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Religion

Igel

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3. Don't know.

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 31, 2019, 07:33 PM

Jan 2019

But religion turned up a couple of times in US politics.

One group was firmly anti-abolitionist, and they carried the day. Battle Hymn of the Republic and all that. It was a counter to many Southern views about using the Bible to support slavery.

Prohibition's partly because of religion. Then again, a lot of WCTU women were also pushing for the franchise.

MLK wasn't "reverend" by accident; that was also a large influence of religion on American politics.

And the "Moral Majority" was a group basically pushed out of their political quietism by a legal ruling too far. Sadly, once such a ruling is in place and battle lines are drawn, it's harder to actually move the middle.

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