Color-blind justice—treating every citizen as an image-bearer of God, equal before the law—best honors Scripture and the Constitution. It also equips and encourages the church to carry out Christ’s ministry of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18-19) rather than spending time and energy seeking out often imaginary hidden racial sins or lecturing congregations about the bitter fruit of sins committed long ago by people far away.

Today the Supreme Court delivered a decisive victory for constitutional and biblical justice. In Louisiana v. Callais, the Court held that Louisiana’s SB8 congressional map—an explicit racial gerrymander designed to create an additional majority-Black district—is unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Fifteenth Amendment could hardly be clearer: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Creating either a “minority-majority district” or a “majority-majority district” on the basis of race is plainly illegal—and immoral—racial discrimination. The Court rightly recognized that the Constitution “almost never permits a State to discriminate on the basis of race.”

Justice Thomas, concurring and joined by Justice Gorsuch, reinforced this point powerfully. He emphasized that the Fifteenth Amendment bars only state action “motivated by a discriminatory purpose.” The previous interpretation of §2 had led legislatures and courts to “systematically divid[e] the country into electoral districts along racial lines,” drawing Blacks into “black districts” and given “black representatives.” That approach “rendered §2 repugnant to any nation that strives for the ideal of a color-blind Constitution. Today’s decision should largely put an end to this disastrous misadventure in voting-rights jurisprudence.”

This is not merely good constitutional law. It is good biblical theology. Scripture teaches that all human beings are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27). Equality before God demands equal justice before the law. “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor” (Leviticus 19:15).

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