"Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and it's not right-wing to think that children need a mother and a father, not two mothers and two fathers, " said Gary Bauer, president of American Values, a group opposed to same-sex marriage.

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And it is not mere bigotry they are enabling.

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Another central theme is that slavery was not a product of bigotry, but of business needs.

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Concerned citizens are encouraged to contact the Southern Poverty Law Center at (334) 956-8200 or email and politely ask the SPLC, a self-described "civil rights organization dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry, " not to participate in the teleconference with MPAC.

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Martin Luther King Jr. understood that civil rights meant more than erasing prejudice and bigotry, that social justice could not come without economic justice.

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It is the five jobless, witless and inarticulate white men whose careless bigotry, whether they killed Stephen Lawrence or not, is truly terrifying.

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Their cause must be our cause, too, because it is not just Negroes but really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.

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