Why God Votes Republican
In 1968 the Protestant Left lost its political clout over their opposition to the Vietnam War – and opened the door for the rise of the modern Religious Right.
The white Christian left was once a powerful influence on American politics, in an era when faith did not dictate political inclination. Then came the 1968 declaration against the Vietnam War by the National Council of Churches. President-elect Richard Nixon would later eschew liberal Christian leaders – and become the first of a series of presidents who built their base on the anxieties of white Christian conservatives. Phillip talks with professor Jill Gill of Boise State University in Idaho, whose parents were a conservative evangelical and a secular liberal. She tells us how evangelicals became synonymous with conservatism in today’s political landscape.
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Music: “And never come back” by Soft and Furious, found on FreeMusicArchive.org, licensed under CC0 1
Archival: Martin Luther King, “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam”
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Lecture by William Sloane Coffin on the Vietnam War, November 19, 1972
They’ll Know We Are Christians Peter Scholtes 1966
NIXON TAPES: Vietnam is Kennedy’s Fault (Billy Graham)
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President Obama sings Amazing Grace (C-SPAN)
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