Re: (ReacTor) Defining Our Terms: What Do We Mean by "Hard SF"?

Paul S Person  <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:

Where do you think the bulk of his support comes from? Who do you
think the Republican Party has been pandering to since Roe v Wade?

Not since Roe vs. Wade at all.  For a long time, the whole anti-abortion
thing was seen as a Catholic issue and most protestants weren't against
abortion because they saw it as a Catholic thing.  In 1976, the Southern
Baptist Convention issued a policy statement about abortion being a
right. 

It was not until Pat Robertson and the Moral Majority discovered that
they could use the abortion issue to divide people and to make money
that it became a mainstream Protestant issue.

And it was not until Ronald Reagan embraced the Moral Majority and the
Christian Right that it became a mainstream political issue.

The pandering of the republican party to the Evangelical Movement
dates only back to Reagan.  This is a relatively recent thing.
--scott

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