ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the activities of the Illinois state chapter of the Moral Majority and considers the actual power that it wielded. The Illinois state chapter of the Moral Majority was created in January 1980 at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois. The Illinois Moral Majority also held training seminars that taught staff and voter registration leaders how to register voters and get them to the voting booth. The majority of studies of the Religious Right movement, and the Moral Majority in particular, dismiss the state chapters as a whole as a set of moribund, insignificant groups. Although some studies examine local education, business and city policies that deal with textbooks, homosexual rights, women's rights, and free speech on the part of Religious Right organizations, they do not collectively speak to the broader, national implications of the Religious Right. The Moral Majority, its national supporters, and its state chapters were instrumental in the new wave of Christian political involvement.
