Alabama heeds Christian Coalition, votes for Jim Crow

20 November 2004 by Ron

Just so we know who it was that elected God’s little sock puppet, and what their “moral values” lead them to: Alabama Finds Whole New Shade Of Red

…a state constitutional amendment approved by voters in 1956… mandate[d] racially segregated schools… This year, the Alabama Legislature referred Amendment 2 to the voters to take out of the state’s constitution the three most egregious vestiges of racism in its segregation amendment. They were that schools must be segregated, that a poll tax had to be paid and that a right to an education at taxpayer expense did not exist for an Alabama child…

With nearly 1.4 million votes cast, it appears that Amendment 2 failed by about 2,500 votes… You’re asking how this could happen. The Legislature referred the amendment unanimously. The governor endorsed it. The answer is that professed Christians, those of supposedly superior moral values, beat Amendment 2. The opposition was led by the state’s Christian Coalition…

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