April 9, 2015

How Religious 'Liberty' Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History | Alternet

How Religious 'Liberty' Has Been Used to Justify Racism, Sexism and Slavery Throughout History | Alternet

"cries of religious liberty and a religious-based right to discriminatory and harmful behavior are not new. For centuries, religion has been used and abused as a shield for harmful behavior, to justify everything from slavery to sexist violence to racism in the Jim Crow South."