Religious Right Movement 19th Century

The Religious Right movement in the late 19th century arose in reaction to theological modernism. Some tried to balance out the religious interests with the society secular and material ones while others didn’t want to change the religious values. With Carter becoming the United States president, the evangelical religion started to be more influential. Even before he became president, churches use to get involved in political life, but during the 1960s the number of evangelical churches in the Sothern and Eastern suburban were rapidly increasing with members who underestimated religion and promoted immoralities. Other evangelicals with a different religious view started to go against them and requested to cancel the Supreme Court decisions
of excluding prayers from schools, legalizing abortions and promoting pornography. Even though they intended to keep the traditional religious values, the Religious Right adapted the modern technology and they started to promote and spread their messages through mass media and television. Even though, Christians were against Religious Right proponents and convict them for spreading a sexual revolution and spreading of immorality, during the 1960’s American freedom was uncontrollable and they couldn’t change much. The Religious Rights became even more powerful, on January 22nd, 1973 when the Supreme Court gave to ruling to Roe v. Wade and stated that all women have the right to choose to have an abortion. Some people consider this day as the Religious Rights birthday.