influence of the religious right
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- HOW INFLUENTIAL WAS THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT 1981-1992?
- promotion of traditional values
- Jerry Falwell Baptist Minister
- Old Time Gospel hour tv and radio show
- 225 tv stations and 300 radio stations
- set up 'moral majority' organisation
- set up in 1978
- raised millions for Reagan's campaign
- esitmated egistered 2 million voters
- abandoned in 1989
- Old Time Gospel hour tv and radio show
- Jim Bakker reverend
- found Praise the Lord Ministry 1974
- TV show and theme park
- found Praise the Lord Ministry 1974
- appointed conservative minded to US supreme court
- including 400 judges
- frightened liberals with several decisions chipping away at roe vs wade
- end of Reagan presidency he had appointed 50% of federal judiciary
- influenced Reagan alot
- e.g. criticised federal courts for not allowing creationism
- however couldnt get the necessary 2/3 majority of congress
- failed to endorse the Family Protection Act
- Jerry Falwell Baptist Minister
- campaigns against abortion and homosexuality
- successful
- Regan persuaded Congress to fund 'Charity Clinics'
- encouraged women to avoid sex
- Reagan's judicial appointments resulted in supreme court ruling hindering abortion
- Webster vs Reproductive Service of Missouri 1989
- Missouri could deny women access to public abortion facilities
- Webster vs Reproductive Service of Missouri 1989
- abortion most successful of all campaigns
- pressure on courts and legislations made abortion access harder
- Beverly La Haye set up Concerned Women for America (CWA)
- 500,000 strong membership more than NOW
- Phyllis Schalafy
- helped set up NRLC
- National Right to Life Campaign
- 11 million supporters in 1980
- National Right to Life Campaign
- led campaign against roe vs wade
- helped set up NRLC
- Regan persuaded Congress to fund 'Charity Clinics'
- not successful
- following Justice Brennan's retirement from Supreme Court1990
- 1981 - Reagan appointed Sandra Day O conner to supreme court
- had a high record of sympathy towards women in need of abortions
- following webster RR hoped other states would follow missouri
- only 3 states did
- webster did not overturn Roe vs Wade
- successful
- Nancy Reagan just say no campaign
- drug taking 'american disease'
- recreational drug use had tripled since 1970
- around 40 million Americans used illegal substances
- recreational drug use had tripled since 1970
- discourage young people being inviolved with drugs
- money raised spent on punishment rather than rehabilitation
- 1982: national federation of parents for a drug free youth
- national crusade for a drug free america anti drug abuse bill
- cocaine used by high school students dropped
- dropped by 1/3 from 6.2% in 1986 and 4.3% in 1987
- main focus on children not on the rest of america
- dropped by 1/3 from 6.2% in 1986 and 4.3% in 1987
- high school weed daily smokers dropped
- 10% in 1978 and 8% in 1987
- drug taking 'american disease'
- promotion of traditional values
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