Abortion and the Death Penalty

[William S. Lear]

On Tue, June 2, 1998 at 09:59:07 (-0500) Katha Pollitt writes:
>>...
>  Michael, your informants are massaging history a bit. The Southern
>Baptists came into existence precisely to support slavery -- they split
>from the regular Baptists pre-civil War over the issue of whether the
>bible justifies it, and have been a segregated church ever since. That's
>why they had to "apologize" a few years ago.  And not a moment too soon!
>Later the Southern Baptists (I think I remember) opposed woman
>suffrage,  -- as did the Catholic church and many other denominations. 
>...

Two questions: 1) Do you have a short list of books that I might read
to get a decent history of religion in general, and religion in
America in particular?  2) Any way you can get your Macintosh to not
post the entire email message you are responding to?---tends to
clutter up things, making visual parsing difficult (I never know quite
when you've finished...).

Thanks.

Bill