Marriage Vow Renounces Slavery
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 13th, 2011 4:49 am by HL
Marriage Vow Renounces Slavery
A social conservative Iowa group has retracted language regarding slavery from the opening of a presidential candidates’ pledge signed by Michele Bachmann and supported by Rick Santorum. The Family Leader’s Marriage Vow seemed to indicate that black children born to slavery were more fortunate than children born today: “Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA’s first African-American President,” it read.