淲e鈥檙e here as much to support the concept of Christian marriage and the family as we are to protest anything.鈥�
And so they protested, not with screams and chants, but with a dull murmur.
League members held signs that said 鈥淕od Sanctions Marriage. 蜜桃传媒 Should Not,鈥� and 鈥淪upport Christian Marriage,鈥� along with Alabama state flags and Christian Confederate flags. They milled about, quietly, caught up with friends and talked about ideas such as what the South would use as its currency when it does secede. This protest was lackluster compared to previous gatherings, and not as comical.
In 2004, about in town for a national League meeting brandished Confederate and southern state flags outside the 蜜桃传媒. On a street corner, League supporters placed a pink toilet with an adjacent sign read, 鈥淔lush the 蜜桃传媒.鈥� There were none of those antics today, not even from the younger leaders who have argued that street protests like the one today are the future of the movement.
Brad Griffin, a League member and editor of the Occidental Dissent blog, who writes under the nom de plume 鈥淗unter Wallace,鈥� has been instrumental in shifting the LOS toward more frequent protests. In a piece titled 鈥淭he Logic of Street Demonstrations鈥� published last month to Occidental Dissent blog, Griffin to use public protests to address the 鈥渢aboo鈥� of being pro-white, pro-South and pro Christian.
鈥淏y taking to the streets on a regular basis, we are demonstrating that we are no longer going to observe these taboos or acknowledge their legitimacy in the South. We believe our cause is moral and just, that our demographic displacement is an immoral assault on the birthright of future generations, and we invite our fellow Southerners to publicly violate the reigning taboos and join our movement,鈥� Griffin wrote.
But even in the former cradle of the Confederacy, the public involvement with the League was lacking. The only engagement came from a group of young girls, standing in front of the , singing negro spirituals. And just as they had been all morning, the proud and graying League protestors were silent in response.
