Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

Read what?

I'm asking a question: Were mainstream Christian churches uniformly and unabashedly opposed to integration on religious grounds?

 

FWIW, the Episcopal Church already has expressed approval of same-sex marriage, so there are exceptions to that uniformity.

 

I'm sure there are exceptions, which is why I qualified "uniformly" with "to the degree."

I'm sure there will be more exceptions as time moves on.

 

Was there a more mainstream church in the South than the Southern Baptist Convention?

 

OK. That's one.

 

That's "one" like the Catholic Church would be "one" in the Northeast.

 

Did religion drive the objections to integration to the degree they do same sex marriage? When the book on the current stage of history is finally written, religion will be noted as the primary engine of the objections. That's not how I usually see segregation explained.

 

The difference is that she's voluntarily speaking put on the issue, and she's not following her own rationale in doing so.

 

That's probably correct. But integration was being fought through the churches as well.

 

Slight threadjack, but in the book, the Annie Wilkes character is even more insane than the one that Bates portrayed. The stuff she does is more violent.

 

You'd make a great SNL character, Baron.

 

One of the most disgusting histories of the area of the South in which I live (and probably not the only area) was the influx of fundamentalist churches starting their own schools when public schools were dragged kicking and screaming into integration (around 1971). Of course, being in the south, they wanted their schools to have football teams. Largely through illegal recruiting at the time (naturally) they built fairly decent, all-white teams that played in the lower levels of the state association. However, when they hit the playoffs, they'd face these rural public schools and got their asses handed to them. After a few years of that, they decided it was okay to integrate their schools (which, remember, had been started so their kids wouldn't have to go to school with black kids), as long as the black kids were athletes. More recruiting. Eventually, some of these schools became football powerhouses, and still are. Even now, when you look at the yearbooks, you'd be hard-pressed to find an African-American student who isn't on the football team.
Minor threadjack: does anyone else notice, in their areas, how much of the illegal recruiting, eligibility issues, grade-fixing, etc. is committed by private schools with religious affiliations? I don't absolve public schools but shouldn't religious institutions hold themselves to a higher standard?
Or are all bets off as long as you're winning for Christ?