Anti-transgender fliers claiming to be from a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan were distributed in at least one Dothan, Alabama neighborhood this weekend.
“It is a free speech issue. There is no threat put in there, no call to arms. It looks like they are asking for donations and putting out a political agenda instead of a hate-based one,” Dothan Police Capt. Will Benny said.
“We are kind of monitoring the situation right now,” he said.
AL.com reports:
Benny called the neighborhood in question quiet and “certainly not a hotbed for Klan activity.”The flier from the Loyal White Knights of the KKK called being transgender “an abomination, according to the King James Bible.”The flier quotes Deuteronomy 22:5: “A woman shall not wear that pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment. For all that do are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.”Anyone confused by their gender should “use a tree out in the back yard,” the flier states.Dothan police said the dissemination of the fliers isn’t necessarily illegal, but a resident could file a complaint for littering.
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