The Religious Right’s Racist Roots

Show of hands, please. How many of you think that the most recent incarnation of the religious right wrong began with Roe v Wade? Hatred and bigotry toward gays?

OK, you can put your hands down. You’re all wrong.

As recently as 1979 the Southern Baptist Convention supported a woman’s right to “the full range of medical services and personal counseling for the preservation of life and health.”

Hatred of and bigotry towards gays has risen to the top of the evangelical agenda more recently, but it got it’s (modern) start in 1972 with the ordination of William Johnson, a self-declared homosexual, for the ministry by the United Church of Christ.

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