Since Cindy Hyde-Smith’s attendance (and that of her daughter) at a segregation academy is in the news, a reminder of where the conservative religious right really came from. It did not come from abortion, it came from promoting segregation.

The case against Bob Jones University for racial discrimination, brought by the Gerald Ford DOJ against that university, was successfully transformed into a Jimmy Carter case by Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell (who’s own segregation academy was under fire) to elect Ronald Reagan.

Of note, four years before Reagan was elected President, he’d signed the most liberal abortion law in the nation in California.

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