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The Moral Majority movement was an organization made up of conservative Christian political action
groups, which campaigned on issues it believed central to upholding its Christian conception of the moral law, a perception it believed represented the majority of people's opinions,
hence the movement's name. The organization officially dissolved in 1989 but lives on in the Christian Coalition network initiated by Pat
Robertson. With a membership of millions the Moral Majority was one of the largest conservative lobby groups in the
United States. Among issues it campaigned on were:
The Moral Majority had adherents in the two major United States political parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, though it exercised more influence
on the former than the latter.
Though it claimed to represent the views of the majority of citizens, opinion polls as well as election and referendum
outcomes suggest that it was less representative of public opinion than its name suggests. This, combined with what some saw as
discrimination and elitism, led a humorist to remark, "The Moral Majority is neither moral nor a majority." The phrase has been
repeated to the point where the original attribution is lost to history.
Compare with Moralism
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