Not About the Sanctity of Life

June 24, 2022

To those in the evangelical church who are celebrating today, please do some research on the church’s stance when Roe v. Wade was first decided.

There was no outcry. The evangelical church was not opposed to it. In fact, the Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution in 1971 calling for the legalization of abortion, then affirmed it in 1974 and 1976.

It was not until private white Christian schools began losing tax exempt status because they did not comply with desegregation laws that the Religious Roundtable convened in 1981 and began looking for issues that would “stick” with evangelicals so they could gain political voting power to maintain segregation. The two issues they leveraged were abortion and family values. THIS is when the evangelical church changed their stance on abortion.

This is not about the sanctity of life.