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In 1958, the Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell, who would go on to found the Moral Majority, gave a sermon titled Segregation or Integration: Which? He inveighed against the Supreme Courts anti-segregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education, arguing that facilities for blacks and whites should remain separate.
When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross that line, he wrote, warning that integration will destroy our race eventually. In 1967, Falwell founded the Lynchburg Christian Academy later Liberty Christian Academy as a private school for white students.
The Lynchburg Christian Academy, in Virginia, was one of many so-called seg academies created throughout the South to circumvent desegregation. In the 1970s, these discriminatory schools lost their tax-exempt status. Feeling under siege as a result, conservative Christians started organizing politically. This was the origin of the modern religious right, and it helps explain why a movement publicly devoted to piety has stood so faithfully by Donald Trump.
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But it seems absurd to ask secular people to respect the religious rights beliefs about sex and marriage and thus tolerate a degree of anti-gay discrimination while the movements leaders treat their own sexual standards as flexible and conditional. Christian conservatives may believe strongly in their own righteousness. But from the outside, it looks as if their movement was never really about morality at all.
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bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Keep this uppermost in your mind anytime you're engaging with someone from this faction. Their God-given iron pronouncements acquire a flexibility gymnasts can only envy when those pronouncements affect one they call their own. Whether it's child molester Roy Moore, or serial adulterer Donald Trump, there's always an excuse to absolve their own of crimes or sins that merit the death penalty for their disfavored.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)during the Clinton years it was all about him being immoral and I'd forgotten they did not back Carter, one of their own.
It's all about race and money. I hope everyone remembers and gives them shit about it.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Read this and replace the devil with DT and Jesus with these evangelists:
Matthew 4: 8, 9
8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 All this I will give you, he said, if you will bow down and worship me.