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religious right

NOUN
  1. United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools

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  • It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms.
  • A great many (not all) liberals adopted embryonic stem cells as a cause for the same reason that they have embraced Global Warming: because they like the policy implications and automatically oppose the Bush Administration, the “neocons” and the “Religious Right”, not because they are willing to follow science whithersoever it leadeth. Stromata Blog:
  • But religious right leaders had adamantly opposed him because of his views on abortion and affirmative action.
  • If you buy the biblical spin of the Religious Right folks -- that make up the bulk of the Tea Party movement -- the implication is clear: Jesus will soon return, send all Democrats, gays, blacks, progressives, liberals, college-educated unbelievers, etc., to Hell, while saving what Sarah Palin calls "us" "Real Americans" -- in other words unreconstructed frightened and resentful white lower middle class Americans. AlterNet
  • The difficulty is that, just as the religious right believes wholeheartedly that it is the one true way, secularists are adamant about their beliefs and intolerant of those who do not share them.
  • Suddenly, the new religious right saw him as a dangerous free-thinker. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man. On Same-Sex Couples and Catfish Derbies
  • There religious rights continued to be governed by international law, the treaty of Westphalia.
  • “The Clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.” — Think Progress » The Right’s New Strategy: Anti-Alito = Anti-God
  • He has previously courted the religious right with his strong line on homosexuality and sexual purity.
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