Segregated Churches, Segregated Lives: Religion, Race and Marriage

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-briggs/segregated-churches-segregated-lives-religion-race-and-marriage_b_2479693.html

David BriggsWriter, Association of Religion Data Archives
Posted: 01/16/2013 7:22 am

In a scene from the movie "Lincoln," a Democrat arguing against passage of the 13th Amendment derisively mentions the idea of interracial marriage to ridicule the legislation that would abolish slavery.

A century-and-a-half later, as an African-American president is inaugurated for a second term, interracial unions still are relatively rare.

And faith groups may be part of the reason Americans still find it so difficult to transcend race and ethnicity in matters of the heart, new research indicates.

Believers played a major role in the civil rights movement, but the voluntary segregation still found in houses of worship on Sunday mornings appears to limit the likelihood non-Hispanic white Americans will date, much less marry, a black, Hispanic or Asian partner.

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1. Curmudgeonly old WASP male wishes to meet minority female with boat, please send picture of boat

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2. Lol. That's a good one.

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3. I lived in Louisiana bayou country for about five years

That wasn't too far off some actual personal ads down there, I gay run tee.

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4. I know what you are saying.

I lived in NOLA for over 20 years and worked for awhile in Galliano.

They were some of the nicest people I ever met, but given a choice between their boat and their wife, many men would have saved the boat.