Jerry Falwell And The Southern Baptists

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American ideology is largely divided into two important beliefs. Liberals and Conservatives define freedom differently in order to promote, defend and protect individual, economic, abroad, and American freedoms.
Jerry Falwell and the Southern Baptists are prime example of how religious conservatives feel that it is their "Christian" duty to protest their beliefs on homosexuality and abortion. Jerry wrote in his letter "...a massive homosexual revolution can bring the judgment of God upon this nation. Our children must not be recruited into a profane lifestyle." (A 1981 letter/ Primary sources about Rise of Conservatism in the 1980s) The Southern Baptists said "We deplore the practice of performing abortions...Be it further RESOLVED, that
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