Reverend Richard Butler runs for mayor
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Butler, for his part, recently distributed a flier criticizing the mayor's Mormon faith. Butler called the Mormon Church a cult that preaches false doctrines. McIntire called the attack an act of desperation.
Butler moved to northern Idaho from California in the early 1970s because the region was mostly white and he figured it would make a good place to launch a race war. He and his followers rail about Jewish conspiracies and rising numbers of blacks and other minorities in the United States.
Butler said his campaign is intended to restore Christian ideals, especially the Ten Commandments, to public life. But in truth, Butler admitted, Hayden is "running pretty well."
Nicholas K. Geranios, AP: Aryan Nations founder runs for mayor in Idaho
For nearly three decades, "Reverend" Richard Butler has led Aryan Nations and the Church of Jesus Christ Christian - the nation's most well-known bastion of neo-Nazism and Christian Identity.Extremism in America: Richard Butler
The death of neo-Nazi William Pierce last July took a toll on the movement, they say, as did the arrest of Mathew Hale, the self-proclaimed “Pontifex Maximus” of the racist and anti-Semitic group that called itself the World Church of the Creator. Hale was arrested in January and charged with soliciting the murder of a federal judge who presided over an Oregon church’s trademark infringement suit against Hale and had ordered him to stop using the name World Church of the Creator.
Kari Huus, MSNBC: Aryan Nations plots a comeback at Idaho campout
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