religious right

Other forms: religious rights

Definitions of religious right
  1. noun
    United States political faction that advocates social and political conservatism, school prayer, and federal aid for religious groups and schools
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    type of:
    right, right wing
    those who support political or social or economic conservatism; those who believe that things are better left unchanged
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