Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

What really gave rise to the Religious Right?

There is a commonly accepted story about the rise of the Religious Right in the United States. It goes like this: with righteous fury, American evangelicals entered the political arena as a unified front to fight the legality of abortion after the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.

The problem is this story simply isn’t true.

Bad Faith recounts how it was in fact the elimination of tax-exempt status for racially discriminatory Christia...