[SoldierMedic]

Would disagree, at least in part, with your point a, anti-miscegenation laws are not Biblical--where did you hear/read that those laws were due to religious reasoning (not arguing that they weren't--some nominal Christians have pretty crazy ideas--but there were also secular reasons, i.e. racial purity and eugenics)?

From the case of Loving V Virginia Judge Leon Bazile said this:

Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow,and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

So, it does appear that Mr. Bazile used religion as part of his decision-making process. Appreciated.

His reasoning is not Biblical, though. Man was divided at Babel for trying to challenge God--they were supposed to spread out instead of congregate in one area anyway. Furthermore, the Bible states that man has a common blood and that Gentile, Jew, Greek, Scythian, slave, free, etc. are equal in God's way of seeing things. Bazile extrapolates way too far from the Bible, and thus comes to a bad conclusion. Also, he would have difficulty labeling people in the hazy border regions (such as Central Asia, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, etc.). Plenty of people don't fall easily under the races he mentions (and except for very few people, humans are brown, with reddish and yellowish undertones).

[muawiyah]

The judge didn't have sufficient information to make such a statement. Besides, the first human beings in North America came from Europe ~ but before Europeans turned "white" (according to all the latest research).

The Bible makes no such claim. In fact, the Bible doesn't even tell us that continents existed~!,

A judge who misuses religion to pursue judicial excess ~ not a new story. Some of these guys really miss the good old days when there was more use of the death penalty.