Wesley A. Swift

Wesley A. Swift

Wesley A. Swift (1913-1970), was a former Methodist minister from Southern California. In the 1940s, Swift started his own church, later known as the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.

He was active in extreme right-wing groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, and developed a close friendship with prominent postwar anti-Semite, Gerald L. K. Smith.cite news | url= http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Christian_Identity.asp | title=Christian Identity | publisher=Anti-Defamation League |date= 2007 | first= | last= | accessdate =2007-08-25] Because of the activities of Swift and associates such as Bertrand Comparet and San Jacinto Capt, Christian Identity increasingly became linked with extreme right-wing ideologies. Richard Girnt Butler‎, founder of the Aryan Nations‎, was a close California disciple of Swift.

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