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American Hysteria

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The Moral Majority, That Is the Christian Right

bob jones university would keep their ban on inner ratial dating all the way until the year two thousand. Any affiliation with any group that supported inner racial tionships, would lead to immediate expulsion. And in 19 75, as the i r s was putting pressure on the university again, they would finally change their policies to officially admit black students,. but only those that were already married. Out of fear of racial mixing. Though rove wade would cause a minor stir, it would be a footnote compared to the unbridled passion of the next several decades. It all started with a preacher sometimes called the intellectual godfather of the christian rit francis a shaffer who

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