Origins of the Religious Right
Q: This Supreme Court decision is often (incorrectly) cited as the origin of the Religious Right.
What is Roe v. Wade?
Q: This group was the dominant early force in what has come to be known as the pro-life movement.
A: What is: Catholic Church leadership?
Q: In 2022, Roe v. Wade was overturned by this Supreme Court Decision.
A: What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org
Q: According to Balmer, the real catalyst for evangelical political mobilization was backlash against this issue.
A: What is defense of segregated Christian schools
Q: Contrary to later narratives, many evangelicals initially held this stance on abortion in the early 1970s.
A: What is relatively supportive or indifferent to abortion?
A: What is: 1) Religions are internally diverse; 2) Religions evolve and change over time; 3) Religions are embedded in all aspects of political and economic affairs.
Q: This 1970 court case denied tax-exempt status to segregated schools and helped spark evangelical activism.
A: What is Green v. Connally?
Q: What religious groups were primarily apart of CCS?
A: Protestants and Jews
A: What are evangelicals
Q: This conservative strategist helped reframe evangelical political engagement and later mobilized them around abortion.
A: Who is Paul Weyrich?
Q: CCS is significant because it shows that religious leaders were doing this perhaps assumed unexpected thing.
A: What is supporting abortion access?
Q: Immediately after Roe, Evangelics saw abortion opposition as an issue particularly mobilizing this group?
A: What is Catholic leaders.
Q: Why did evangelical leaders pivot from segregation to abortion as their central political issue?
A: Because defending segregation was politically unpopular, while abortion was a more publicly acceptable rallying issue.
Q: Abortifacients in the early 1800s were commonly advertised in these surprising places.
A: What are newspapers (including religious publications)?
Q: This 1976 Amendment, named after the Catholic Senator who proposed it, prevents federal funds being used to pay for abortions. This amendment is still in effect (despite being a major talking point in most Presidential elections) and was seen as a chipping away at abortion access after Roe.
A: What is the Hyde Amendment