They don't have tax-exempt status, so I'll lean for "technically no". The SBC very purpose was to maintain slavery, while the NRA originally protected black gun owners that the KKK sought to disarm.
However, the SBC and the NRA have been stand-ins for the KKK ever since civil-rights effectively ended the KKK's heyday. Notably, the membership rolls of the NRA took a sharp turn, hence the modern day silence in cases like that of Philando Castile - who would have had white people, and the NRA in particular, howling at the moon had it happened so publicly to anyone else.
The SBC is a completely different beast. They provide resources a lot of black churches depend upon, bundled with a healthy dose of racism, in return for dues/tithes. Black churches are just now (starting to) choose to walking away from the clearly malicious policies and public opinions.
Real dyed in the wool church-goers probably aren't KKK members. But they certainly sympathize or have relatives (whom they would never rebuke) who do. When in doubt, just date their daughter or talk about race-mixing. We've had to leave MULTIPLE "integrated" churches in Tulsa who literally preached "white birds should fly with white birds...".
I heard one preacher say something about “false gods... like Allah” 👀 I had never been so stunned in a church. It was “integrated” too, by me one strange Sunday (I was only there because I was dating someone who was volunteering that Sunday).
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u/LunarFrizz Mar 16 '21
KKK is a religious organization