Of Course the Christian Right Supports Trump<br />“When God has drawn a line of distinction, we should not attempt to cross<br />that line,” he wrote, warning that integration “will destroy our race eventually.” In 1967, Falwell founded the Lynchburg Christian Academy — later Liberty Christian Academy — as a private school for white students.<br />In 1958, the Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell, who would go on to found the Moral Majority, gave a sermon titled “Segregation or Integration: Which?” He inveighed against the Supreme Court’s anti-segregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education, arguing<br />that facilities for blacks and whites should remain separate.<br />“Up until 1980, anybody who was divorced, let alone divorced<br />and remarried, very likely would have been kicked out of evangelical congregations,” Balmer, who was raised evangelical and is now a scholar of evangelicalism, told me.<br />“You’re just as bad as the person who has, and that’s why our whole faith is based around the idea<br />that we’re all equally bad, we’re all sinners.” To defend Trump, Falwell seems to be taking the position that no Christian has the right to criticize anyone else’s sexual behavior.
