"I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed.”
-W.A. Criswell, former President of the Southern Baptist Convention on Roe v Wade in the 70s

Your regular reminder that Christian and Evangelical leaders were much more progressive back in the 60s and 70s. Jimmy Carter was Southern Baptist, for instance.

The right infiltrated Evangelical churches in the 70s / 80s to shift all of American Christianity to the right and tie their faith to being right-wing.

It worked.

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