Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right - Randall Balmer
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Bigots
Christianity
conservatives
Gop
Race
Racism
Religion
Republicans
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There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: With righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The problem is this story simply isn’t true.
Largely ambivalent about abortion until the late 1970s, evangelical leaders were first mobilized not by Roe v. Wade but by Green v. Connally, a lesser-known court decision in 1971 that threatened the tax-exempt status of racially discriminatory institutions - of which there were several in the world of Christian education at the time. When the most notorious of these schools, Bob Jones University, had its tax-exempt status revoked in 1976, evangelicalism was galvanized as a political force and brought into the fold of the Republican Party. Only later, when a more palatable issue was needed to cover for what was becoming an increasingly unpopular position following the civil rights era, was the moral crusade against abortion made the central issue of the movement now known as the Religious Right.
In this greatly expanded argument from his 2014 Politico article “The Real Origins of the Religious Right”, Randall Balmer guides the listener along the convoluted historical trajectory that began with American evangelicalism as a progressive force opposed to slavery, then later an isolated apolitical movement in the mid-20th century, all the way through the 2016 election in which 81 percent of white evangelicals coalesced around Donald Trump for president. The pivotal point, Balmer shows, was the period in the late 1970s when American evangelicals turned against Jimmy Carter - despite his being one of their own, a professed “born-again” Christian - in favor of the Republican Party, which found it could win their loyalty through the espousal of a single issue. With the implications of this alliance still unfolding, Balmer’s account uncovers the roots of evangelical watchwords like “religious freedom” and “family values” while getting to the truth of how this movement began - explaining, in part, what it has become.
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This post has 15 comments
September 1st, 2022
Interesting. Just for enhanced clarity, the Evangelicals voted first as a large block (throwing substantial support behind Jimmy Carter) in ‘76 (B. Graham was in the same Church as Jimmy). Carter was regarded as having brought relig specifically into the polit realm. Then, for various political & economic reasons, Carter’s term was perceived to have been a significant failure; the Evangelicals then switched, in appreciable numbers, to Ronnie Ray-gun in 1980.
However, many of those Evangelicals could’ve stayed at home (washed the dog’s hair, or whatever) - because the election was not remotely competitive. Ray-gun won a napkin-filling 489 electoral votes to Carter’s 49; over 8 m more pop votes, and virtually all the states. Carter may even have voted for him in all the confusion.
September 1st, 2022
I grew up in the late 60’s & 70’s, so I saw many years of these evangelicals, all focused on one thing. Money. The problem with the right is their focus on that as well. Capitalism allows tremendous creation and productivity, at a cost of high profits for a few, and almost slavery for the rest. I think capitalism needs to be rewritten so profits cant be unlimited. But the far left is no better with their anti-religious and low morals, sexualization of children, and push to socialism, which would turn us into a new Cuba. Both far left and right suck.
September 1st, 2022
@Hogweed “But the far left is no better with their anti-religious and low morals, sexualization of children, and push to socialism, which would turn us into a new Cuba.”
What kind of nonsense is that? Who are the people telling you such notion? What is your source and matric? Btw, Cuba and frankly most of South/Central America is the way it is. In part because of the US, in part because of it’s internal entrenchment. Global trade route follows geographical positioning implicitly. And no country in South/Central America trades easily with other continents without the sufferance of the US.
Why shouldn’t the left push socialism? The US certainly needs it badly. Btw, it’s not capitalism that allows tremendous creation and productivity. It’s open democracy and vast resources rich open space.
The US is slightly bigger then China, with only 330+ million people buffered by 2 oceans. Do you know how land rich it makes them? Unless they are exceedingly incompetent in every generation. The success of the the US is not in doubt.
Of all the rubbish narrative, so how no one has been able to actually say what is bad about socialism in a democracy.
September 1st, 2022
The market system does indeed facilitate & promote beneficial innovation.
As we know, the great hazard lies in the toxic ideological “isms” of extreme left & right, which caused such catastrophic societal & economic failure & collapse during the last century. To mindlessly repeat those stupid failures, with the terrible example of history clearly available to us would, of course, be madness. Don’t get fooled again.
September 1st, 2022
Here we go again. Another Hack trying to make money appealing to the racist, Nazi Leftists. I read better sentence structure on a gas station toilet wall. One doesn’t need to read the book (unfortunately I read a bit of it)to know the bias and inaccuracies of an article that became a book. Bloated, boring and nothing new.
September 2nd, 2022
@apollo60
“racist, Nazi Leftists”
Poor Apollo. Everything is such a challenge for him.
September 4th, 2022
Everyone knows the devil is a democrat. that’s all that needs to be said.
September 6th, 2022
Poor tenbenson they are living in their safe place watching CNN and counting on Uncle Joe to pull through!
September 7th, 2022
@Ceasar, Thanks for always taking us deeper, unafraid of complexity and nuance. Your rare voice is just what’s needed as so many of us cling to our isms for the safety of not having to think for ourselves.
September 7th, 2022
@tokyoghost
My place is very safe, yes! I am entirely unafraid of being shot by a crying redneck who just split up with his 11 year old cousin/wife and blames gay communist frogs for his misfortune (aka, the right-wing electorate).
I also have no expectations at all about “Uncle Joe” (Stalin?) He’s a President of the United States - the place is irreparably broken with or without him.
September 7th, 2022
@organicbooks
A curious opinion. I think one “ism” is entirely relevant to Caesar, that of “onanism.”
September 10th, 2022
…don’t shake hands with this benson character, he’s obsessed with his onanism.
More seriously, his other cherished “isms” are hateful racism & bigoted imperialism. There’ll always be an Ing-er-land, he sobs.
But on a book site - why?
September 10th, 2022
Hey, organicbooks - right back atcha.
June 23rd, 2025
lol… rubbish book
February 15th, 2026
I heard about this book from the podcast ‘Ill Conceived’ anyone interested in this topic should check it out!
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