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Racist Religious Right Wants Segregated Schools

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Real reason for Abortion focus was

Racist Religious Right Wanted
their Segregated schools back.

Abortion was just a side show.

2014 It wasn’t until 6 years after Roe that “evangelical leaders, at the behest of…Paul Weyrich, seized on abortion. not for moral reasons,” but rather because “the anti-abortion crusade was more palatable than the…real motive: protecting segregated schools.”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/

One of the most durable myths in recent history is that the religious right, the coalition of conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, emerged as a political movement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. The tale goes something like this: Evangelicals, who had been politically quiescent for decades, were so morally outraged by Roe that they resolved to organize in order to overturn it.

This myth of origins is oft repeated by the movement’s leaders. In his 2005 book, Jerry Falwell, the firebrand fundamentalist preacher, recounts his distress upon reading about the ruling in the Jan. 23, 1973, edition of the Lynchburg News: “I sat there staring at the Roe v. Wade story,” Falwell writes, “growing more and more fearful of the consequences of the Supreme Court’s act and wondering why so few voices had been raised against it.” Evangelicals, he decided, needed to organize.

Some of these anti- Roe crusaders even went so far as to call themselves “new abolitionists,” invoking their antebellum predecessors who had fought to eradicate slavery.

In May 1969, a group of African-American parents in Holmes County, Mississippi, sued the Treasury Department to prevent three new whites-only K-12 private academies from securing full tax-exempt status, arguing that their discriminatory policies prevented them from being considered “charitable” institutions.

The schools had been founded in the mid-1960s in response to the desegregation of public schools set in motion by the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.

In 1969, the first year of desegregation, the number of white students enrolled in public schools in Holmes County dropped from 771 to 28; the following year, that number fell to zero.

In Green v. Kennedy (David Kennedy was secretary of the treasury at the time), decided in January 1970, the plaintiffs won a preliminary injunction, which denied the “segregation academies” tax-exempt status until further review.

True Origins of the Religious Right Emory University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gf4jN1xoSo

Author, historian and Emmy Award nominee the Rev. Dr. Randall Balmer, distinguished visiting professor at Emory University Candler School of Theology, reveals groundbreaking research on the real impetus behind the rise of the Religious Right in this April 16, 2009 lecture, Mistaken Identity: Jimmy Carter, the Abortion Myth, and the Rise of the Religious Right.

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1/ The Christian Right coalesced into a political movement not over Roe v Wade, but rather over outrage due to the removal of the tax-exempt status of segregated schools, as explained by Rev. Dr. Randall Barber, quoting Christian Right leader Paul Weyrich.
2/ Christian Right leader Paul Weyrich said that opposition to abortion was not the precipitating cause of evangelical political activism, but rather “Carter’s intervention against Christian schools trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called ‘segregation.’”
3/ Paul Weyrich said he had tried and failed since the early 1970s to persuade evangelical leaders to involve themselves in politics on issues such as abortion & prayer in schools. These leaders changed their minds to defend racial segregation in schools.
4/ In fact, evangelical leaders generally ** supported ** abortion rights in the early 1970s. This was especially true of the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest evangelical denomination. Quote provided in the clip.
5/ Transcript of the last clip.