Francis Wilkinson, in an online piece for the American Prospect does a good job of explaining how the Governor and others have come to the view that Alabama’s tax system is immoral and un-Christian. In the end, Wilkinson describes when George Wallace reached the point where he changed his heart and asked for forgiveness from African-Americans in Alabama to our current situation,

A number of conservative white evangelicals in Alabama — it’s impossible to tell how many — seem to be arriving at a similar breaking point. Forty years after King wrote his historic letter from jail asking white pastors to condemn racism and step up to the challenge of their faith, a new perspective is evolving.

The Sept. 9 referendum may be too early a test of the new evangelicals’ strength. If it succeeds, the word “miracle” will not be too strong a description. Resistance is powerful in Alabama, and change has always been weak. But the vote’s very existence is a clear marker on the road to change. For Hamill, Nabers and their spiritual kin, mindful of the silence that greeted King’s Birmingham letter, it will also be an opportunity to post a long-overdue reply.

Maybe he’s right. Maybe it is too soon, but be assured the time will come when this issue will become about what is right and wrong and all of Alabama’s citizens will be asked to tell the difference.

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