http://religiondispatches.org/how-race- ... gregation/
One thing Russ Moore does not want to talk about now is the fundamentalist leadership of the Takeover--Pressler, Patterson, Albert Lee Smith, Jesse Helms and ADrian Rogers Ed McAteer--shady race history on the margins if not card carrying Bircher and white citizens council apologists. Our "moderate" ancestry is not pure on the matter, Tom Graves recent testimony on his Dad and Robert E Lee Pulitzer biographer Southwell drives that point home in recent Christian Ethics Today pivotal confession. SBTS Duke McCall is weighed in the balance and found touring Indiana when he coulda been in Chapel in Louisville and listening to Martin Luther King Jr.
Still Mohler and Moore don't have a platform without the work of some of the last holdouts of the Lost Cause. Also see Lee Atwater's "****** memo" in Wuthnows' Rough Country and how it evolved into SBC leadership religion card for the glory of the Bushes, Fox News and now Trump. Molly Worthen works the nuances in a spate of recent pieces at nytimes and the atlantic as monuments come down in New Orleans and a spotlight is on North Carolina where UNC chancellor Bill Friday knew in 87 how things were breaking for Helms in the ouster of Randall Lolley. He told Cecil Sherman as much.
So here we are. None are blameless, but at a minimum we can tell the truth about the History of how we got here.