Proper noun
Moral Majority
(US) A faction of the US Republican Party whose policies include conservatism on social and personal matters, infusing religion into the American political process.
Once embraced by televangelist Jerry Falwell, the founder of Moral Majority and the person most directly responsible for bringing the evangelical movement into the Republican Party, religiously fueled homophobia reached unprecedented heights. Source: Internet
And they’re slow, too: the right-wing media blitz has been going on since the late 1970s (again, I’m old enough to remember Anita Bryant, the Moral Majority, etc.), and so many of them are just now figuring out that something might be wrong. Source: Internet
The Moral Majority collapsed in 1989, but its influence lived on in policies enshrined by Reagan in the 1980s and Bill Clinton in the ’90s, a decade during which images of teenage moms were tied back to the stereotype of the dark-skinned single mother. Source: Internet
He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy ) in 1967 and Liberty University in 1971 and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979. Source: Internet
In addition to the EP's controversial artwork depicting a gold Christ figure on a cross of dollar bills, the lyrics contained Biafra's most biting social and political commentary yet, and songs such as " Moral Majority ", " Nazi Punks Fuck Off! Source: Internet
In 1984, Falwell’s Moral Majority ran massive voter-registration drives on Reagan’s behalf. Source: Internet