When Ronald Reagan ran for office, he had not been particularly religious, but he was savvy enough to endorse Evangelicals and gain their support. This era really gave birth to the Religious Right. Falwell and other on the religious right, tried to argue that the U.S. was founded as a nation under the "Judeo-Christian ethic." He argued that the country needed to be run by God's principles. They called America to be governed by God's law.
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