Southern Baptists and Race

Greg has a pretty scathing post on this subject. I have been hammering on this for sometime, pointing that many of the same people now absolutely certain that homosexuality is wrong, were just as adamant in the 1960s that segregation was fine, or that inter-racial relationships were wrong. Richard Land is quick to take credit for the 1990s SBC apology on slavery and segregation, and it seems that most want to see racism as simply a historical issue. I was mad about that when it happened because it took the guts of a titmouse to admit that racism was wrong in 1996 or whenever it happened. Like now saying the Church was wrong about the flat earth.

the parish: Southern Racists...I Mean Baptists: "n 1989 George Gallup, Jr. and James Castelli published the results of a survey to determine which groups in the U.S. were least and most likely to object to having black neighbors...20 percent of Southern Baptists objected to black neighbors."

Unfortunately, it isn't past. Bruce's important post on redlining reminded us all of the ever presence of racism in our society, and how that has tangible costs to minorities in the land of opportunity.

Thinking again about Dobson, Falwell, and Robertson, not to mention Hagee and D. James Kennedy--I would have some respect had I ever heard them start a letter writing campaign to protest poverty, racism, or environmental destruction. No, there have been many about sexuality or nudity, but none that I can remember on social justice.