Apartheid

Apartheid was a discrimnatory policy in effect in South Africa for many years. It classifid non-white people officially as less than equal under the law. The United States had a similar policy between the time slavery was banned in the 1860's and the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's. Those who supported apartheid in South Africa and in the United States appealed to the Bible and long-standing tradition (see article on "Proof") to support their contention that non-white people were of lower intelligence and generally prone to a number of bad habits. Both countries also banned marriage between the races, claiming that such a union was against God's will. If you have noticed any similarity to the current conservative stance towards homosexuality and gay marriage, you must be a conspiracy theorist or a liberal.