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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (70501)6/1/2014 10:42:27 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
No, mostly its abortion and Roe. Bob Jones != "the religious right". As for Falwell and Weyrich 1- The same applies to them and 2 - The article provides no support for the implication that they where primarily or even strongly motivated by racial segregation.

But Falwell and Weyrich, having tapped into the ire of evangelical leaders, were also savvy enough to recognize that organizing grassroots evangelicals to defend racial discrimination would be a challenge. It had worked to rally the leaders, but they needed a different issue if they wanted to mobilize evangelical voters on a large scale.

implies a lot but it isn't supported in the article, and even if those implications are true it also suggests (and that suggestion matches reality) that segregation wouldn't mobilize religious conservatives to vote or to vote in any particular way. Roe/abortion did provide that motivation, it was the issue for the religious right.
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