Moral Majority

American  

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.

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moral majority British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• Moral Majoritarian noun

Etymology

Origin of moral majority

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.

From Salon

So they started the Moral Majority.

From Salon

But he retained its political philosophy, establishing the Heritage Foundation, the American Legislative Executive Council, the Council for National Policy and the Moral Majority.

From Los Angeles Times

I grew up in a Moral Majority church and school in the 1970s and 80s.

From Salon

“Disaffection with the progressive moral majority—combined with Catholicism’s historic ability to accommodate cultural subversion—has produced an in-your-face style of traditionalism,” she writes.

From Slate