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The SBC also has placed a great deal of emphasis on Hispanic membership, which has grown by 40% since 1998. However, according to Pew Research Center, as of 2014 the SBC remains one of the least racially diverse denominations in the United States, with only 6% African American and 3% Hispanic membership.61 In the American Baptist Churches USA, for example, African Americans constitute 10% of the membership. Meanwhile the Catholic Church’s ethnic composition is more diverse, with 3% African American and 34% Latino membership. Despite the SBC’s recent efforts, it remains an overwhelmingly majority white denomination.
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1 ssss1 Dred Scott v. Sanford, 60, 19 How. 393, (US 1857).
2 ssss1 Nineteenth-century theologian Albert Barnes argued that the Golden Rule was entirely essential to the system of Christianity and anything done contrary to it violates the spirit of Christianity: “No one, under the influence of this rule, ever made a man a slave.” See, Albert Barnes, Inquiry into the Scriptural Views of Slavery (Philadelphia: Perkins & Purves, 1846), 248–249. David Walker also argued the holding of African Americans in the most “abject slavery and wretchedness” violated the Golden Rule. He stated, “Our divine Lord and Master said, ‘all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them.’” See, David Walker, David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829, 43, accessed February 10, 2017, http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/walker/walker.html.