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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Thursday, June 13, 2024

We are living in abortion politics of Casey Mattox and Gloria Morgan world now

 Casey Mattox was in sixth grade when I moved to Collinsville Alabama in December of 1986. since then he has graduated from UVA, Boston Las School and done time with Alliance Defending Freedom now with the Koch Brothers.

   Gloria Morgan was the preacher's wife, about 37 that year, native of Mississippi and Nashville Tn. Her husband was the pastor of the church where my Mother's family went back to the early 1900 s my grandfather born in 1881.

     Gloria and a lot of the folks in town including Irma Coker marches on the statenst capitol early 90s against abortion. A member of the community had a wife related to the fellow who wrote George Wallace famous Segregation Forever Speech of 63

     John and Gloria devoted three Sundays every year to preach against abortion; including their Sunday school class and evening Bible Study 

      I dissented one Sunday School and half the Sunday class walked out including the preacher's son Mark who went to Duke. I asked the pastor if he were a trustee of Southern Seminary would he vote to fire PaulSimmons a theologian who supported a woman right to choose on strong theological grounds.

    Rev Morgan had classes under Simmons in Seminary. Theh question got under his skin.

   One Morgan son went to Yale div and had some visiting proff courses with my Dartmouth Friend Randall Balmer, one of the leading scholars of evangelical politics in America. Balmer says Paul Weyrich papers began to crackle when Weyrich got the insight abortion politics could replace Race Baiting as a political strategy.

     More detail later but for the moment the SBC Voted yesterday against IVF which would have taken two of the Morgan's grandchildren out of this world. And last night a segment on PBS Newshour was devoted to a new book on the politics of abortion which would have nullified the life work of Casey Mattox.

    Read the piece at Baptist news global and watch the piece on PBS Newshour.

     I feel vindicated.

     The Morgans and I get along for the most part. They let me play volleyball with them on a few occasions when I was not qualified, could not play at the level of play as the others. And we otherwise enjoyed some choir specials and other shenanigans.

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