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re·li·gious right

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  1. religious rightnoun

    United States political faction that advocates social and political conservativism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of religious right in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of religious right in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of religious right in a Sentence

  1. Shaun Mellors:

    The fundamentalist religious right has loads of money and is coming in Africa to talk to members of parliament and first ladies and share family values, as in traditional heterosexual family values.

  2. Robert Graham:

    Kelli Ward did a masterful job capitalizing on Ward's' phonyisms,' the religious right freaked and abandoned Kelli Ward and the immigration people consider Kelli Ward soft.

  3. Kelly Wright:

    Like patriotism, religion can be sometimes used as a weapon, or to support someone’s own narrative or fears and prejudices. These Christian-fringe, Roy Moore, do-what-I-say- not-what-I-do people––they’re not very Jesus-like. I see them as fringe the way I see ISIS as fringe, but when we look at the fringe as a whole, it’s dangerous. That’s why there’s the Muslim ban. They’re taking a tiny fraction of a people that’s loud and making it the entire people. That’s dangerous. The left often does that with the religious right. The religious right is not all of religion. The notion of religious freedom used to be this beautiful notion that all religions can come here and practice. What it’s become is legal homophobia—or racism.

  4. Bill Donohue:

    The most basic religious right is the right to believe; if conscience rights can be vitiated, the First Amendment means nothing, macy’s has no legal, or moral grounds to stand on.

  5. Tina Wray:

    The interest of the nones will soon outweigh those of the religious right in just a matter of years, nones are going to vote as a bloc and they’re going to be pretty powerful. White evangelicals will eventually be eclipsed by the unaffiliated.


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