I'm running late and missed the first presentation, but I'm now at: Campaigning for the Lord's Kingdom: Evangelical Political Loyalties and Legacies in Late 20th-Century America #AHA19 
Allison Vander Broek, from Boston College: I want to explain how right-to-life movement recruited evangelicals. 1 worked to resolve tensions with Catholics. 2 made movement broad, welcoming to all faiths. 3 acted on belief evangelicals were allies, just didn't realize it #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: Right to life movement worried that opposition could marginalize them as "just for Catholics." Inside movement, concern Protestants were just a "front" for basically Catholic movement #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: In '76, house judiciary committee only invited Catholics to represent pro-life movement. Movement, this year, took it very seriously. Had to take action, or allies would be more alienated. Ultimately got Missouri Synod pro-lifers invited too #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: Work to reframe the movement included Catholics re-framing their arguments as universal, not specifically Catholic. Evangelicals were an important pillar in this plan, example of this "universal" religious argument against abortion #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: This came up again and again, "there is a large, silent" pro-life constituency. Southern Baptists, e.g., the movement thought, would be pro-life if they were fully informed #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: Southern Baptists and southern evangelicals more generally were especially prized target. Special grants were given to form new pro-life groups in Alabama, etc. #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: Big push to make abortion an issue in 76, hoping to move white Southerners and religious people, evangelicals, away from Jimmy Carter. #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: This was a broad and concerted effort, which transformed the right to life movement into movement we see today #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell, from Florida International University: Pious Pedagogues: The Evangelical Homeschooling Lobby of Reagan's America #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: This is part of a chapter from my book project, on homeschooling, and esp. focusing on homeschooling networks. Print network that connected and supported homeschooling families #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: In one gen., the grassroots movement went from defensive to aggressive political lobby. E.g. Home School Legal Defense Association #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: Homeschooling really started with baby boomers. Pro-war prosperity and atomic age anxiety proved a potent inspiration for "education alternatives." #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: HSLDA is launched in 83. Newsletter starts in 85. From the start, it's about calling people to arms. Warning of attacks on families. HSLDA is calling for support, positioning itself as *the* defensive org #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: Michael Farris, head of HSLDA, promotes grassroots organization, getting homeschoolers involved in politics at local level. Phone blitzes were especially effective. Fax from HSLDA calling on homeschoolers to make phone calls to legislatures #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: Some congressman literally received thousands of phone calls. For e.g. Bill HR6, in 1994, calling for all teachers to be certified. HSLDA said this was cloaked attack to ban parents from teaching in homeschool. Phone lines were jammed #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: In 1999, HSLDA organized homeschoolers to meet, face-to-face with legislatures, winning promises from Republican candidates #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: "Generation Joshua," Patrick Henry College, and various political action committees were part of program to influence politics. Not longer political defense. One thing they promoted was vouchers which would give homeschoolers access to public funds #AHA19
.@LindseyBMaxwell: HSLDA trained a generation to think the most important thing was winning. And in 2016, they rallied behind a self-proclaimed winners #AHA19
Kelley King, from University of North Texas: Christian Dominionism and US Public Education in the Late 20th Century #AHA19
Kelley King: I'm looking at how Cornelius Van Til, R.J. Rushdooney, and Pat Robertson have significantly shaped political discourse, esp. w/r/t education policy, even to today #AHA19
Kelley King: Landed in the middle of a fight between modernists and traditionalists at Princeton. And was part of the traditionalists split, which founded Westminster. Developed presuppositionalism as epistemology and apologetics. #AHA19
Kelley King: Presuppositionalism argues all truth-claims are grounded in truth of Christianity. Man's self knowledge can't be the basis of knowledge. This is the beginning of "Christian worldview" thinking. Wrote on ed. in 1979 #AHA19
Kelley King: Van Til thought "Dewey instrumentalism" was to blame for a lot of things, was the main alternative to his own Calvinist presuppositionalism #AHA19
Kelley King: Van Til argues that pragmatism and the scientific method are the same as the Satanic temptation of Eve and Adam, to know truth w/o reference to God #AHA19
Kelley King: Van Til sees "the war between Christ and Satan" continued in the classroom, with reading, writing, and arithmetic #AHA19
Kelley King: Rushdooney picks this up and spreads the influence. #AHA19
Kelley King: Rushdooney's first book was a study of Van Til. Interested the conditions that underly "all modern thought." #AHA19
Kelley King: To rush to finish, Rushdooney popularized Van Til ideas, esp. in homeschooling. Then Pat Robertson weds them to Protocols of the Elders of Zion conspiracy theories, and fears of satanic forces and Dewey's pragmatism taking over the world #AHA19
.@Matt_A_Sutton: Evangelicals are right America used to be a more Protestant nation than it is, today. There's a secularization in the 20th c. and then this huge backlash, which included attempts to seize power by almost any means necessary. That's what unites these papers #AHA19
.@Matt_A_Sutton: With a number of these papers, I would like to hear more about the grassroots of these movements. #AHA19
.@Matt_A_Sutton: If we're using theories of "trickle down," where, e.g., dominions trickles down into classroom, we need to actually how, say, people writing or approving or selling textbooks are reading Robertson. Connect the dots. Maybe they connect, but I don't see it. #AHA19
.@Matt_A_Sutton: Trump is bad. Betsy De Vos is bad. I don't know that we have to go back to Cornelius Van Til to understand that #AHA19
.@Matt_A_Sutton: One thing none of these papers talked about, but seems to underlie them, is assumption the Republican Party will be vehicle of power. That wasn't obvious in the 70s. How did it become the assumption? #AHA19
.@Matt_A_Sutton: One thing I did learn from these papers is the religious right is not dead and there will be many more studies of this intersection of religion and politics #AHA19
Q. Was homeschool movement motivated by segregation, attempt to avoid segregation? @LindseyBMaxwell: It doesn't come up much, in internal discussions. Doesn't appear to be concern #AHA19
.@AlliVanderBroek: Both, but it seems that the longer it goes on, the more it's the first that wins out, life of the fetus. #AHA19
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