By Rev. Johnny Lee Clary
I was doing an interview with a Christian Women’s magazine in Australia when the reporter asked me, as I have been asked many times if I still get threats and harassment from the KKK. She asked me this because I was the Imperial Wizard of the Klan at one time and then turned against them and became a Christian, minister, and an outspoken civil rights speaker against the Klan and organizations like them. I shocked her with my answer. I said, “You know who gives me more harassment and threats than the KKK? The so-called ‘Christians’ who I refer to as ‘church people’ have considered it a ‘calling of God’ to slam and degrade me every chance they get.” The reporter replied, “Are you serious?” I replied, “Yes Ma’am. These people have dogged and harassed me more than any KKK member, Nazi or Skinhead ever has.”
I can not count how many blogs I have seen on Facebook where so-called ‘born again Christians’, many of them from Australia have spent endless hours calling me names, telling people I am of the Devil, telling people I hate gays, Muslims and Obama, telling people I am off theologically, telling people I am all about money, and etc, etc, etc.
Recently a family of deranged psychopathic so-called believers from Newcastle, NSW, attacked a young lady who wrote a blog where she said she thought my ministry was awesome and that I had led 279 people to make commitments to Christ in her town over the weekend. One guy who works for a law firm in that town claimed to know me really well because I had come to his office many years ago and had a cup of coffee and spoke about my testimony for 10 minutes. It is funny how people speak to me for 5 or 10 minutes and then tell everyone how well they know me! Anyway, he had added me on Facebook and when he didn’t like something I said about my nation’s politics, he deleted me and went to his pastor and started telling everyone in the church he attended that I am full of hate. Now, several years later, he and his daughters came on this young lady’s Facebook page and began to call filthy names and use foul language to everyone who was speaking well of me. When the daughters were asked why they were opposing me when they had never met me in person, they replied, “Because our dad knows him and says he is bad.” WOW! What great logic! NOT! I reckon those poor misguided girls were either in the special education class all through school or in the local chapter of the KKK which would explain why they judge people without knowing them.
It is not just them though. There have been some prominent ministers who have bagged me out to other ministers as well.
There have been so-called ‘Christians’ who have written blogs, written emails, and sent me hateful letters and have even tried to sow seeds of discord between me and my wife.
One group of nincompoops even stood outside the church where I was preaching and was praying against my meeting. This was back in the 1990’s. Rev. Wade Watts and I were invited to preach for the late Pastor Billy Joe Daugherty who pastored Victory Christian Center, one of the largest churches in the USA who held it’s meetings at Oral Roberts University’s Mabee Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We advertised the meeting as “Racial Reconciliation.” A KKK member who was also a mechanic/electrician snuck into the building and caused an electrical wire outage in the system, which resulted in $300,000.00 worth of damage. The nincompoops were all outside slapping each other five and “praising god” when that happened thinking the meeting was not going to take place. They praised their ‘god’ too fast because the God that I serve made sure the meeting happened anyway by getting Ps. Daugherty to move the meeting into the gym across the street where over two thousand people came and two hundred people gave their lives to Christ that night. By the way, the insurance paid nearly a million dollars because there were other things they discovered needed to be done and ORU received a brand new system and some other things to boot. God gave back what was lost and then some. However, just the mere fact that there were people praying against the meeting and then celebrating that the wire system was burned out shows what kind of people they were. That put them as allies of the KKK because both did not want the meeting to take place. They showed they cared nothing about souls being won into the Kingdom of God, and more about stopping a man who they hate. How sad of those little people.
I am reminded that Jesus said “Whoever isn't with me is against me. Whoever doesn't gather with me scatters.” (Luke 11:23)
Jesus explained this because of people bagging Him out for casting out demons and healing others. Whoever was not for what Jesus was doing was against Him according to the Word of God.
Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream that one day Blacks, Whites, Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Gentiles could come together as one and be free at last. Someone killed the dreamer thinking they could kill the dream. It didn’t happen. Rev. Wade Watts picked up the mantle of Dr. King as did several others, and spent their entire life working to keep that dream alive. On his deathbed, Rev. Wade Watts passed his ministry mantle on to me and I made him a promise I would preach on and fight racism until the setting of my sun.
I have said for years that if you never run head on into the Devil then you must be walking in the same direction he is. I am running into the Devil almost everywhere I go, but there ain’t no devil or demon in Hell that can stop what God has called me to do! Those who oppose me are fools because the Word of God says, “If God be for you then WHO can be against you?” (Romans 8:31)
Now here is the truth. My job is to promote racial reconciliation, to stop the KKK and organizations like them as well as win souls to Christ. According to the Bible, those who oppose me and speak bad about me, are in league with Ku Klux Klan, whether they be white, black, red, brown or yellow. That means they are racists. They are in league with Satan. The god they pray to is not the God that I promote which is the God of the Bible! I worship Jesus Christ, and those who bag me out do not. According to, Titus 1:16 “They claim to know God, but they deny him by what they do. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit to do anything good.”
I say to my critics the words of the late great Rev. Wade Alexander Watts, “You can’t pull me down to your level and get me to hate you. I will pray for you whether you like it or not.”
However I also remind my critics of how Jesus finished up telling the so-called experts and believers in Moses’ law who was opposing him, these words "How horrible it will be for you experts in Moses' Teachings! You have taken away the key that unlocks knowledge. You haven't gained entrance into [knowledge] yourselves, and you've kept out those who wanted to enter." (Luke 11:52)
When you oppose me, you are trying to keep people from being saved and that means you are just like the KKK. Go put your sheets on. There is no difference between you so-called ‘Christians’ and the KKK. You are with them. I am with Jesus. Enough said.
© Johnny Lee Clary International Ministries
Rev. Johnny Lee Clary is an ordained elder minister in the Church Of God In Christ, the largest African American denomination in the USA. He is one of the leading advocates for racial unity in the United States and has appeared on countless television and radio shows such as The Billy Graham show, Fox News, Morris Cerullo, Oprah, Morton Downey Jr., Rolanda Watts, Geraldo, Sally Jesse Raphael, Jerry Springer, Ricki Lake, Queen Latifah, Montel Williams, Phil Donahue, A&E Investigative Reports, ABC World News Tonight, Bertrice Berry, The Today Show, A Current Affair, The 700 Club, Australia’s Andrew Denton, Australia’s morning Sunrise Ch. 7 and Kenneth Copeland's TV show. He has also been a regular guest on TBN's Praise The Lord show and has been featured in America's top newspapers and magazines, including a seven page feature story in Charisma magazine in Feb. 2010, April 1999, Moody Magazine, Guidepost Magazine (Sept. 1998), Kenneth Copeland's Believer's Voice of Victory magazine, as well as appearances on TV programs in Australia, England, Holland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, and Wales. He holds the record for the largest crowd ever at Hillsong Brisbane, Australia.
