Religious Right

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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And in the fight to protect the public from predatory gambling, the religious right is deeply needed—and sorely missed.

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The religious right, of course, has taken on plenty of difficult fights before.

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

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The problem for getting conservative evangelicals on board with fighting sports betting is the group between those two: the large population at the center of the mainstream religious right.

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But when it comes to this issue that they’ve carried for decades, these pastors and voices of the religious right speak with empathy.

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