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Religious Right

Evangelical Political Life After the Religious Right

By Filings on Fri, 04/25/25
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“their views and policy priorities simply can be ignored by the real leaders of the current GOP because there is no reason to concede anything to people whose vote you will have no matter what.” - Mere Orthodoxy

What Evangelicals Must Learn from the Last Decades of American Politics

By Filings on Wed, 10/02/24
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“4. The past decades taught us that evangelicals too easily bought into the idea that political leaders can “save” us…. 5. The past decades revealed that evangelicals too often wanted power and prestige more than faithfulness, godliness, and unreserved commitment to the truth of God’s Word lived out in all of life.” - Christ Over All

Research – Evangelicals in the Public Arena: Understanding Their Political, Moral, and Social Views

By Filings on Tue, 03/19/24
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“12% of evangelical Protestants identify as liberal politically, while another 24% say they are right in the middle…. a clear majority of politically liberal evangelicals consider abortion (62%), sex before marriage (70%), homosexual activity or sex (70%), and pornography (80%) to be sin.” - Grey Matter

The poll numbers keep supporting this headline: Liberals have won the culture war

By Filings on Fri, 09/15/23
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“Buchanan and his supporters wanted, at a minimum, to stop the leftward drift that they believed was happening in the United States on social issues…. it’s clear to me that Christian conservatives failed miserably in this endeavor.” - GetReligion

True or false: Angry Muslim parents in Maryland have joined the Religious Right?

By Filings on Tue, 09/05/23
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“Montgomery County Councilmember Kristin Mink met with a few Muslim protestors to hear their objections to the ‘LGBTQ+ inclusive texts’ that school teachers would be using with their children.” - GetReligion

Trump and DeSantis go biblical

By Filings on Fri, 03/17/23
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“There are moments when one might wonder if President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are running for president or for messiah.” - Seattle Times

The religious right ousts Steve King

By Filings on Thu, 06/04/20
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“Steve King calls his loss in Tuesday’s primary a victory in the ‘effort to push out the strongest voice for full-spectrum constitutional, Christian conservatism.’ But the election results tell a different story. It was, to use a slightly dated term, the religious right who threw King out in favor of state Sen. Randy Feenstra.” - WExaminer

Fact and Fiction About Racism and the Rise of the Religious Right

By Filings on Mon, 05/25/20
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“According to this narrative, Evangelical leaders mainly supported abortion rights. They jumped into the culture war only when the IRS moved to strip the tax exemptions from racially discriminatory schools. Opposition to integration is the poisonous acorn that grew into the mighty political oak of conservative Christianity.” - David French

Religious Right Has Become the People They Warned Against

By Filings on Wed, 10/26/16
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“Russell Moore gave a lecture addressing the question: ‘Can The Religious Right Be Saved?’ Moore’s answer was both yes and no. Some things are worth preserving, while other vestiges cannot die quickly enough.” CPost

The Real Origins of the Religious Right: Segregation

By sifilings on Wed, 05/28/14
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The Real Origins of the Religious Right

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