A League of Their Own: A Look Inside the Christian Defense League
by David Boylan [2004]
The United States during the 1950s experienced an unparalleled growth of extremist organizations from the John Birch Society on the right to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee on the left. The heating up of the Cold War, the Supreme Court’s [...]
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// Religion has been used for thousands of years to mask hate and prejudice. ”Spirituality” still serves as a convenient excuse for violence and other forms of antisocial behavior. All that is needed is a little false piety; coupled with liberal doses of self-induced ignorance and blind devotion to ”the truth.” Even the most loathsome attitudes [...] Christian Identity is the name of a religious movement uniting many of the white supremacist groups in the United States. Identity’s teachers promote racism and sometimes violence. James von Brunn’s father, Elmer, was superintendent of Scullin Steel Mill. During WWII he designed, and supervised a 40mm shell plant for the U.S. government in Houston, Texas. His wife Hope Wenneker von Brunn, educated at Hosmer Hall, was a homemaker and accomplished pianist. They had two children.. Arnold Benjamin Murray, pastor of Shepherd’s Chapel : Gravette, Ark., was ordained to the Office of Minister ‘agreeable to the laws governing ordination in the Soldiers of the Cross..’ by Roy E. Gillaspie, D.Th. of Bellflower, California on April 30th, 1958. Assisting were John Alvin Lovell, D.D. of Dallas, Texas and Oliver Kenneth Goff, D.D. [...] Oliver Kenneth Goff claimed to be a former member of the Communist Party [1936-1939] turned Christian. In 1939 he volunteered to give testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee about supposed firsthand knowledge of a major Communist conspiracy to take over America. This began a long career of giving testimony before different government bodies and [...] Roy E. Gillaspie was a minister for the Soldiers of the Cross and served as pastor of the Church of Jesus Christ in Bellflower, California. He taught Anglo-Israel theology and was head of the Open Bible Foundation. Gillaspie had close ties to the Christian Nationalist Party, and he was the advisor for the Christian Defense [...] Arnold Benjamin Murray was ordained to the Office of Minister ‘agreeable to the laws governing ordination in the Soldiers of the Cross..’ by Roy E. Gillaspie, D.Th. of Bellflower, California on April 30th, 1958. Assisting were John Alvin Lovell, D.D. of Dallas, Texas and Oliver Kenneth Goff, D.D. of Soldiers of the Cross, Englewood, Colorado. Gerald L.K. Smith was a notorious anti-semite and segregationist. Below are newspaper articles chronicling an industrious career of racial hate-mongering, all the while copy-catting the names of legitimate organizations to further his own causes. The men behind the rise of the Christian Defense League were Identity adherents and former Klansmen Wesley Swift and San Jacinto Capt along with Colonel William Potter Gale. According to Gale the idea behind the CDL was proposed in a letter by Capt titled: ‘The NAACP represents the negro; the ADL represents the Jews; who [...] Liberty Lobby was founded in 1955 by Willis A. Carto. It described itself as: ‘advancing the interests of America’s consumers, taxpayers and voters’ but from the beginning was steeped in controversy. Willis was an outspoken anti-semite and admirer of Adolf Hitler, stating such things in print as: ‘Hitler’s defeat was the defeat of Europe and [...] There have been a lot of unanswered questions about Arnold Murray. This blog will attempt to answer some of them. The first concerns his credentials. In the Answer to Critics section of the Shepherd’s Chapel website he states: ‘I have never claimed to have received a doctorate from Roy Gillaspie. I do not know where [...] Link for your site: The White Report Your Site Title: URL: Your Site description: E-mail: Url of the reciprocal link: Link Listing // This site may contain material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the owner and/or copyright holder. Such material is being made available in the interests of education and research. We believe this constitutes ‘fair use’ as stated in Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law: that fair use [...] Arnold Benjamin Murray was ordained to the Office of Minister ‘agreeable to the laws governing ordination in the Soldiers of the Cross..’ by Roy E. Gillaspie, D.Th. of Bellflower, California on April 30th, 1958. Assisting were John Alvin Lovell, D.D. of Dallas, Texas and Oliver Kenneth Goff, D.D. of Soldiers of the Cross, Englewood, Colorado. In May of 1955 an investigative journalist named Jack Steele wrote a series of well detailed newspaper articles about the more notorious figures within the Christian Identity and White Supremacist movement. He titled it HATE, Inc. // Posts and comments in this section focus on people and organizations related to various entities profiled in this blog. // In The Beginning.. These are some older sermons by Dr. Arnold Murray of Shepherds Chapel in Gravette, AR when it was still called Church of Jesus Christ. var flashvars = { var params = { |
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