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The Christian right, otherwise referred to as the religious right, are Christian political factions characterized by their strong support of socially conservative and traditionalist policies. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Christian conservatives seek to influence politics and public policy with their interpretation of the teachings of Christianity .
In the mid-1960s the GOP debates race and civil rights intensely. Republican liberals, led by Nelson Rockefeller, argue for a strong federal role because it was morally right and politically advantageous. Conservatives call for a more limited federal presence and discount the possibility of significant black voter support.
An unexpected new factor was the emergence of the religious right as a cohesive political force that gave strong support to conservatism. [190] [191] By the 1950s, many conservatives emphasized the Judeo-Christian roots of their values. [192]
Billy James Hargis (August 3, 1925 – November 27, 2004) was an American Christian evangelist.At the height of his popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, his Christian Crusade ministry was broadcast on over 500 radio stations and 250 television stations.
The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in ...
In the 1970s, two more impulses were added with the addition of neoconservatives and the religious right. [ 1 ] : 344 Emmett Tyrrell , a right-wing writer, says, "the conservatism that, when it made its appearance in the early 1950s, was called the New Conservatism and for the past fifty or sixty years has been known as 'movement conservatism ...
William M. Branham (1909–1965), preacher and prophet, pacesetter and initiator of the Tent Revival Era of the 1940s and 1950s Merrill Unger (1909–1980), Old Testament professor at Dallas Theological Seminary , defender of biblical inerrancy
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