I did my research. Turns out, the memo (my former preacher) was trying to pass me -- "A good Christian bases her faith on disapproving of gays and abortion" --started being issued only forty years ago. In the 1970s, a few rich, powerful, white, (outwardly) straight men got worried about losing their right to continue racially segregating their private Christian schools and maintaining their tax-exempt status. Those men began to feel their money and power being threatened by the civil rights movement. In order to regain control, they needed to identify an issue that would be emotional and galvanizing enough to unite and politically activate their evangelical followers for the first time. They decided to focus on abortion.
-- Glennon Doyle, Untamed, p. 241
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