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The Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s.
Usage examples of "moral majority".
Its difficult to make a case for the Reverand Jerry Falwell as a leader of the religious right inasmuch as his organization, the Moral Majority, disbanded in 1989.
Reagan is taking these people seriously all right: he has hired a Moral Majority operative to liaise with the horn-again community.
At the other end, for several minutes the Vice President of the United States of America used language that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority, had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him.
The moral majority is alive and well and worrying about Marchant Mews.
Incredible publicity, of course, but mouth-foaming vilification from the moral majority and the megabuck TV evangelists.
The leader was a Fundamentalist preacher (Ben didn't ask of what) who reminded Ben of a certain member of the old Moral Majority (title self-proclaimed).
Arlo was a decent man who wanted to stay one step ahead of the Moral Majority.
Never know when the Moral Majority's going to go Ayatollah ape-shit.
But it's everywhere nowadays, on TV, the moral majority, even in business.