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Article: Klansmen's Cross Comes to Court; Rules for Religious Displays Tied to Justices' Ruling in Ohio Case
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 23, 1995
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Donnie Carr's grandfather was a Klansman. So Carr, whose family
home is in the southeastern Kentucky mountains, said it was natural
that he would join the Ku Klux Klan when he moved to Ohio.
"I was looking for an organization that extolled the virtues I
hold dear," said Carr, 32, a heavy-set man with long brown hair and a
thick goatee.
For more than a hundred years, people claiming adherence to the
Klan often have espoused bigotry and racial violence while insisting
they were practicing Christianity. When Carr, who proclaims himself a
believer "in God and family values," and other Klansmen tried to
erect a cross on a public square adjoining the state Capitol in
December 1993, Ohio officials ...