LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY catvincent)

I'm curious about something...

I just read a couple of blog posts about the recent William Donohue/bloggers accused of slandering Catholicism affair. Yes, I realise the initial subject is a little outside the Dark Christian field of view - but some of the responses were more in our remit.

Specifically, I saw a couple of posts about the racist undertones of Dominionist evangelism.
One such post said;
"White evangelicals are not Democrats because they largely dislike blacks and hispanics. You can pander to them all you want, but the core of their church has a racial undertone. The leading evangelicals were once leading segregationists."

Another noted;

"...in a discussion of Tucker Carlson’s trying to pretend that Barack Obama somehow isn’t a Real Live Christian because, well, he’s not white), the Democrats have PLENTY of “religious voters”. Gobs and gobs and GOBS of them.

They’re called BLACKS and HISPANICS.

But to people like Vanderslice on the left and Tucker Carlson on the right, they’re invisible. Only white racist nutball Fundies are “religious voters” as far as they’re concerned...

Here’s a quickie quiz:

1) Why are there such things as Southern Baptists? Because the Southern Baptist Convention broke with the rest of the Baptist church in the 1840s.

2) What caused the break? The Southern Baptists favored slavery, while the rest of the church was working to abolish it.

3) Why didn’t the SBC rejoin the rest of the Baptist church once slavery was abolished? Because they still hope to turn back the clock to before 1863.

And as Marx and Lenin points out at Steve’s place, the r3s are wired to the corporate arm of the GOP. Both the corporates and the r3s don’t like paying taxes — the corporates just don’t like ‘em, and the r3s live in mortal terror that somewhere, somehow, their tax dollars are going to support blacks and (Catholic) Hispanics."

Bear in mind I'm English, White and not been Christian for a very long time... so I'd like to ask the more experienced of you in this arena, just how much truth is there in the accusations of a racist current in the Dominionist churches? And, if it's there, why isn't someone using this to attack them politically and morally?