Instead, it came through the mobilization of the Christian right following the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, an act that served as the opening shot of the “culture wars.” In 1976, the Jimmy Carter campaign cleared the path for religious conservatives through Carter’s self-disclosure of a new-birth experience, a disclosure that called for rigorous “spin control” from the campaign to convince the public that, among other things, Carter did not hear audible voices from