Dreapta creștină, de asemenea denumită și dreapta religioasă, este un termen politic folosit pentru facțiunile politice creștine caracterizate printr-un puternic sprijin pentru politicile social-conservatoare și tradiționaliste.[1][2] Conservatorii creștini doresc să influențeze politica și politicile publice cu propriile interpretări asupra învățăturilor creștinismului.[3][4][5]
^ abDeckman, Melissa Marie (). School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. p. 48. ISBN9781589010017. Accesat în . More than half of all Christian right candidates attend evangelical Protestant churches, which are more theologically liberal. A relatively large number of Christian Right candidates (24 percent) are Catholics; however, when asked to describe themselves as either "progressive/liberal" or "traditional/conservative" Catholics, 88 percent of these Christian right candidates place themselves in the traditional category.
^Schweber, Howard (). „The Catholicization of the American Right”. The Huffington Post. Accesat în . In the past two decades, the American religious Right has become increasingly Catholic. I mean that both literally and metaphorically. Literally, Catholic writers have emerged as intellectual leaders of the religious right in universities, the punditocracy, the press, and the courts, promoting an agenda that at its most theoretical involves a reclamation of the natural law tradition of Thomas Aquinas and at its most practical involves appeals to the kind of common-sense, 'everybody knows,' or 'it just is' arguments that have characterized opposition to same-sex marriage ... Meanwhile, in the realm of actual politics, Catholic politicians have emerged as leading figures in the religious conservative movement.
^Bowers, Paige (). „Will the Recession Doom the Last Sunday Blue Laws?”. Time (în engleză). Accesat în . Those states — Georgia, Connecticut, Texas, Alabama and Minnesota — enjoy overwhelming voter support for an extra day of sales, but face opposition from members of the Christian right, who say that selling on Sunday undermines safety and tears apart families.
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^Sotelo, María Victoria; Arocena, Felipe (iulie 2021). „Evangelicals in the Latin American political arena: The cases of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay”. SN Social Sciences. Springer Nature. 1 (180). doi:10.1007/s43545-021-00179-6. ISSN2662-9283.