IT AIN’T AT ALL ABOUT ABORTION! When MAGA Republicans speak “Family Values” women staying home with their White master husband having White babies, they’re regurgitating Southern Slavery family values.

“This is a common narrative among White evangelicals. "The abortion myth," as scholar Randall Balmer calls it, has become the popular origin story of evangelical involvement in the public square.

Evangelical Christians became politically active in the mid-twentieth century because of the abortion issue, the myth suggests. But the reality is that racism, not abortion, was the central factor that motivated White evangelical Christians to get involved in American politics in the twentieth century. Regardless of how the "abortion myth" is told, the historical record shows that White evangelical politics in the 1960s and early 1970s were centered on the fight against racial integration—not the fight for the unborn. The thing that motivated them was race- and the right to remain segregated from people of color-not preventing abortion. In fact, racism is the foundation of family the family was ordained by God, and thus to usurp its structure would be to go against God's plan for humankind. It is not hard, after all, to find passages in the Bible that seem to condone slavery whether in the Law of Moses, comments from the Apostle Paul, or even in the references to biblical patriarchs owning slaves. In line with their reading of these passages, White southerners envisioned a patriarchal family that included slaves at the bottom of the hierarchy.

This was the model for what the anthropologist Sophie Bjork-James calls the "divine institution" of the godly family.

But as the historian Elizabeth Jemison points out, it wasn't just that southern White Christians condoned slavery by biblical means; they took it a step further. By enslaving people of African descent, they saw themselves as better Christians than their northern counterparts.

Patriarchal masters were God's earthly surrogates for their biological children, and Black people- who they believed could never become more than grown children-they "benevolently" provided for and guided. In a popular tract in 1857, Presbyterian minister Frederick Ross proclaimed slavery "ordained of God" and traced the authority structure of the patriarchal and racially ordered family all the way back to the book of Genesis. Just as it was good for women and children to submit to the male head of house as a wise and divine household figure, Ross's tract outlined, it was good for slaves to submit to their masters. In this model, freedom came through surrender to God-ordained authorities. For Black people, this meant accepting the headship of the White master as part of God's design. God the Father was embodied in their White father-figure.

For many White Christians in the antebellum South, slavery was a mandate from God. To question it, according to the historian Luke Harlow, meant to question the very order of society. Doing away with slavery might lead to the downfall of civilization.”

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PREPARING FOR WAR THE EXTREMIST HISTORY OF WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM - AND WHAT COMES NEXT.  By Bradley Onishi

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