The holy war against the Federal Government and abortionists began when Bob Jones University was going to lose its tax exemption for practicing racism. White Baptists went looking for a moral issue they could use as a club against the Feds and the Civil Rights Movement. Abortion was always a tragic moral issue. These evil white men grabbed the unborn and came out swinging with the pure intent of turning back the gains my kindred made, and the Jubilee Revolution of Martin Luther King.

Jon Presco

“This makes all the more outrageous the occasional attempts by leaders of the Religious Right to portray themselves as the “new abolitionists” in an effort to link their campaign against abortion to the nineteenth century crusade against slavery.

The IRS sought to revoke the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University in 1975 because the school’s regulations forbade interracial dating; African Americans, in fact, had…