[Phys-L] Re: [SPAM-4.611] Re: THE WEDGE STRATEGY of The ID Movement

[hhaskell at MINDSPRING.COM (Hugh Haskell)]

At 09:30  -0500 10/13/05, James E Mackey wrote:
> Or one might say that the decline in moral basis in our society allows
> governments to do things that would have prompted massive opposition in
> earlier generations, when the US was still a "Christian?" nation and at
> least paid official "lip-service" to christian principles.

And during earlier generations, when the US was still a "Christian
nation," blacks and women were routinely denied equal rights, were
openly discriminated against in employment and wages, blacks were
routinely "red-lined" by mortgage and loan companies, denied access
to adequate housing, Jews were openly excluded from certain
communities, contraception was illegal, gays were openly harrassed by
police, and denied employment, even fired if their sexual orientation
became known, women were given the right to vote only reluctantly,
and only after a prolonged struggle, blacks were routinely denied the
right to vote, intermarriage among races was at best frowned upon and
at worst illegal. In many parts of the country taking a stand for
equal rights for racial minorities, or even women was a
life-threatening action. Rape was considered mostly the fault of the
woman, unless the woman was white and the rapist black, in which case
it became a capital crime whether the accused rapist was ever tried
or not. Violence against women was widely condoned, even encouraged
in some societies.

Are these the "Christian principles" you are talking about?

Hugh
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