". Many years ago, racism and hate and selfishness were often openly displayed, and 'conservatives' who based their opinions on hate and bigotry were a lot easier to identify. You can still see some in public positions whose attitudes are very thinly disguised.........It ain't easy, folks....look inside yourself and see if you can answer honestly WHY you hold position "X"...."

Bill D

Interesting..
I was raised in what used to be called a fundementalist Christian home (The books on our shelves were C.S.Lewis, Francis Schaeffer etc.).
I was taught that racism and bigotry were unequivocally sin. They were evil and against God's creation--He meant what He created.

Upon further teaching by my parents on the subject, I was taught that, even if you took theology out of the picture racism would still be wrong because it was not logical to assign the character and traits of the group to the individual.

It is interesting that, from the strictly logical perspective described above, it is the "group think" mentality as evidenced by an over 95% Democrat voting practices of African Americans, that allows for a new and "logically correct" racism.

Probably the same could be said of any individual who gives over his voice of reason to "the group"