religious right
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- noun
- /rɪˈlɪdʒəs raɪt/
- Literature
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derecha religiosa
- Controversies surrounding the religious right often focus on their influence in American politics.
- religious right wing
- religious right groups
- religious right organization
And this is the Christian religious right because like we always say, there is no love like Christian hate.
- And this is the Christian religious right because like we always say, there is no love like Christian hate.
Examples
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The Alliance Defense Fund, a well-funded religious right legal group, backed them in court.
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The government and the religious right have been so busy worry about TV violence, pornography and the war on drugs, they let the dangerous idea slip by.
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What was behind the case in Memphis was the religious right.
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Now consider this: religious right groups complain constantly about public schools and the people who work in them.
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The political stance of the religious right went through a series of transformations.
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Thanks to the religious right, public schools remain contested battlegrounds in the "culture wars."
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Controversies like this may represent the next wave of religious right legal activism.
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All heads turn to Richard Rank, a surprisingly young and well-spoken spokesman for the religious right.
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Whatever the explanation, Promise Keepers is still one of the most formidable religious right-wing groups to watch.
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The religious right advocates for school prayer in public schools, emphasizing traditional values.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines the adjective 'religious' (pertaining to religion) with 'right' (the conservative political side) to denote the conservative, religion-oriented political movement; this meaning is directly inferable from the constituents. The adjective+noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows standard semantic combination, so a B1 learner who knows both words can reasonably understand the MWE's sense.
Etymology
Religious right comes from joining religious, meaning people who follow a faith, and right, meaning the political side often called 'conservative'. Imagine people who want laws to match their church values standing on the political right, and that's why the phrase means a political group that supports 'conservative' ideas based on religion.