Robert Billings

Moral Majority Founded - Corporate Agenda Masked by Religious Cultural Warfare

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In June 1979, Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell founded the Moral Majority during a meeting at a Holiday Inn in Lynchburg, Virginia, with Weyrich coining the term “moral majority.” The organization represented a strategic alliance between corporate interests and religious conservatives, …

Paul Weyrich Jerry Falwell Richard Viguerie Howard Phillips Ed McAteer +2 more religious-right cultural-warfare corporate-funding grassroots-mobilization new-right +1 more
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