Religious Right

Cultural  

1. A coalition of right-wing Protestant fundamentalist (see fundamentalism) leaders who have become increasingly active in politics since the Supreme Court's 1972 decision in Roe versus Wade. Among its leaders are Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. The Religious Right sponsors a network of Christian bookstores, radio stations, and television evangelists. Opposed to abortion (see also abortion), pornography, and what it views as the marginalizing of religion in American public life, the Religious Right has also championed prayer in the public schools. In the 1980s it gave strong support to President Ronald Reagan.

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Stretching from 1967 until the present day, Scorsese’s story provides a timeline of modern American cinema — the rise and fall of independent filmmaking, the historic and now-waning power of critics, the game-changing impact of cinematic violence with “Taxi Driver” and the burgeoning power of the religious right in its reaction to “The Last Temptation of Christ.”

From Los Angeles Times

But there are elements of this controversy, in particular, that seem to sap the religious right of any sense of righteous, motivating anger.

From Slate

But when the Family Research Council’s Dr. James C. Dobson — one of religious right’s most influential figures — died last week, it wasn’t much of a story, even in right-wing media.

From Salon

After a 1980 divorce that saw her get slammed as immoral by her former allies on the religious right, she told a reporter, “The answers don’t seem quite so simple now. I guess I can better understand the gays’ and the feminists’ anger and frustration.”

From Slate

"I started to learn what misogyny was, and I started to learn what patriarchy was," Schneider explained about her move from the religious right to her current self-identification as a moderate.

From Salon