(02-07-2012 10:48 AM)wvucrazed Wrote:  

(02-07-2012 10:42 AM)Bull_In_Exile Wrote:  

(02-07-2012 10:38 AM)wvucrazed Wrote:  Too bad. Anybody can claim religious beliefs to back up any absurdity they want. Religion was the primary shield and excuse during segregation. Loony tune mythology shouldn't be a determining factor in what health care services are offered at a hospital.

Religion was also the driving force to end slavery but why let facts get in your way.

"[Slavery] was established by decree of Almighty God...it is sanctioned in the Bible, in both Testaments, from Genesis to Revelation...it has existed in all ages, has been found among the people of the highest civilization, and in nations of the highest proficiency in the arts." Jefferson Davis, President, Confederate States of America

The first American movement to abolish slavery came in April 1688 when German and Dutch Quakers of Mennonite descent in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia) wrote a two-page condemnation of the practice and sent it to the governing bodies of their Quaker church, the Society of Friends. Though the Quaker establishment took no immediate action, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, was an unusually early, clear and forceful argument against slavery and initiated the process that finally led to the banning of slavery in the Society of Friends (1776) and in the state of Pennsylvania (1780).