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#fedifreinds we have so much going on that, even here, it is really easy to slide back into the abyss of #doomscrolling.

Please, take some time to step away, go #breathe some outside air if you are in a safe place, play a #game with your friends, family, kids & or animal companions. Read or watch something #fun & not attached to reality if that helps.

We have a long hard, road ahead and need to practice some #selfcare.

Let's be #kind & #supportive.

I'll be back later 🙂

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The movement prior to 1980 was largely of .

They were furious, however, when the Supreme Court preacher-led and in the late 1970s Jimmy Carter pulled the of run by white evangelicals.

Jerry had started his “Moral Majority” in 1978 and uber-Christian Paul (co-founder of The Heritage Foundation and the guy who famously said, “I don’t want everybody to vote!”) signed up for the Reagan campaign.

As Donne Levy writes for George Washington University’s History News Network:

“Weyrich and Falwell realized that the tax exemption issue based on racial discrimination had limited value, but was a moral issue cutting across racial and religious lines. That was their thinking on the eve of the 1980 elections.”