FROM: Terry Lynch@aol.com; POB 241035; Montgomery, AL 36124-1035 
Phone: (334) 272-4217 voice  (334) 277-3582 fax via arrangement

DATE:  July 2, 1998 

TO:  Letter to the Editor      


REF:  Fob James Most Bigoted Candidate

How can any enlightened man or woman, black or white, vote for 
Gov. Fob James unless he denounces the institution of social 
segregation established by churches and supporters of the 
"segregation forever" doctrine popularized by former Governor 
George C. Wallace?  This is a valid question given the 
declaration of "segregation forever" echoed by Wallace is the 
same principle of separation of the races that is taught and 
practiced by tax exempt private church schools.

It is a fact that social segregation has been institutionalized 
in Alabama.  Private tax exempt church schools are the 
institution responsible for social segregation.  These schools 
often teach the false Bibilcal concept of God mandated separation 
of the races and that women and minorities are not equal.

A vote for Fob James is a vote for social segregation today just 
as a vote for former Gov. George C. Wallace was a vote for 
"segregation forever" thirty years ago.  Although this may insure 
that Gov. Fob James is elected to a second term, it is a disgrace 
and step backward for Alabama.

Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. could have told you that God never 
intended churches be used to institutionalize social segregation.  
Yet because churches operate private, tax exempt schools and 
church schools do not have to meet federal government enrollment 
guidelines to insure integration, church schools are the primary 
institution fostering social segregation.

The greatest challenge for Alabama and America in the next 
century is to end social segregation.  This can only be done by 
ending the tax exempt status of socially segregated church 
schools.

A vote for Fob James is a vote for the status quo of social 
segregation instituted by church schools.  That may be what the 
majority of Alabamians want, but it hurts all black children and 
lower income minority groups who can not afford to send their 
kids to expensive, largely segregated private church schools.

Alabamians could change the course of history by refusing to vote 
for anyone who does not denounce institutionalized social 
segregation.  But so long as tax exempt socially segregated 
churches are allowed to operate private schools, the public will 
vote how they were taught by their church to vote: for separation 
of the races, degradation of women and the most bigoted, Bible 
quoting candidate they see.


Sincerely,
Terry Lynch 
Montgomery, AL