News of a whites-only group seeking to establish a private community in Missouri is generating mounting opposition from a broad range of religious, civic and political leaders.

“Return to the Land is a white-supremacist group that wants to create a European-only development in the Springfield area,” said Susan Schmalzbauer, a United Methodist minister and interim executive director of Missouri Faith Voices.

The multi-faith organization and the NAACP of Springfield will host an Aug. 10 rally in the city’s downtown to promote love and inclusion and to dissuade Return to the Land from settling in the region, Schmalzbauer said.

“We just want them to know that they don’t reflect our values, and that hate is not welcome in Greene County, and hate is not welcome in the state of Missouri,” she stressed.

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