Christian right

Examples of Christian right in the following topics:

• Additional Factors: Gender, Age, Religion, Race, and Ethnicity

  • The most prominent example of this in American politics is the Christian right, which consists of right-wing Christian political groups that are characterized by their strong support of socially conservative policies.
  • In the U.S., the Christian right is an informal coalition formed around a core of white evangelical Protestants that draws support from other groups who share their goals.
  • About 15% of the electorate in the United States supports the Christian right.
  • Much of the Christian right's power within the American political system is attributed to their extraordinary turnout rate at the polls.
  • The voters that identify with the Christian right are highly motivated and driven to deliver a viewpoint on issues they care about.

• Political Ideology

  • Among those who do identify as either liberal or conservative, few identify as "far left" or "far right. " Most Americans either identify as "moderate" or as "somewhat" liberal or conservative.
  • Modern American liberalism aims at the preservation and extension of human, social and civil rights as well as the government guaranteed provision of positive rights.
  • Moderates, who may be left or right leaning, incorporate different aspects from liberalism and conservatism into their personal perspective.
  • Three groups were identified as part of "the left," "the middle," and "the right. " In this categorization system, "the right" roughly represents the Republican base, those on "the left" the Democratic base and those in "the middle" independents.
  • In "the middle" are the optimistic and upwardly mobile "Upbeats", the discouraged and mistrusting "Disaffecteds," and the disenfranchised "Bystanders. " The right compromises the highly pro-business "Enterprisers," the highly religious "Social Conservatives" (also known as the Christian right), and the "Pro-Government Conservatives" who are largely conservative on social issues but support government intervention to better their economic disposition.

• Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement

  • Slavery continued until 1865, when abolitionists argued against its conditions as violating Christian principals and rights to equality.
  • In the US the conditions of slavery acted to dehumanize enslaved people denying them even basic rights.
  • As early as 1688, Quakers in Germantown, Pennsylvania presented a petition to end slavery based on religious obligation and natural rights to equality.
  • In 1774, a group of enslaved people in Massachusetts petitioned the governor against slavery used similar arguments including the natural rights of all people, the demands of Christian brotherhood, and the harsh conditions of slavery.
  • Frederick Douglass was a freed slave prominent abolitionist and rights advocate.

• Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement

  • The delegates argued for an end to slavery based on the often brutal conditions of slavery, as well as the ways in which slavery violated christian principals and basic human right to equality.
  • Women involved in the early abolitionists movement also began to connect demands for equal right to their own lives and experiences, advocating for expanded education, employment and political rights including suffrage.
  • A more progressive and radical strain of abolition maintained that rights and moral standing were universal, and that whether people were of African or European decent, men or women they were all due to equal treatment and rights.
  • While women did not gain the right to vote in all sates until 1920, there were still some victories won for women's rights in the period leading up to the Civil War.
  • One of the most notable was New York State granting property rights to married women.

• Ideological Interest Groups

  • Some examples of ideological interest groups include the National Organization for Women (NOW), the National Taxpayers Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Christian Coalition.
  • The current priorities for NOW include constitutional equality, violence against women, diversity/racism, abortion rights/reproductive issues, lesbian rights, and economic justice.
  • On the other hand, the Christian Coalition favors a conservative Christian ideology.
  • The stated goal of the organization is to represent Christians who support a traditional family point of view.The group works on a variety of more specific issues such as disputing abortion, improving traditional education, and lowering taxes.
  • Examples include the National Rifle Association (NRA), a gun rights advocacy group, or AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), an LGBTQ group advocating around AIDS research and health.

• The Traditional Political Spectrum

  • Most long-standing spectra include a right and left, and according to the simplest left-right axis, communism and socialism are usually regarded internationally as being on the left, opposite fascism and conservatism on the right.
  • The aristocracy sat on the right of the Speaker (traditionally the seat of honor) and the commoners sat on the Left, hence the terms right-wing and left-wing politics .
  • In left-right politics, right-wing describes an outlook or specific position that accepts or supports social hierarchy or social inequality.
  • Although the term 'right-wing' originally designated traditional conservatives and reactionaries, it has also been used to describe neo-conservatives, nationalists, Christian democrats, and classical liberals.
  • In modern parlance, left-right has acquired the added dimension of the balance of governmental power and individual rights, wherein moving left increases the power of government and moving right the rights of individuals.

• Civil Rights of Native Americans

  • Of those who survived, most were either forced off the land they inhabited or forced to convert to Christianity and work under Europeans.
  • Partly because of the reservation system, civil rights protections have often involved complex legal issues.
  • Congress passed the Indian Civil Rights Act, which gave tribal members protections from both the U.S.
  • Government and from rights infringements by tribal leaders.
  • Identify the modern civil rights issues that pertain to Native Americans in the United States

• Foundations of the Welfare State

  • Esping-Andersen constructed the welfare regime typology acknowledging the ideational importance and power of the three dominant political movements of the long 20th century in Western Europe and North America: Social Democracy, Christian Democracy and Liberalism.
  • Christian-democratic welfare states are based on the principle of subsidiarity and the dominance of social insurance schemes, offering a medium level of decommodification and a high degree of social stratification.
  • Unlike in Europe, Christian democratic and social democratic theories have not played a major role in shaping welfare policy in the United States.
  • Top left: The Tennessee Valley Authority, part of the New Deal, being signed into law in 1933.Top right: FDR (President Franklin Delano Roosevelt) was responsible for the New Deal.Bottom: A public mural from one of the artists employed by the New Deal's WPA program.
  • Compare and contrast the social-democratic welfare state, the Christian-democratic welfare state and the liberal welfare state

• Religious Freedom

  • Freedom of religion is considered by many nations to be a fundamental human right.
  • In the United States, freedom of religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right provided in the religion clauses of the First Amendment.
  • Their opponents emphasize what they see as the largely Christian heritage and history of the nation (often citing the references to "Nature's God" and the "Creator" of men in the Declaration of Independence. )
  • Many human rights organizations have urged the United States to be even more vigorous in imposing sanctions on countries that do not permit or tolerate religious freedom.

• Political Values

  • As such, values reflect a person's sense of right and wrong or what "ought" to be.
  • "Equal rights for all", "Excellence deserves admiration", and "People should be treated with respect and dignity" are representative of values.
  • The Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World , created by sociopolitical scientists, Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel, is based on the World Values Survey.
  • The Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, created by sociopolitical scientists Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel based on the World Values Survey.