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Margaret Sanger, a bugaboo of the Christianists

I knew the Radical Right liked to trash birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger (1879-1966). But I don't recall seeing this particular ugly angle, at least not explained so bluntly: I'll Bet You Think This Day is About You Right Wing Watch (People for the American Way) 01/22/08.

The blog post also provides a link to a Planned Parenthood fact sheet about Sanger addressing the trashy misrepresentations of Sanger's record.

This kind of dishonesty is practiced and encouraged by leaders of the Christian Right like Pat Robertson and Tony Perkins. It shows what a bunch of con-men so many of them are.

As Ezra at Right Wing Watch puts it, "Ranting about the supposed secret plans of early birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger is a frequent tactic on the Right."

The hatred and contempt for Martin Luther King that drips from Pat Robertson in this 2006 video clip from Ezra's blog post is a good glimpse of what the Christianist movement largely is: unreconstructed white segregationists.



Notice that Robertson suggests that Sanger may have secretly recruited King to participate in a "black genocide" conspiracy. This kind of diseased conspiracy- and hate-mongering was standard operating procedure for the segregationists of the 1950s and 1960s. And their current incarnation in the Christianist movement is no different. For more on Robertson's own grand Jewish Conspiracty theory of Western history, see my post Pat's paranoia - and bigotry 07/15/05.

Tags: christian fundamentalism, christian right, christianism, margaret sanger, pat robertson, tony perkins