[Selmo]

Hey Buddy, prior to 1861 in this country, it was legal for Southern states to own slaves. I guess you would applaud upholding that federal rule of law just like this one.

Just because it's a law doesn't make it morally correct.

On what basis do you find slave ownership morally wrong?

Can't be based on Christian doctrine, since the New Testament instructs slaves to submit to their masters (1 Peter 2:18, Ephesians 6:5-8).

[Licensed-To-Carry]

The Bible doesn't suggest that slavery is OK. In this context, it really means indentured servant. One who has sold himself for a certain length of time to repay a debt. Not someone held against his will from birth until death.

Jeremiah 34:10 Now when all the princes and all the people, who had entered into the covenant, heard that everyone should set free his male and female slaves, that no one should keep them in bondage anymore, they obeyed and let them go.

[TradicalRC]

What you say is true, although Paul pleads for Onesimus in the letter to Philemon.

I think that the "moral issue of slavery" is based on man-made precepts and gives humanity a certain self-congratulatory self righteousness as they indulge in various forms of sexual indulgence which God DID proscribe in the OT as well as the NT.

You exhibit a great deal of courage posting your remark as people are so convinced of their own subjective sense of morality.