This, conveniently, happened at the same time that segregation academies (private "Christian schools" founded to ensure that white children would not have to attend integrated public schools) - a fight that the SBC was deeply concerned about, but faced an uphill PR battle on - looked to be heading to the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in 1981 in "Bob Jones University v. He makes little to no mention of the fact that the southern Baptist convention (SBC) (of which, in fairness, Falwell was not a part) was fine with abortion throughout the 70s, and only "came to recognize it as a social ill" in the run up to the 1980 elections. He clearly has done his research (albeit apparently largely from Jerry Falwell’s own books), but he completely bungles the discussion of the moral majority’s stance on abortion and race and does not adequately fact check falwells claims about himself and his work. The author of Gods Right Hand, Michael Sean Winters, is not forthcoming about his biases and it impacts the information presented in the book.
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