The New Right founders launched with grievances unrelated to abortion

Evidence

This was an angry group of men. “We are radicals who want to change the existing power structure. We are not conservatives in the sense that conservative means accepting the status quo,” Paul Weyrich said. “We want change—we are the forces of change.” They were angry at liberals, who threatened to undermine national security with their unforgivable softness on communism; they were angry at the establishment conservatives, the Rockefeller Republicans, for siding with the liberals and taking down their hero, Barry Goldwater; they were angry about the rising tide of feminism, which they saw as a menace to the social order; and about the civil rights movement and the danger it posed to segregation, especially in education. One thing that they were not particularly angry about, at least at the start of their discussions, was the matter of abortion rights. — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 234

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Religious Right’s abortion politics predate Roe and were chosen for strategic reasons — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 222; Proposed rallying issues for the Religious Right included gay rights before abortion — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 120; The Religious Right fabricated an origin myth linking its birth to Roe v. Wade — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the…, 87 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The Religious Right fabricated an origin myth linking its birth to Roe v. Wade #corroborates (0.90) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 87
• Proposed rallying issues for the Religious Right included gay rights before abortion #corroborates (0.85) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 120