Christian right : Religious right
The Christian right, or more generally the religious right, is a broad label applied to a number of political and/or religious movements with particularly conservative or right wing views. While such elements are found in many nations, the term is most commonly applied to groups within the United States.Christian right groups, as the name implies, consist primarily of Christians, many of them Fundamentalists; some have been known to claim that their political positions are, or ought to be, the views of all Christians. In reality, American Christians hold a wide variety of political views.
Many elements of the Christian right sympathize with, support, and sometimes influence the United States Republican Party. For example, such support is thought to have provided considerable backing for the campaign of U.S. President George W. Bush.
Issues with which the Christian right is (or is thought to be) primarily concerned include opposition to the accessibility of abortion; legal rights of unborn children; opposition to much of the gay rights movement and the upholding of what they consider to be "traditional family values"; opposition to the right of all people gay and straight of being allowed to have anal sex or oral sex; and support for the presence of Christianity in the public sphere, as with school-sponsored prayer, government funding for religious charities and schools, and similar matters, regardless in many cases of the U.S. tradition of Separation of Church and State.
Contrast: Christian left[?]
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his feat in the Polar regions, and the charming Narrative he gave
cultivated circles, male and female, on that occasion;
suppressed, assents in a grandly modest way. His Portraits are in
out (at which there is some laughing): a coarse-featured,
finely complacent for the nonce; in copious dressing-gown and fur
HE had done it), with his left hand; and with the other, and its
"Are not we!" answers Voltaire by and by, with endless waggeries
days, writes this Autograph; which who of men or lions
TO MONSIEUR DE MAUPERTUIS, at Paris.
(No date;--datable, June, 1740.)
"My heart and my inclination excited in me, from the moment I
put our Berlin Academy into the shape you alone are capable of
the graft of the Sciences, that it may bear fruit. You have shown
it is to possess such a man as you.
"Monsieur de Maupertuis,--votre tres-affectionne
"FEDERIC" (SIC).
"Federic," instead of "Frederic," is, by this time, the common
case?--got into the Newspapers; glorious for Friedrich, glorious
Maupertuis is on the road, and we shall see him before long.
abroad, in those summer months and long afterwards.
June 22d, 1740, the GEISTLICHE DEPARTEMENT (Board of Religion, we
been in use these eight years past, for children of soldiers
perverted, directly in the teeth of Royal Ordinance, 1732, to
annexing, "is the specific Report of Fiscal-General to this
us to do?
His Majesty writes on the margin these words, rough and ready,
indicating a mind made up on one subject, which was much.
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