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- proper noun The body of political and religious movements and organizations with particularly conservative or
right-wing views, consisting of conservative Christians who join coalitions around issues of shared concern.
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Examples
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In evangelical communities across the country, there are moderate voices questioning the way in which gay people have been singled out by the so-called Christian Right.
Jay Michaelson: Santorum's Homophobia Problem Jay Michaelson 2012
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Ronald Reagan benefitted from the ongoing electoral accretions that modern conservatism has attracted: the neocons, the evangelicals aka the Christian Right, the Reagan Democrats.
Liberalism: An Autopsy R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. 2010
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But the worst part of the legacy of the Christian Right is the way that movement has helped to shrivel the nation's soul.
Richard T. Hughes: The Christian Right in Context: The Obama Years Richard T. Hughes 2010
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But the worst part of the legacy of the Christian Right is the way that movement has helped to shrivel the nation's soul.
Richard T. Hughes: The Christian Right in Context, Part 4: The Obama Years Richard T. Hughes 2010
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But the worst part of the legacy of the Christian Right is the way that movement has helped to shrivel the nation's soul.
Richard T. Hughes: The Christian Right in Context, Part 4: The Obama Years Richard T. Hughes 2010
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But the worst part of the legacy of the Christian Right is the way that movement has helped to shrivel the nation's soul.
Richard T. Hughes: The Christian Right in Context: The Obama Years Richard T. Hughes 2010
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In fact, the influence of the Christian Right is my biggest problem with the Republican Party.
61 Nobel Laureates can’t be wrong daniel 2008
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For the current Republican party to survive as a valid political party they will first need to remove Dick and George (as well as their entourage) and then purge the so-called Christian Right venom that has poisoned them so terribly.
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An all too common theme in the policies and agenda advanced by the Christian Right is the exertion of increasing control over sexuality in general and the bodies of women in particular.
Male Control of Women & Sexuality: Restricting Sexual Choices as a Means for Controlling Women, Sex, Society Austin Cline 2006
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Since the Christian Right was a strong supporter of their ultimate patron W I think that the extent to which neo-cons have added fuel to the fire of the culture war is simply a reflection of their “throwing the religious right a bone” and using these groups to contain and work against the reminants of the counter-culture.
Intelligent design vs. gay marriage - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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