Moral Majority
American right-wing Christian political organization / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Moral Majority was an American political organization and movement associated with the Christian right and the Republican Party in the United States. It was founded in 1979 by Baptist minister Jerry Falwell Sr. and associates, and dissolved in the late 1980s. It played a key role in the mobilization of conservative Christians as a political force and particularly in Republican presidential victories throughout the 1980s.
Oxford Dictionaries defines the term as a "right-wing movement in the US formed in the 1970s."[1]