change had to happen

In 1890 the Church of the Latter Day Saints, officially discontinued the rights of Polygamy. The Church leadership called it the Great Accommodation, never really saying that what Polygamy stood for was right or wrong. There are official writings about the subject and on the "record" Polygamy is looked at as something the Church does not condone, but there is no real paper as to the Church condemning it either. But the point is, something so written in stone, something that was once so basic to the Mormons had to be changed.

In August, 1920 the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified providing Women with the right to vote. Any right equal to men was seen as family unfriendly because women would then act like men, allowing them to pursue other vocations then the Godly one of just being a wife and mother. The passage of this Amendment would wreck family values, emasculate men, and make the American society weak and weaker. Pastors, preachers, all shouted from the their respective pulpits, America would rue this day. And something thought to be so basic to the life of the family, to the inherent rights of men to remain men, to the crux and heart of American values, had to be changed.

In 1964, the Civil Rights Act of the United States, outlawed racial segregation in schools, public places, and employment. Creatures of history proclaimed loud clear that this equal but equal, not separate but equal would certainly make America a third world country. Blacks were not "real " citizens of this country as they were brought over as slaves and have never earned the right for what the white men fought for.

Baptists preachers in the South said it was against the Bible, mixing the races. It was unChristian to allow blacks to worship at the same churches as white, it would deny the whites their freedom to segregate. But change had to happen, and the Civil Rights Act took form and fruition, and the laws had to change

In June, 1967 the case of Loving V. Virginia was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The U. S. Supreme Court knocked down the Virginia and about a dozen other states ban on "whites not allowed to marry non whites." And it became law in this country that the color of your skin, was no longer legal for denying you to marry.

The Supreme Court took away the States rights to legislate the issue of marriage just because some states felt the color of your skin was good enough reason to hate.

The Preachers went crazy, citing passages from the Bible where Jesus himself spoke of the purity of the races. How God did not just create one man to marry one woman, God created one white man to marry just one white woman. According to the Preachers, Ministers, it was blasphemy to consider making the races so impure by permitting them to marry.

But despite the fear that the antiChrist just placed a robe on his back and sat with the Justices, despite the the worry that there would no longer be any pure Caucasian race left in the U.S., change had to happen, and whites were permitted to marry nonwhites.

Change had to happen. Change from religious fears, from personal bigotries, from discrimination based on learned responses. Change had to happen. Change from small minds to bigger pictures, from selfishness to selflessness, from anger to reason.

Change has to happen in this country once again, because as long as we disallow, dismiss and deny then no one is safe.