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Part One: How The Southern Baptist Convention Was Taken Over By Republicans and Child Molesters

Behind the Bastards

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The Religious Right in the Moral Majority

In 19 73, a pole by the baptist standard news journal found that 90 % of texas baptists believed the state's abortion laws were too restrictive. In 19 79, a larry lewis picks up a newspaper that listed the southern baptist convention alongside the unitarian church as supportive of abortion. When lewis became h m b home mission board president in 19 87, one of his first actions was to create the office of abortion alternatives for crisis pregnancy sinners. And again, we talk about this in our episodes on the the religious right in the moral majority. The only hierarchy they don't believe should be any hierarchy is the private hunting and killing of people off the coast

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