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Article: RELIGIOUS RIGHT'S BELIEF IN `MORAL MAJORITY' WAS WRONG.(PERSPECTIVE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 7, 1999
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Byline: SARA FRITZ
When Paul M. Weyrich coined the term ``moral majority'' in the mid-1970s, he was certain more than half the American population embraced conservative religious values and could be mobilized politically to stamp out the moral relativism spawned in the 1960s. Now, Weyrich says he was wrong.
Not only has the political activism of the religious right failed to impose traditional moral values on society, but Weyrich doubts there is a majority of Americans who share his reverence for traditional morality.
The disintegration of that majority became apparent to Weyrich recently, after President Clinton was acquitted by the Senate of ...