Tim Pawlenty Will Share the Stage With Michele Bachmann’s Racist Pal Tony Perkins Sept. 27

Minnesota absentee governor and presidential wannabe Tim Pawlenty will share the stage with Family Research Council Tony Perkins at a Minnesota Family Institute event September 27 to illuminate “what God’s message is to leaders.” http://www.frc.org/wotwevent2008/watchmen-on-the-wall-minnesota This is the same Tony Perkins who once paid $82,500 to former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke for his mailing list of racists and bigots.

Michele Bachmann also pals around with Perkins, and featured him as a keynote speaker at one of her hateful anti-gay rallies on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol in 2005.

According to Max Blumenthal in The Nation:

Just four years ago, Tony Perkins spoke before the Louisiana chapter of the CCC (Concerned Citizens Council). This is the successor to the racist White Citizens Councils, which fought integration in the south in the 1950s. And in 1996, when Perkins was running a campaign for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Louisiana, he paid former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke $82,500 for his mailing list and was fined $3,000 by the Federal Election Commission for trying to hide his payment to Duke.

The CCC isn’t your run-of-the-mill group of concerned citizens. This is a group that states among its principles:

“We believe that the United States derives from and is an integral part of European civilization and the European people and that the American people and government should remain European in their composition and character.

“We therefore oppose the massive immigration of non-European and non-Western peoples into the United States that threatens to transform our nation into a non-European majority in our lifetime ... We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind.”

Does “God’s message to leaders” include racial purity and white supremacy? Will white hoods be handed out at the Minnesota Family Institute event next week?