Gary Parkes noticed something at the end of his Woodstock driveway when he walked outside Wednesday.

It was just a sandwich bag filled with some pebbles and a piece of paper, until he read the words printed on the paper.

"TRANSGENDER

is an abomination according to the King James Bible"

It went on:

"These freaks are jeopardizing the safety of bathrooms all across the nation for our women and children. This needs to STOP."

He and several of his neighbors in the Towne Lake Hills South subdivision woke up that morning to Klu Klux Klan literature strewn about their driveways.

"My kids had to walk past this to go to the bus stop. Fortunately they didn’t look down," he said. "But I wouldn't want them to see that on their way to school wondering why someone left a flier at their house with the KKK on it."

Parkes, originally from Long Island, said there's nothing special about the subdivision — a diverse community living in about 450 middle-class starters between $220,000 and $270,000.

He's Jewish, but he doesn't feel singled out because most of the homes on the mile drive into the complex had the fliers on the driveways. Still, he is disgusted.

But John Roberts can't understand why.

Roberts spoke to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for the Loyal White Knights faction of the KKK.

"If this individual has a hard time explaining that there’s a group of people that believe in what they believe in ... then that problem lies within that household. That household has fallen victim to what society says is right and wrong," Roberts said.

The Loyal White Knights are based in North Carolina, which is at the center of the transgender bathroom debate.

He explained that leaving those specific anti-transgender fliers on driveways is the Klan's recent method of recruiting people.

"They expect … the entire stereotype, 'some dumb, hillbilly redneck with three teeth in his head' … when a lot of us are not like that at all," he said.

Roberts wouldn't say where in Georgia he lives, and refused to give his title or rank in the organization. He said he often speaks to media on behalf of the group.

But Roberts did speak to one point: "We do not pick out subdivisions because of a demographic ... We don’t target anything or anyone for any specific reason."

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