Impact Of The New Christian Right

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The New Christian Right was a conservative force that had grew and spread rapidly in the United States in recent thirty or forty years. It had a feature which was having the strong support for the conservative society and political values. The New Christian Right was grouped by thousands of Americans of integrity, various Right wing institutions, organizations and media, all kinds of Christian Right leaders and politicians, and its Infrastructure of the Right-wing ideology. The New Christian Right believed that the weakness of the American religious traditional value function caused the anomie of the social life nowadays. The massive anomie of the social life further extended to the social economic life. Then it caused people not acting according

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