Moral Majority

Pat Robertson speaks during a forum at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., in 2015. Robertson was a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition.

Religion
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National

Pat Robertson, televangelist and a leader of the religious right, dies at 93

1:29pm June 08, 2023

by Sarah McCammon

Pat Robertson founded the Christian Broadcasting Network. He also hosted The 700 Club and drew controversy for comments that were often seen as anti-gay and racially insensitive.

Dozens of clergy members, immigration activists and others participate in a protest against the imprisonment and potential deportation of an immigration activist. Religious liberals are becoming increasingly outspoken in their opposition to many Trump adm

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Politics & Government
Religion

Provoked By Trump, The Religious Left Is Finding Its Voice

12:49pm January 24, 2019

by Tom Gjelten

The Trump administration has inspired a new activism on the part of liberal religious groups. Like the Moral Majority of the 1980s, they fear an assault on their most basic Christian values.

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