“The Moral Majority was a prominent American political organization associated with the Christian right and Republican Party. 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.”

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Jerry Falwell Sr.’s decision to establish the Moral Majority went against the traditional Baptist principle of separating religion and politics. When you mix the intolerance and bigotry of Southern evangelicalism with the corruption and moral relativism of politics the result is the corruption of society as a whole.

The Moral Majority wasn’t a majority, they were a minority in our secular ethnically and religiously diverse democracy, but they caused a lot of harm.

The Moral Majority sought to mobilize religious conservatives to become politically active on issues such as pornography, abortion and homosexuality.

You can’t legislate your version of morality, and the Moral Majority was an abject failure when it came to banning pornography, restricting abortion and disenfranchising gays and lesbians.

In the 1980’s it was very difficult to access pornography, you had to be of legal age to buy a Penthouse or Playboy magazine, and you likewise had to be at least 18 to attend one of the few porn theatres that were mainly located in big cities. Today the most hardcore pornography is available online to everyone, including children. A Playboy magazine is considered a quaint and almost wholesome relic of a bygone era.

Falwell had his panties in a twist over Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision of the Supreme Court that protects a woman’s freedom to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. Conservatives are still trying to overthrow Roe v. Wade, and they may very well succeed if Trump is reelected, but for the time being abortion is still legal in every state.

In Falwell’s era gays and lesbians were a persecuted minority, and they weren’t allowed to serve openly in the military, adopt children or get married. They were a despised community, and nobody, evangelical or secular persons, blinked an eye when they were called faggots, dykes or cocksuckers. Today gays and lesbians can marry, serve openly and proudly in the military and adopt children. According to a 2019 Pew Research poll, a majority of Americans (61%) support same-sex marriage and even 29% of evangelicals support it.

White evangelicals are on the wrong side of history common sense and demographics, and don’t let your hearts be troubled, this too shall pass. The white evangelical Trump supporters aren’t our future, these Neanderthals are dead bigots walking.