Issues
The CofCC considers itself a traditional conservative group opposing liberals and neo-conservatives, supports national self-determination, immigration restriction, federalism, home rule, and opposition to free trade and global capitalism. Its specific issues include states rights, race relations (especially interracial marriage, which it opposes), and conservative Christian values. They have criticized Martin Luther King, who is considered by the organization as a left-wing agitator of Black American communities with notable ties to communism, and holding personal sexual morals unworthy of a person deserving national recognition, and consider the Civil Rights Movement, and the Frankfurt School as elementally subversive to the Separation of powers under the United States Constitution. Consistent with paleo-conservatism, they regard American culture as an offshoot of the European cultural, specifically the British Protestant tradition. Consequently, the Council of Conservative Citizens is active in organizing the restriction, reduction, or moratorium of immigration, enforcing laws and regulations against illegal aliens, ending what they see as racial discrimination against whites through affirmative action and racial quotas, overturning Supreme Court rulings and Congressional Acts such as forced busing and gun control, ending free trade economic policy, and supporting a conservative sexual morality which includes promotion of the Defense of Marriage Act and opposition to the inclusion of homosexuality as a civil right. In turn, the CofCC works with a number of European nationalist such as Front National, and Vlaams Belang and the United Kingdom Independence Party.
Following its publishing of several dozen conservative organizations ranging from the Federation for American Immigration Reform to Vdare as hate groups in 2005, the CofCC staged a protest in front of the offices of the SPLC in Montgomery, Alabama. About 72 members organized a demonstration of several hundred protesters receiving state-wide publicity and focusing attention on the SPLC's fundraising and raising suspicions of demagoguery by the center. The CofCC continues protesting speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina declaring him to be a threat to free speech and a fraud.
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