How A Religious Battle Over Sex Turned Political

In this April 9, 1969 file picture, a student leader speaks from steps of the Harvard administration building at Cambridge, Mass. as part of a protest against Reserve Officers Training Corps program

R. Marie Griffith, the John C. Danforth Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses her book, Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics. She gives a history of how the Christian consensus on sex unraveled, and how this unraveling has made our political battles over sex so divisive. 

This segment is guest hosted by Mary Harris.