As an American Southerner who grew up in the Sixties, welcome to the American South which has not changed in the sixty years since my youth. Not a single iota. This attitude is why I rejected church as a child, for my Black friends weren't welcomed. This is both the American South, and increasingly the rest of Christian America, where Christianity is earning itself the revulsion of many. While that may not be fair to the good folks I know who really try to walk their talk, as a whole, Christianity as we see it in the public eye is a rank embarrassment. There is nothing to have faith in when such faithless people keep proving who they are. This kind of embedded hate is a value set of far too many. It has spread like the cancer it is, and has given Christianity a permanent black eye, just as the pedophiles which have pockmarked all the other churches in the world have undermined our faith in faith. If Christianity dies, good riddance. Perhaps something better can rise from the smoking ashes of a failed institution.