The Virginian-Pilot 
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Sunday, August 11, 1996               TAG: 9608100057
SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E1   EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY SUSAN HOGAN-ALBACH AND DOUGLAS PARDUE, KNIGHT-RIDDER
        NEWSPAPERS 
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THE BIBLE & THE KLAN THE KKK IS INCREASINGLY TURNING TO SCRIPTURE TO LEGITIMIZE ITS MESSAGE OF RACIAL HATRED

[This story is not available electronically. For complete text, please see microfilm.] ILLUSTRATION: COLOR PHOTOS BY PAM ROYAL

ABOVE: Horace King, grand dragon of the Christian Knights of the Ku

Klux Klan, imitates Christ on the cross at a recent rally in South

Carolina.

LEFT: Christy Griffin, 14, is a granddaughter of Virgil Griffin,

founder of the Christian Knights, the largest Klan group in South

Carolina.

KEYWORDS: KU KLUX KLAN by CNB