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Funny, Jim, but the verses you cite from Deuteronomy are about Semites marrying other Semites where there was a religious difference. Guess you only learned to read them in Southern contexts.

Oh, that's always good, an Old Testament passage about Israel, taken out of context and applied to something for which it has no meaning, and a New Testament verse also taken out of context. Neither verse has anything at all to do with race, or with any contention of yours. Why not throw in some of that "curse of Ham" stuff that was used to justify slavery?

It's not a matter of possibilities, it is a matter of will. If you buy into this white supremacist, "White Christian America" crap, then of course you buy into the impossibility of racial reconciliation and harmony. You can spout scripture out of context all you want to, it is contrary to the very nature of God, and the humanity he created, to separate into antagonistic hate groups based on race. And the "both sides are guilty" argument is a lie. Even if there is a "Black Supremacist" movement, such groups spring up as reactionary responses to racism and bigotry directed at them. From personal experience, I find African Americans and Latinos, and most people of other races far more accepting, and willing to relate as equals than some Caucasians.

Timothy, you wish to eliminate the first amendment rights of the group's you label hate groups? The antifa thugs are targeting a wider group than nazis and racists. We targeted nazis in WWII who were invading countries, killing Jews and others. I favor doing the same domestically. We punish deeds, not thoughts in our country. In the country where libs like you are in charge thoughts will be punished. Neo nazis have constitutional rights. The reason we didn't adopt the same laws that Germany did after the war is because we have a Bill of Rights. I shouldn't have to explain this to you.

Keith, the SPLC hate map is a joke. Every southern baptist church I know would be on the map as an anti-LGBT hate group because they oppose same sex marriage and believe homosexual immorality is sinful.

I do not know a single southern baptist who is more comfortable with KKK and nazis than far left liberals. Find one.

I suppose it's progress for both of you to condemn violence and vigilante justice.

I used to admire the SPLC. Now they do little legal work ($61k last reported year against assets of $350 or so million). They offshore money in the Caymans and British Virgin Islands. Bit of a letdown from their glory days of shutting down klan groups by going after their assets.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-p ... -entities/

, well worth the read (in fact, I think the comment thread is well worth the read, too).

Splc is being sued. Surely you are up on that. Glad to see Keith blithely dismiss the offshoring of funds. This is not typical for non-profits. Might be a story there.

Whatever...splc is a crappy org compared to what they were.

Ed: David, my old friend you seem to have a higher opinion of Southern Baptist deacons in general than do I. I have far greater doubt about some one asking Sandy to join the Masons, than i do about his being invited by a deacon to join the Klan. Even so, I can not say it never happened.