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Moral Majority

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Moral Majority U.S. political action group composed of conservative, fundamentalist Christians. Founded (1979) and led (1979-87) by evangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell , the group played a significant role in the 1980 elections through its strong support of conservative candidates. It lobbied for prayer and the teaching of creationism in public schools, while opposing the Equal Rights Amendment (see feminism ), homosexual rights, abortion, and the U.S.-Soviet SALT treaties (see disarmament, nuclear ). The Moral Majority was dissolved in 1989. Author not available, MORAL MAJORITY.... Read more
Moral Majority
The Oxford Companion to United States History Moral Majority. The televangelist Jerry Falwell (1933– ) established the Moral Majority, the first prominent manifestation ... life, pro‐family, pro‐moral, and pro‐America” political organization, the Moral Majority mobilized grassroots Americans ... Read more
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable moral Moral Majority the name of a political movement of evangelical Christians, founded in ... by the title of Westley and Epstein's book The Silent Majority (1969). Moral Rearmament an organization founded by the American Lutheran evangelist ... Read more

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Religious right regroups // Demise of Moral Majority reflects the strains of last 2 years
Chicago Sun-Times; 6/18/1989; Wade Clark Roof; 787 words ; The news that Moral Majority was closing its doors came as little surprise. A decade after its founding, this best-known and most visible institution of the religious right had lost its momentum. Not just Moral Majority but the religious right generally finds itself in a slump. After two years ... Read more
Falwell Says Moral Majority to Be Dissolved
The Washington Post; 6/12/1989; Laura Sessions Stepp; 619 words ; Moral Majority Inc., the political organization that ... its newsletter. "The purpose of the Moral Majority was to activate the religious right ... Phillips said the formal disbanding of the Moral Majority "is just ratification of a political ... Read more
Moral Majority absorbed by group
Chicago Sun-Times; 1/4/1986; 398 words ; WASHINGTON Moral Majority, the conservative Christian lobbying ... anticipated in 1979 {when he founded the Moral Majority}," Falwell said. Such political questions ... unverifiable nuclear freeze. The Moral Majority, he added, will remain "a front-burner ... Read more
FALWELL WILL DISBAND THE MORAL MAJORITY
The Boston Globe; 6/12/1989; James L. Franklin, Globe Staff; 787 words ; ... founded. State chapters of Moral Majority may continue, Rev. Falwell ... From 1979 to 1982, when the Moral Majority was at its crescendo ... Law "and Mormon leaders on moral and social issues without ... survived both the birth of Moral Majority and the PTL controversy ... Falwell ... Read more
Moral Majority or Moral Minority?
Hannity & Colmes (Fox News Network); 5/17/1999; Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes; 787 words ; ... on HANNITY & COLMES, is the Moral Majority really the moral minority? We ... was 20 years ago that the new Moral Majority promised to transform the nation ... by one of the founders of the Moral Majority, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, who ... Read more
Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell dies at 73
The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/16/2007; SUE LINDSEY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS; 712 words ; ... Bergen County, NJ) 05-16-2007 Moral Majority founder Jerry Falwell dies ... 05-16-2007, Wednesday Section: NEWS Edtion: All Editions Biographical ... He was 73. The founder of Moral Majority was discovered without a pulse ... hour later. Falwell founded Moral Majority in 1979 in ... Read more
Moral Majority ready to close, Falwell says
Chicago Sun-Times; 6/12/1989; Daniel J. Lehmann; 377 words ; LAS VEGAS Moral Majority triumphed in its 10-year battle for ... groups combined to end the need for Moral Majority. "The religious right is solidly in ... ministry of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker. Moral Majority was founded in 1979 over what Falwell ... Read more
Religious Leaders Assail Moral Majority's `Scare Tactics' Over Civil Rights Bill
The Washington Post; 3/19/1988; Helen Dewar; 680 words ; ... the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority of "distortions" and "scare ... in the memorandum of the Moral Majority regarding the Civil Rights ... misrepresentations." Joining them at a news conference on Capitol Hill ... the weekend to counter the Moral Majority's criticism of the bill ... Read more
FORMER MORAL MAJORITY AIDES SAY MOVEMENT WAS MISGUIDED.(FRONT)
The Virginian Pilot; 3/19/1999; 399 words ; ... figures in the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority during the 1980s now say that ... columnist Cal Thomas, who was the Moral Majority's much-quoted spokesman, and the ... appears weeks after one of the Moral Majority's three founders, Paul Weyrich ... Read more
'MORAL MAJORITY'S' SILENCE IS DEAFENING
Roanoke Times & World News; 5/30/2004; Cody Lowe The Roanoke Times; 735 words ; ... regretting having let loose the Moral Majority about now. Well, probably not ... ago. But even at that point, the Moral Majority - and the myriad advocacy groups ... beach. They truly believed a "moral majority" of U.S. citizens agreed with ... Read more

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