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A story in yesterday’s News-Times claiming that three busloads of neo-Nazis were planning to crash a religious rally in Danbury provoked the usual anti-Christian smears from liberals. But there was one problem: it was a liberal hoax. 

The paper ran the headline “Neo-Nazis say they’re coming to Danbury” right above a picture of our friend Rich Kendall and other organizers of a rally protesting secularist distortions of the First Amendment’s establishment clause:

A rally calling for an end to the separation of church and state is expected to draw hundreds to downtown Danbury on Tuesday, including members of a neo-Nazi group who plan to wear swastikas on their black jackets…

The Grey Wolves, a Northeast-based white supremacist group loosely affiliated with the Christian Identity Movement, will bring three busloads of people to the rally, Rick Renage, Grey Wolves spokesman, said Wednesday.

Renage read about the rally at NewsTimesLive.com, The News-Times’ Web site, which posted information Wednesday afternoon about the event.

“We just want to show our solidarity with the churches who are sponsoring this activity,” Renage said…

“I, personally, am not looking for any confrontations, but if we are provoked, we will react very strongly,” he said in an e-mail to The News-Times.

The city responded by denying a permit for the rally to meet on public property. And at least three local left-wing blogs went bonkers, smearing conservative Christians with the same brush as Nazis and highlighting alleged connections between Catholics and–of all things!–the Ku Klux Klan.

But the whole thing was a hoax whose apparent motivation was opposition to the rally’s viewpoint that the Constitution acknowledges a more vigorous public role for religion than “wall of separation” absolutists will allow:

Danbury police said Friday that the man who claimed to be a member of the Grey Wolves neo-Nazi group made up the entire story. Police said there is no such group as the Grey Wolves, and the man apologized for his behavior…

“I apologize to the city of Danbury, said the man, who refused to give his name to the News-Times. “I’m a fool. I’m an idiot.”

The man, who said he lived in Fairfield County, said he made up the name Grey Wolves because of his indignation over the rally.

“I’m a strong supporter of church and state,” he said.

But what he thought was a prank soon proved to be disruptive.

“I’m trying to reach the ministers and apologize to them too,” the man said.

So–like the vandalism of FIC banners hanging on pro-family churches and the death threat against local Catholic lobbyist Marie Hilliard–another liberal attempt to suppress the free speech of those with whom liberals disagree has failed. How the Left can still claim to be the champions of tolerance, diversity and freedom of expression, only God knows.

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