Moral Majority

Moral Majority
Moral Majoritarian.
a political action group formed mainly of Protestant fundamentalists to further strict conservative aims, as strong antiabortion laws, the restoration of school prayer, the teaching of creationism in public schools, and the curbing of books and television programs considered antireligious or immoral.

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  • Moral Majority —   [ mɔrəl mə dʒɔrətɪ, englisch »moralische Mehrheit«] die, amerikanische christliche Sammlungsbewegung, 1979 von dem baptistischen Pfarrer und Fernsehprediger Jerry Falwell (* 1933) in Lynchburg (Virginia) gegründet; sah ihr Ziel darin, den… …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Moral Majority — Jerry Falwell, whose founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the New Christian Right The Moral Majority was a political organization of the United States which had an agenda of evangelical Christian oriented political… …   Wikipedia

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  • moral majority — /ˌmɒrəl məˈdʒɒrəti/ (say .moruhl muh joruhtee) noun that section of a voting community which is regarded as concerned with moral values …  

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