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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (94660)11/7/2008 6:26:27 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 541402
 
< Lots of people preferred not to have to interact with blacks. Until they were forced to.>

The "people" who were forced were doing so in an institutional context. There is still no law that makes anyone personally invite black people to their family barbecue and I'm sure some people never will.

I'm wondering if there could even be a law that required a church to admit other races, even now, unless it was stupidly overt. The only penalty that I think could be assessed on them is a loss of their tax exemption. There are many religious institutions even now where equal rights are not supported - e.g., rights of women to govern or have any say for that matter in any significant ecclesiastic matters.

But actually, I question the entire basis of tax exemption for churches. The rationale is, at best, flimsy. That is probably not a mainstream opinion, though.
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