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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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.”

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An initiative of the ruling leftist Frente Amplio, the legislation finally passed after a years-long battle, with fierce opposition mainly among the religious right.

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As this case lays bare, the court’s feints at evenhanded justice merely obscure its weaponization of constitutional liberties in service of the religious right’s agenda.

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The religious right says that return is already underway, that Kirk’s killing has inspired something remarkable in America.

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Given the political nature of this project, it may be far more important for the movement’s leaders to create the impression of mass embrace of the religious right—and then leverage that perception to claim more power.

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