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===Religious===
 
===Religious===
Religions have taken different views on race that have generally paralleled those of society as a whole.  Religion has been used to justify racism, and to help eradicate it.    Many Christian groups were involved in founding the abolitionist movement.
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Religions have taken different views on race that have generally paralleled those of society as a whole.  Religion has been used to justify racism, and to help eradicate it.    Many Christian groups were involved in founding the abolitionist movement; others helped propagate racism. For example, the Morman Church banned Blacks from serving as priests until the 1960s.<ref>http://www.signaturebookslibrary.org/neither/neithertitle.htm</ref>
    
===Legal===
 
===Legal===
 
In constructing or deconstructing racial barriers, the law makes reference frequently to different kinds of "race."  '''Cultural''' race is race based on a unique culture.  Affirmative action post-''Grutter'' makes appeal to cultural race as a partial justification for affirmative action.  '''Historical''' race makes references to the shared experiences of a people that have enhanced or degraded their status as community members.  Creating an Israeli nation, for example, is a reference to the genocide & discrimination that Jews have endured as a historical race.
 
In constructing or deconstructing racial barriers, the law makes reference frequently to different kinds of "race."  '''Cultural''' race is race based on a unique culture.  Affirmative action post-''Grutter'' makes appeal to cultural race as a partial justification for affirmative action.  '''Historical''' race makes references to the shared experiences of a people that have enhanced or degraded their status as community members.  Creating an Israeli nation, for example, is a reference to the genocide & discrimination that Jews have endured as a historical race.
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