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Learn More: belief in Hell , Believe , Don't believe. About Pew Research Center Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. An umbrella association for conservative Protestants, Catholics and Jews, the organization mobilized voters to elect politicians who would defend their values: supporting prayers and creationism in schools, supporting school vouchers and traditional sexual mores and opposition to abortion, pornography, obscenity and other perceived threats to the family.
The political turn rightward also affected denominations, particularly the Southern Baptist Convention, which between and had become the largest Protestant denomination in the nation and had replaced moderate leaders with conservatives. In the s, the religious right took on new issues, such as school vouchers, repackaged old ones, advocating that intelligent design rather than creationism be taught in science classrooms alongside evolution.
A Democratic White House for most of the decade ensured few victories for the religious right. One victory was the Defense of Marriage Act in , which required the federal government to hold as legal only such a marriage between a man and a woman until the Supreme Court ruled the statute unconstitutional in and legalized gay marriage across the nation in A high water mark for the religious right came after the election of George W.
Bush, the self-styled compassionate conservative whose evangelical faith featured prominently in his presidential campaigns. Bush earned praise from many in the religious right for supporting federal funding for faith-based charities while opposing funding for embryonic stem cell research, for advocating a "culture of life" against euthanasia and abortion, signing a partial-birth abortion ban into law in and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage after Massachusetts legalized it in The Religious Right has extended beyond Protestants and Catholics.
The Manhattan Declaration in made common cause among Protestant, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians for a pro-life, traditional marriage and religious liberty agenda. Jewish figures in the religious right have included Frank Meyer, cofounder of the conservative publication National Review and Ralph de Toledano, a journalist and editor for Newsweek and National Review.
House of Representatives, demonstrating the continuing connections between Jewish conservatives and the Republican Party. Mormons also gained prominence in the religious right in the early 21st century. The LDS church took a prominent role in opposing gay marriage, while the rise of right-wing pundit Glen Beck in and strong evangelical support for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the general election exemplified growing acceptance of Mormons in conservative politics.
The religious right remains a key constituent of the Republican Party and still exerts varying degrees of cultural and political influence in the early 21st century. Vitale Abington School District v. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States.
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This data parallels other scholarship unearthing racialized structures within white, American evangelicalism like the work of sociologist Robert P. Jones and religious studies scholar Anthea Butler. Likewise, historian Kristen Kobes Du Mez examines how hypermasculinity is embedded in American evangelicalism.
My research reveals communities of younger evangelicals who are expanding their religious boundaries and rethinking their stances on culture war issues, as well as questioning the merits of the culture war. These younger evangelicals are trying to reform their communities from within the tradition as loyal but highly critical members.
I observed several younger evangelicals working within their religious communities to encourage acceptance of those outside of the Christian tradition as co-religionists on similar faith paths. They herald interfaith interactions as positive. One interviewee proudly detailed to me how her church partnered with the local imam and Muslim community to educate each other on their religious practices and volunteered together at a local food bank. This kind of attitude typically is resisted by their older evangelical counterparts, as I learned in previous research.
Many traditional evangelicals believe that their faith is the sole path to religious redemption, and interfaith cooperation might harm their followers.
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