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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg@theradr.bsky.social |
And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵
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Gillian Frank
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This historical narrative, while compelling (and advanced by a prominent historian), isn't accurate and has been debunked. Religious conservative coalitions focused on abortion before Roe and this accelerated well before 1978.
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Garry
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The USA was only ever secondarily a democracy -primarily it is a Republic. Even the Rome of the Caesar’s still referred to itself as a Republic for 100s of years after it had become first a Dictatorship under Julius Caesar and then Emperors for 400 years.
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@akatkat.bsky.social
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Sort of. The abortion thing can about as a hook for Regan to rope in Christians. Prior to that, the Baptists did not take a stand at all on abortion. Remember, Carter is a Baptist.
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Darryl Adams
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It was also seen as a great anti black policy, so there was much to be gained
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paul
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May be useful to say that an American Christian right is really born at that point. Where there’d been a U.S. Catholic politics rooted in the Church’s European conflicts of the 19th century on one hand and a Prot.-dominated U.S. anticommunist liberal right on the other, in the 70s a fusion happens.
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Dr. Fröhlich
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Correct. For a tour de force I recommend this or their previous, still rather optimistic text.
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@joker2101.bsky.social
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I wish they had lost on segregation, but it seems that is the entire motivation for charter schools & home schooling for many.
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Nice Footpaws
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It's even more annoying, because by their own bible, they're all condemned to Hell. These were written by J. Brad Hicks in 2004. Brad went to seminary to become a priest until he realized the truth behind modern Christianity: they've all turned away from Christ, and are condemned to Hell.
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Dan
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Correct
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Evan Deaubl
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This thread was exactly what I needed this morning. Thank you.
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@processanalyzer.bsky.social
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Note the average abortion nets $2500 in Revenue for Private Healthcare. The Average Live Birth nets $85,000 in Revenue. If we had universal health care, they would switch sides they would switch sides to cut taxes.
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Chad Radish
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You could just say Christians instead of Christian Right. Both shorter and more honest.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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To say nothing of who abortion bans harm hardest and first, always. Oh, I don’t have it in me to list all the intertwining ways all our issues are intertwined this time, I just don’t.
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