Moral Majority

noun

1. 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.

moral majority

noun

1. a presumed majority of people believed to be in favour of a stricter code of public morals

Other Word Forms

• Moral Majoritarian noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of moral majority¹

C20: after Moral Majority, a right-wing US religious organization, based on _{silent majority}

Example Sentences

In this book, you deal with the misconception that the Moral Majority and larger Christian right development in the late 20th century was due to abortion.

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So they started the Moral Majority.

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In the 1980s and ’90s, Falwell’s Moral Majority focused on working within the democratic process to mobilize evangelical voters and elect politicians with a Christian worldview.

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“If the Moral Majority is about galvanizing the voters, the Seven Mountains is a revolutionary model: You need to conquer these mountains and let change flow down from the top,” said Matthew Taylor, a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies and an expert on Christian nationalism.

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The whole “moral majority” movement in conservative politics always involved theatrics and cosplay.

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