Max Blumenthal has an outstanding article in Nation Magazine about the racist roots of Tony Perkins, the organizer of the so-called "Justice Sunday."
Racist roots run just below the surface of a lot of prominent preachers and politicians. Today they know to keep it under cover.
My biggest surprise is learning how valuable a mailing list of racist "good ole boys" can be. Had I known that, while I was living in Houston I would have recorded the names and addresses of disgruntled ex-church members and neighbors who delighted in attending David Duke's rallys.
Now all I have is a list of moderate, Mainstream Baptists. Nobody has ever offered me anything for that.
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How much of the rhetoric and vitriol of Justice Sunday reminds us oldtimers and History teachers of the Southern Manifesto of the 1950's after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
bubba,
for once we agree. Your arguments always seem to center on whose ox is gored. Will you admit to the hypocricy of Bush's reasoning on Terri Schiavo, erring on the side of life, after he had erred on the side of death as governor on the death penalty.
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