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This article traces the career of the West German jurist Manfred Roeder, who went from evangelicalism and resistance to left-wing Protestantism to become a central conservative-nationalistic actor against “perversion” and the “porn wave” in 1970. In his militant activism he rapidly left the Christian frame of reference; his path led him to antisemitism, historical revisionism, and right-wing terrorism. The study ofRoeder can serve as a probe into the social processes of negotiation for the liberalization of sexuality and thus fundamentally for the moral-ethical sovereignty of interpretation of the time, while also shedding light on the radicalization of conservative and rightwing Christian groups in reaction to the developments of 1968 / 69.