In the Old Testament, during the administration of the Law of Moses, God made it abundantly clear that His people were to be governed in the main by one set of rules and regulations that was to be equally applicable to any foreigner living among them. That principle set the tone as well for those of us living in this the church age.

Licking its wounds and waving bloody shirts and such following the war to eradicate one evil, the new nation simply rolled over and adopted another in the form of Jim Crow (a hellish practice spanning and filling the gap between the end of the Civil War and the end of the Civil Rights movement and marches of the 1960s). During the years of Jim Crow, the victorious north soon fell under a spirit of complacency, becoming more and more compliant with white southern conservative demands. It ...