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Sex, Mom, & God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics - and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway Frank Schaeffer. Philadelphia: DaCapo Press, 2011.
In the 1970s and 1980s, groups of enthusiasts - charismatics and others - in many mainstream Protestant denominations in the United States began espousing beliefs and practices that certainly were out of the mainstream of their denominations. Much of this "great awakening" reflected the influence of a strident voice from conservative Presbyterianism, Francis Schaeffer.
Schaeffer, and his son Frank, became prominent in American right-wing evangelicalism and politics. Frank writes how he identified abortion as more than a "Catholic issue" and persuaded his father to join him in selling it to American evangelicals, making it a defining issue of the religious right; Randall Terry (of Operation Rescue) even credits Francis Schaeffer with his "awakening" regarding the issue. The Schaeffers worked closely with Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye, and others in the movement to "religionize" politics, eventually politicizing religion as well. The Schaeffers (father and son)...