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These were events when communities felt committed to a very pious way of Christianity.

Instrumental in feminizing the occupation, Beecher argued that pious young women should be the ones to do the moral work of teaching — in no small part because they provided cheap labor.

We understood that conservative racism often hides behind pious professions of color-blindness and pretensions that the only "color" that should matter is dollar green.

Absent the American people suddenly waking up and refusing to elect dangerous crackpots to Congress, Brands’ pious wish for congressional reassertion of power is a non-starter.

And it distorts sincere efforts to re-focus our race lenses against pious conservative pretensions to color blindness that conceal monstrous injustices.