Monday, March 13, 2000
Hate letters' association with church in question
BY ALLEN HOWARD
The Cincinnati Enquirer
ANDERSON TWP. — An organization that passed out hate literature twice last year under the name World Wide Church of the Creator may not have the affiliation it claims to the church.
A recent unsigned letter to The Cincinnati Enquirer was postmarked in Cincinnati but listed the World Wide Church of the Creator in Billings, Mont., as a return address.
While it said the group was alive and operating in Anderson Township, the Rev. Rudy Stanko, pastor of the church at the Montana address, said Friday he had never heard of Anderson Township.
“I don't know anything about that place and never distributed anything there,” the Rev. Mr. Stanko said.
He refused to talk about the church, saying only, “If you want to know about us, go to the library and read books about us.”
The anonymous letter came after an article last month about the township gathering in a roundtable meeting to deal with several issues, among them, hate literature.
Such literature was passed out in August and again in November in the township.
It extolled white supremacy and criticized Jews and African-Americans.
The anonymous letter referred to the Enquirer article, published Feb. 15, about the roundtable.
It read in part: “We just wanted to write and thank you again for the free publicity you have given our church. While your article was biased, prejudicial to relegious (sic) diversity and reverse racist and did not state our beliefs in order to allow the public to decide for themselves what "Hate' is, we expect it from controlled, censored P.C. media outlets.”
The writer claimed inquiries about the church group were up 200 percent in Cincinnati and Anderson Township, in particular among lawyers, doctors, police officers and other white men and women tired of anti-white racism and genocide.
“I think this is just a group trying to get attention,” township Trustee Russ Jackson said.
“The less said about them, the better.”
Mr. Jackson said last month he felt that with the efforts of Greater Anderson Promotes Peace, a group organized to make a statement against the hate literature, the hate group had been chased out of Anderson Township.
Judy Guju of the 7000 block of Concordridge Drive said the hate literature dropped in her driveway in November talked about building a new white world and asked for $15 memberships.
“I dropped it in the trash can,” Mrs. Guju said.
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