Fred Clark tells you. The founding myth of this new, stridently political faith says that this politicizing arose in reaction to the Roe v. Wade decision acknowledging the legal right to abortion. After “activist” judges “legislated” from the bench, evangelicals recoiled in horror and rose up, in Falwell’s phrase, to “take back America.” [snip] In …

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