by Mike Andrew - SGN Staff Writer

Ku Klux Klan flyers distributed in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, combine anti-Gay hate speech with the Klan's more typical racist appeals, according to TV news reports from the scene.

'Stop Aids: Support Gay Bashing,' one flier distributed in Mandeville, Louisiana, said. 'Homosexual men and their sexual acts are disgusting and inhuman.'

The flier also advocated banning 'non-white immigration,' and called on the U.S. to 'deport mud people,' WWL-TV reported.

St. Tammany Parish is a suburban area northeast of New Orleans. Mandeville is a town of some 11,500 people across Lake Ponchartrain from New Orleans.

According to WWL-TV, similar fliers have been found in other communities throughout the South this summer. Some community leaders said that it was part of a recruiting effort.

'I'm extremely hurt by it,' one woman told WWL-TV. 'As a member of the gay community& I think it shows the ignorance of society still.'

Covington resident Katrina Whimper told the TV station she was surprised to find Klan fliers in her neighborhood. Covington is St. Tammany's parish seat.

'It just really caught me off-guard because I never thought in this neighborhood, or now these days or whatever, that that would be something we would walk out and find,' Whimper said.

St. Tammy Parish Sheriff Jack Strain said there wasn't much his department could do about the anti-Gay fliers in Mandeville.

'There's no doubt they're trying to deliver a hateful message, and we take it very serious,' Strain explained. 'But at this point, we have to talk to our victim. We have to determine a lot of things including how it got there, when it got there, when she discovered it.'

The FBI said that it was monitoring the situation.

The FBI could intervene in the case if requested by parish officials, or if it sees evidence of a hate crime as defined by the federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act passed in 2009. The law covers crimes that are motivated by the victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

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