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Article: Religious right regroups // Demise of Moral Majority reflects the strains of last 2 years
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 18, 1989
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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 of financial and sexual scandals
involving nationally known evangelists, heavy losses of revenue for
television ministries and Marion G. "Pat" Robertson's poor showing in
the 1988 presidential campaign, these have hardly been the best of
times for religious conservatives.
Ironically, news of Moral Majority dissolving came from the Rev.
Jerry Falwell, who was in Las Vegas addressing the Southern ...