Jonathan Paylor, a four-star athlete at Cummings High School in Burlington, holds an event at his school to announce where he will play college football. His final five schools include NC State and UNC.
specific right. the religious right is playing the long game, it always has and it will not end there. joining me now is dr. athena butler, chair of religious studies at the university of pennsylvania and msnbc columnist and author of white evangelical racism, the politics of morality in america. doctor butler, thank you for being with us. i want to talk about this, because i think it s important for people to understand that, when abortion and abortion rights first became meaningful in america, this was not where we were. the religious right was not fully in opposition to it as clearly as they are today. it became a political tool to use, to get people out to vote, to fire up the bases. that is correct, ali. good morning. i think what s really important here is to realize that, at the point of roe v. wade, you don t even have a religious right. you have conservative religion. and many of those who are there right at the inception of roe are talking about not wanting