Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage

How is what this woman is doing any different from the Obama administration refusing to enforce immigration laws?

 

Read history.

Churches were one of the mainstays of community life in the 1950s and 60s. If you think about it, would white segregationists in the South attend and support churches that preached that their entire social structure was against the will of God?

 

Oggiedoggie just needs a car analogy to nail DW.

 

That's not the same as being against segregation on religious grounds.

 

Stop telling me to read history. I've read history. And the history I've read does not indicate that religion was driving the segregation bus. It very much is driving the same sex marriage bus.

 

I imagine the same sex marriage bus looks pretty ridiculous.

 

Lots of Judy Garland pumping through the speakers.

 

First thing they have to do is decide who's driving ...

 

She's not electing not to enforce a law. She's electing to openly defy a law.

 

This may help answer Mr. Whitman's question:

Southern Baptist Convention > Resolution On Racial Reconciliation On The 150th Anniversary Of The Southern Baptist Convention

 

Please explain the difference. Seems the Obama administration is openly defying a law.

 

While the Biblical objections weren't as fervent - or at least don't appear to be from my understanding of history - they were there. And religious institutions played a major roll in upholding segregation and resisting integration. Churches tacitly supported the massive resistance movement by providing the spaces for many of the segregation academies of the 1960s to get their start, giving white parents an alternative to integrated public schools.

Sure there were some churches advocating integration then, just as there are some churches advocating acceptance of gay marriage today, but the larger church was at a minimum complicit.

Here's Bob Jones' sermon on the Biblical basis for segregation.

http://www.drslewis.org/camille/2013/03/15/is-segregation-scriptural-by-bob-jones-sr-1960/