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What Were the Real Origins of the Christian Right?

May 12th, 2025 | 9 min read

By Daniel K. Williams

When conservative evangelicals launched the Christian Right in the late 1970s, were they acting to protect the unborn by rescinding Roe v. Wade? Or were they motivated instead by a self-interested desire to protect their own racially segregated Christian schools from federal civil rights policy?

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Daniel K. Williams

Daniel K. Williams teaches American history at Ashland University and is the author of The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. He is currently writing a history of Protestant Christian apologetics that is under contract with Oxford University Press.