Churches begin to ignore the proposal, and ignore the Biblical passages that it once quoted Many decades or centuries later, churches may incorporate the proposal into their beliefs. Laws in many states did not allow persons of different races to marry. A few decades after the US Supreme Court ended racial separation in the schools and declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional, the scene is very different. Those Biblical passages which were so often cited to condemn mixed-race marriages are now ignored or reinterpreted. The SBC has had the decency to apologize recently for the pain that it caused Afro-Americans and for any residual racism that remains in the organization.
Many Christian denominations are now in the forefront fighting racism.
Many decades ago, some Christian denominations quoted Gospel passages which blamed the Jews for executing Jesus. Included were verses in which the Jewish people at the time were said to have accepted responsibility for this immoral act, both upon themselves and upon their children and upon their descendants forever. Probably triggered by the horrors of the Nazi holocaust, these beliefs are now rejected by almost all Christian faith groups. The Biblical verses that were once quoted now lie dormant in the New Testament, or are interpreted as an example of early and regrettable anti-Semitism by the early Christian church. Secularists and followers of other religions were similarly split.