and racially prejudiced groups.”
In original form, the resolution went on to say that the Protestant Episcopal Church “recognizes the debt it owes to the religious genius of the Jewish people, a genius that was most fully manifest in the life of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; that it considers injustice, oppressions and cruel treatment of Jews and other minorities by nations, organized groups or individuals as contrary to the teaching and spirit of Jesus, and records its determination to stand firmly against any kind of persecution on the basis of race or religion.”
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