White Nationalist Pastors Ken Peters & Greg Locke: Dangerous Friendship and Extremist Rhetoric

The Alliance of Extremist Pastors

• 🤝 Ken Peters, a self-identified white nationalist pastor, is a close friend and mentee of fellow extremist pastor Greg Locke.
• 💰 Locke reportedly invested $200,000 to help Peters relocate to Tennessee and establish his "Patriot Church" there.

Ken Peters' Extremist Ideologies

• 🌍 Peters advocates for racial segregation, even suggesting that people will be segregated by nationality in heaven.
• 📜 He promotes Christian nationalism, asserting that "God's moral laws" should be enforced through national legislation, rejecting a free society where individuals live as they choose.
• 🏳️‍🌈 Peters' interpretation of "moral law" is used to justify anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-transgender stances, claiming these are fundamental biblical truths.

The Planned Parenthood Arson Incident

• ⛪ Peters founded "The Church at Planned Parenthood," holding services directly outside abortion clinics.
• 🔥 He publicly prayed for "fire of heaven" to strike a Knoxville Planned Parenthood clinic, stating, "We pray that every fire of heaven would come against this building."
• 🚨 Approximately one year after Peters' prayer, the Knoxville clinic was burned to the ground by an arsonist, Mark Thomas Reno, who was a member of a Catholic militia group and present at the January 6th insurrection.

Peters' Reaction and Deniability

• 😈 Peters showed no remorse for the arson, implicitly celebrating it as an "answer to prayer" and a "good thing" that put the clinic "out of business."
• 🎙️ He strategically handled media inquiries, claiming to be "mournful" about the conversation surrounding the arson, while maintaining plausible deniability regarding his involvement.
• ⚖️ Despite his inflammatory rhetoric, Peters was not formally charged by authorities, as the actual perpetrator, Mark Thomas Reno, was identified and later died.