Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez

In the wake of Brown, for example, many southerners turned to private Christian academies to maintain segregation, and when the tax-exempt status of these “segregation academies” was revoked in 1970, evangelicals defended their right to whites-only schools by arguing for the authority of parents to make decisions about their children’s education, free from governmental “overreach.”

“Not voting is a sin against Almighty God!” he pronounced. “I’m sick and tired of hearing about all the radicals and the perverts and the liberals and the leftists and the Communists coming out of the closet! It’s time for God’s people to come out of the closet, out of the churches, and change America!”

Feminists insisted that women should be sexually liberated (“read promiscuous”), use explicit language (“read obscene”), and freed from “the burden of childbearing” (to compete in the workplace), yet now they complained when men used explicit language when talking to women in the workplace.

In 2000, Farris founded Patrick Henry College, a college catering to homeschoolers. Although the school accepted fewer than one hundred students a year, in its fourth year of existence it accounted for 7 percent of White House interns.

For too long feminists had made men “afraid to be manly,” but it was time for women to say: “we love manly men.”