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Encyclopedia entry: Moral Majority

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Moral Majority. The televangelist Jerry Falwell (1933– ) established the Moral Majority, the first prominent manifestation of a resurgent Religious Right, in 1979.A “pro‐life, pro‐family, pro‐moral, and pro‐America” political organization, the Moral Majority mobilized grassroots Americans to oppose pornography, abortion , the gay and lesbian rights movement , and the welfare state; to support increased defense spending, the death penalty, and the free‐enterprise system; and to elect candidates who shared these goals. Targeting Protestant fundamentalists, who traditionally had been politically inactive, Falwell's organization used ...

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