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Part One: Jerry Falwell: Founder of the Religious Right

Behind the Bastards

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Catholicism and Abortion in the 1960s and 70s

In 1968, the Christian Medical Society and Christianity Today wrote that abortion was not sinful. The Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed this decision twice after Roe v. Wade in 1974 and in 1976. What many of them did care about, however, was integration because they were southerners in the 1960s and 70s and just really, really racist.

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