Why many Americans prefer their Sundays segregated

Freedom of choice, the right of free association, and just wanting to be with folks you feel comfortable with -- those are the freedoms that busy-bodies in government and in some churches cannot tolerate. Human nature must be conquered, they seem to think, so we can make people behave the way WE think they should. But resistance to integrated churches not only continues, but is increasing, as CNN reports:

Only about 5 percent of the nation's churches are racially integrated, and half of them are in the process of becoming all-black or all-white, says Curtiss Paul DeYoung, co-author of "United by Faith," a book that examines interracial churches in the United States.

DeYoung's numbers are backed by other scholars who've done similar research. They say integrated churches are rare because attending one is like tiptoeing through a racial minefield. Just like in society, racial tensions in the church can erupt over everything from sharing power to interracial dating.

Yet, the busy-bodies wag their fingers and preach that racial integration in the churches will lessen racial conflict. The fact that it's had the opposite effect, both in schools and, as this article reports, in churches, too, doesn't make any difference to the ideologues.