Amanda (Amanda Prestigiacomo)
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Similarly, Barry Garrett of the Baptist Press wrote of the Roe decision, The religious right wasn't motivated by abortion because the religious right's later fight against abortion was never about abortion.
Contrary to how extremists have rewritten history, the mobilization of the religious right didn't arise out of Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal.
The mobilization of the religious right, in fact, arose out of Brown v. Board of Education, which made segregation illegal.
By the late 1960s, the civil rights movement had won its greatest legal victories.
Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Congress had passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the same one the Supreme Court just eviscerated a couple of months ago.
And the Supreme Court had declared segregated public schools unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.
In defiance of the new desegregation orders arising out of the Brown decision, segregationists throughout the South founded a new system specifically to avoid desegregation.
Rather than integrating public schools, white Southerners created private schools.
They called themselves Christian schools.
Historians call them segregation academies.
Note here that we have the label of Christianity as a literal cover to protect white supremacy.
By labeling their segregation academies Christian, they magically transform overt racism into protected activity.
Let's take the example of Holmes County, Mississippi.
The year prior to desegregation, there were 771 white students enrolled in Holmes County public schools.
During the first year of mandatory desegregation, those 771 white students plummeted to 28 white students.
A year later, there were zero white students in the public school system.
And because these segregation academies were set up as religious charitable nonprofits, they benefited from the enormous financial advantage the Federal Treasury Department, IRS, grants to religious nonprofits.
The segregation academies paid no federal income tax and the segregationists who funded those segregation academies received enormous taxpayer subsidized deductions for their donations, reducing their tax liability.
All while Southern segregationist legislatures eviscerated public funding from the public school system now attended exclusively by black students.
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