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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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