Episode 88: The "Moral Issues" That Masked Segregation

Abortion and homosexuality. If you grew up in conservative Christianity, you know these are the two issues. The ones that decide votes. The ones churches will not bend on. But what if neither issue started out as the point?

This is part three of our series on the church’s role in building white supremacy in America. In part one, we traced colonization and slavery. In part two, we covered Jim Crow and the civil rights era. In this episode, we follow that same through line of racism forward to the political strategy that focused conservative Christians on abortion and homosexuality, in order to secure the conservative Christian vote and keep the right people in office to uphold segregation.

This episode wraps up our current series on the Christian church’s historical role in building white supremacy in America.

Topics covered: a recap of part one (colonization and slavery) and part two (Jim Crow and civil rights), the political strategy that focused conservative Christians on abortion and homosexuality, securing the conservative Christian vote, and how that vote was used to uphold segregation.

If you like this episode, be sure to check out:

Episode 86: 1493 When the Church Gave Permission for Conquest and Slavery

Episode 87: Jim Crow and the Pulpit: How the Church Preached Racism as God's Order

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