My point is that there was no "myth" which claimed the religious right movement formed around Roe v Wade. Therefore, proving said myth is a bunch of crap. The author made up the "myth" in order to disprove it.
In short, I at no time objected to the fact that the religious right movement was absent prior to the Bob Jones case. What I objected to is the claim that these facts disproves a "myth" that never existed.
Of course, an additional fact the author ignores is that once formed, the religious right movement then moved on to tackle a large number of issues, to include things like prayer in schools, defending using the word God in the Pledge of Allegiance, and, yes, legalized abortion.
I guess you didn't read and absorb post #29 in this thread...
BTW, on the Pledge of Allegiance...
The
Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy (1855-1931), a Baptist minister,
a Christian socialist, and the cousin of socialist utopian novelist Edward Bellamy (1850-1898). Bellamy's original "Pledge of Allegiance" was published in the September 8th issue of the popular children's magazine The Youth's Companion as part of the National Public-School Celebration of Columbus Day, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, conceived by James B. Upham.
Bellamy's original Pledge read:
"I Pledge Allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all."
Reciting of the pledge is accompanied by a salute. An early version of the salute, adopted in 1892, was known as the Bellamy salute. It ended with the arm outstretched and the palm upwards. Because of the similarity between the Bellamy salute and the Nazi salute, President Franklin D. Roosevelt instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture as the salute to be rendered by civilians during the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem in the United States, instead of the Bellamy salute. This was done when Congress officially adopted the Flag Code on June 22, 1942.
Under God Added
The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization, in New York City felt that the pledge was incomplete without any reference to a deity. Appealing to the authority of Abraham Lincoln, the Knights felt that the words "under God" which were from Lincolns Gettysburg Address were most appropriate to add to the Pledge.
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