Quote of the Day: Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Conventions’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

“Regardless of what Trayvon Martin was doing or not doing that night, you have someone who was taking upon himself some sort of vigilante justice, even by getting out of the car. Regardless of what the legal verdict was, this was wrong,. And when you add this to the larger context of racial profiling and […]

“Regardless of what Trayvon Martin was doing or not doing that night, you have someone who was taking upon himself some sort of vigilante justice, even by getting out of the car. Regardless of what the legal verdict was, this was wrong,. And when you add this to the larger context of racial profiling and a legal system that does seem to have systemic injustices as it relates to African-Americans with arrests and sentencing, I think that makes for a huge crisis.”

— Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist Conventions’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, quoted in The Washington Post.

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