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Podcast: The Beached White Male Podcast with Ken Kemp
Episode: S2E70 Dr. Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race, Abortion and the Religious Right
Description: Send us Fan MailRandall Balmer is a scholar, professor, author, documentarian (Emmy nominee), and Episcopalian Priest. Ken and Dr. Balmer talk about his new book, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right. They discuss notable players in the movement like Senator Mark Hatfield, Harold O.J. Brown, W.A. Criswell, Paul Weyrich, Ralph Reed, and Richard Land. In the right's celebration of Ronald Reagan, the religious right movement did not, as many believe, begin as a pro-Life but rather defending evangelical institutions against the IRS...