White Evangelical Racism

One of the myths that Anthea Butler, author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) discovered in her research is the “conceit that the Religious Right, fundamentalism, and conservative evangelicals emerged as a political movement in response to the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973.”

Political Research Associates

"James Dobson’s harsh, disciplinarian Christianity changed GOP politics"

"Discipline rooted in fear, not love, was a hallmark of Dobson’s teachings and a hallmark of his writings about children."

By #AntheaButler

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/religious-right-james-dobson-dead-at-89-rcna226322

Focus on the Family James Dobson’s harsh Christianity changed GOP politics

James Dobson, a founder of Focus on the Family and a Republican Party kingmaker, was one of the last of a generation who launched the Religious Right in the 1970s.

MSNBC