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I'm a very proud father and I believe
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that there was no difference in the
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humanity of my children in the womb as
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the humanity of my children outside the
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people who believe what I just said
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about the right to life have been told
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that the stance of any candidate on that
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for whether or not they should be voted
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for. Who taught Christians to believe
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that there is one single issue if the
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person says yes to this then we vote for
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this unequivocally and without question
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because you have to ask that question
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when you look at history because history
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We were not always that polarized. Do
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you know what the key criterion for the
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evangelical vote was before abortion? It
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was segregation. From the 1960s all the
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way through Roie Wade in 1973,
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evangelical Christians are split on the
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morality of abortion. Jerry Fwell did
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not preach against abortion until over
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five years after Ro. That's history. The
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reason that abortion came into play as a
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chief issue was that these very clearly
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racist leaders in evangelicalism lost
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the fight on segregation and they needed
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a new issue to hinge their authority
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onto so that they could mobilize
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Christians in America to vote in one
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particular way so that they could ensure
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that the candidates that they wanted
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would be voted into office. We were
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used, the church was used by people who
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were racist to pick one issue to say
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whatever with anything else on morality,
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this is the one thing that will
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determine how we vote from here on in by
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people who wanted to get certain people
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into power and didn't actually have the
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moral ground that they pretended that
