Moral Majority

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/4/2022
  

  The Ongoing Legacy of Direct-Mail Grievance Politics

  by L. Benjamin Rolsky

  By privatizing political discourse, the pioneers of direct mail advertising could solicit funds at the same time as they stoked the fears of a targeted set of voters; this worked to bring the religious right into the heart of the Republican Party. 

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• 10/24/2021
  

  How the Republicans Became the Anti-Abortion Party, and What it Means for the GOP Today

  by Donne Levy

  Conservative evangelicals rode the abortion issue to a place of power in the Republican coalition. Will their success help or harm the party now that abortion rights are more imperiled than at any time since 1973? 

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• SOURCE: New Republic
  4-5-18
  

  How birth-control leaders found allies in American religious groups

  by Linda Gordon

  "I suspect that I am not the only secular person who often assumed, however unconsciously, that politically active religious groups in America today are mainly illiberal."