"Why on Earth are religious groups so concerned about this (abortion) … Have you ever wondered that? Well, the answer is that they really weren't until 1978. Did you know this, that …

• "In the 1970s after Roe Vs. Wade became law in 1971, the Southern Baptist Convention, the most conservative evangelical group in the United States, passed four resolutions in favor of a person's right to choose. This in the 1970s. The Southern Baptist Convention was in favor of a person's right to choose."
• "When Brown vs. Board of Education became law, which made it illegal to segregate schools, white folks especially, white folks in the South, began to put their children in private Christian Schools. They were called Segregation Academies, and that way white children didn't have to learn with children of color. These were religious organizations with a 501(C)3 status. Eventually, that was ruled unconstitutional under the Nixon administration; and any school that was doing this would lose its 501(C)3 status."
• "This guy, Paul Weyrich. You ever heard of him? He was a political strategist, and he was all in favor of using the segregation issue to get white conservative southern evangelicals out to vote. When it turned out that segregation could no longer be the issue to get those folks out to vote, he started looking for another issue. And he tried several. But in 1978, he came up with this plan to try the issue of abortion, and he identified four midterm elections, and he sent people out with pamphlets about abortion to pamphlet church parking lots. And so they went to church parking lots, and in these close elections with democratic incumbents and very conservative anti-reproductive health republicans running in very low voter turnout races … That … that strategy worked … And in all four of those elections, those anti-reproductive health candidates won the election. And they realized that abortion was an issue that would get people out to vote. It would galvanize that southern conservative white evangelical base. And so they really latched on [to] Jerry Falwell [Who], by his own admission, didn't preach about abortion for years after Roe vs. Wade."

— The Rev. Dr. Caleb J. Lines (https://calebjlines.com/about/)

Why Do Religious Groups Care About Abortion? A: Racism!

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