Michael Perotka, a The neo-Union activist, who refused to denounce a racist group to which he once belonged, has won the Republican nomination to be Maryland’s next attorney general.
Peroutka, a former member of the Anne Arundel County Council, defeated her rival Jim Shalek, a former state and federal prosecutor, on Tuesday. He will face Democrat Anthony Brown in November.
Even among the various far-right candidates the Republican Party has nominated nationwide, Peroutka stands out for his extremism, holding views that would be dangerous to anyone seeking public office. – Let alone someone aspiring to be the state’s top law enforcement officer.
As in a. is documented in Recent, Comprehensive Vice News Profile, Peroutka is part of a growing Christian nationalist coalition that is tightening its grip on the GOP. He believes that lawmakers should “take a biblical worldview and apply it to civil law and government.”
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In practice, this means Perotka will refuse to accept Maryland’s law protecting abortion rights. He has also said that he will refuse to accept a Supreme Court ruling protecting same-sex marriage. “It is not the law. It cannot be the law, because it violates the law of God,” he said at an event this month.
In a 2014 blog post, Perotka described the separation of church and state as a “great lie”. In the same year he argued for an end to public education, which he Condemned it As “The Tenth Issue in the Communist Manifesto”.
and in 2002, according to vicePeroutka gave a speech to a racist organization called the League of the South, in which he said he was “still angry” that Maryland had not seceded from the Union during the Civil War.
Peroutka served on the board of the League of the South – which believes today’s southern states should secede from the US – from 2012 to 2014.
Once, at a group convention in 2012, Peroutka sang “Dixie”, a song with the original in minstrel repertoire that was the Union anthem during the Civil War. In the same year, League of the South president Michael Hill wrote that “the cold facts of history tell us that blacks have never produced anything presumptive of civilization in the Western sense.”
Hill was the first written that the League of the South “supported a return to a political and social order based on relatives and relatives rather than an impersonal state linked to the idea of the universal rights of man. At its core is a European population.”
Peroutka left the organization in 2014 when he ran for his county council seat, citing disagreements with Hill over his views against interracial marriage.
Still, Vice. In form of notesPeroutaka has refused to deny the League of the South – a 2016 term by Hill as being “a white supremacist, a racist, an anti-Semitism, a homosexual, a xenophobe, an Islamophobe, and any other kind of ‘phobe'”. Even after making a promise. Benefits my people, so help God,” and also after the group’s participation in the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Indeed, Peroutka Won’t even condemn the group During his latest bid for Maryland Attorney General.
