Evangelicals were indifferent to abortion. When the federal government cut into their profits, White Evangelicals became political leading in fits and starts to Donald Trump & a Nazi revival.
"On January 19, 1976, South Carolina’s Bob Jones University, an evangelical Christian college, lost a hard-fought battle to use its faith as an excuse to discriminate against Black students. The Internal Revenue Service stripped the university of its tax exemption — a move that infuriated evangelical leaders at the time. Paul Weyrich, a conservative political strategist and a Catholic, saw it as an opportunity.
Teaming up with the televangelist Jerry Falwell Sr., Weyrich turned the university's defeat into a rallying cry, laying the groundwork for a coalition that would unite Catholics and evangelicals and lead to the rise of the religious right. The presence of a Catholic at this pivotal moment comes as no surprise to Anthea Butler, chair of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. As a historian of African American religion, Butler can pinpoint the social and political conditions that led to this alliance. But as a woman of faith, it's a story that grieves her. “
National Catholic Reporter
History of white evangelical racism also implicates Catholics, scholar says
November 6, 2021
"The CSFC, founded by Weyrich, "became active in eastern European politics after the Cold War.
Figuring prominently in this effort was Weyrich's right-hand man, Laszlo Pasztor,[12] a former leader of the pro-Nazi Arrow Cross Party in Hungary, which had collaborated with Hitler's Third Reich.
After serving two years in prison for his Arrow Cross activities, Pasztor found his way to the United States, where he was instrumental in establishing the ethnic-outreach arm of the Republican national Committee."[13"
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“The Arrow Cross Party (Hungarian: Nyilaskeresztes Párt – Hungarista Mozgalom, lit. 'Arrow Cross Party – Hungarist Movement', abbreviated NYKP) was a far-right Hungarian ultranationalist party led by Ferenc Szálasi, which formed a government in Hungary they named the Government of National Unity.
They were in power from 15 October 1944 to 28 March 1945. During its short rule, ten to fifteen thousand civilians were murdered outright, including many Jews and Romani,[15][16] and 80,000 people were deported from Hungary to concentration camps in Austria.[17] After the war, Szálasi and other Arrow Cross leaders were tried as war criminals by Hungarian courts.”
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Paul Weyrich:
"Christ was crucified by the Jews... He was not what the Jews had expected so they considered Him a threat. Thus He was put to death." – Indeed, He is Risen!, April 13, 2001[47]
"How many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome: good government? They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."[46]
Paul Michael Weyrich (/ˈweɪrɪk/; October 7, 1942 – December 18, 2008)[1][2][3][4] was an American religious conservative political activist and commentator associated with the New Right. He co-founded The Heritage Foundation,[5] the Free Congress Foundation, and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and coined the term "moral majority," the name of the political action group Moral Majority that he co-founded in 1979 with Jerry Falwell.
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