Re:U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
by mullingitover on Monday May 15, 2023 @01:14PM
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> Practically all baptists now have understood that the support or lack of fight against RvW in the 70s was a blot on our past.
Actually the full-throated racism is the blot on your past, the abortion position change is more of a distraction.[1]
> In 1971, the Supreme Court agreed. In Green v. Connally, the court held that racially discriminatory schools are not entitled to a tax exemption. (Bob Jones University had its tax-exempt status revoked in 1976.)
> White evangelicals were furious. But they could not organize politically by defending racial segregation. Instead, conservative political activists such as Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie landed on opposition to abortion as a more “high-minded defense” for their movement, Balmer writes.
[1] https://religionnews.com/2021/09/22/randall-balmer-on-why-ra...
Practically all baptists now have understood that the support or lack of fight against RvW in the 70s was a blot on our past. You can read the resolutions that were passed regarding abortion in the future years: https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/baptist/sbcabres.html
I think most baptist didn't realize that RvW would turn into wide scale infanticide with over 60 million babies killed.