Fourteenth Amendment. It was only during the next century, after decades of African American activism and cultural shifts in northern white understandings of race, that the groundwork was laid for the more lasting civil rights legislation of the 1960s. There are limits to what a law can do if it is out of step with prevailing cultural norms, and Christians need to be aware of this. One of our goals in the voting booth should be to reduce immorality—but that may or may not take place through a legal