The Christian Coalition is a group of evangelical Protestant Conservatives who seeks to preserve traditional values. It has about 2 million members scattered throughout the United States. Their big issues revolve around promoting religious and family values, laissez-faire economics, support of Israel and school prayer. It opposes abortion, gun control, gay rights and secularism. Never mind that some of these values actually end up contradicting each other. This organization was established in the late-1970's under the name Moral Majority as a reaction to the New Left movements of the 1960's which sought greater secularization of society. It probably was most influential during the 1990's; it played a major role in the Republican Revolution of 1994 which brough a definite rightward slant to the US Congress. As of late, this organization is declining in membership, probably because of disillusionment over the culture wars. I think that this group reacted too extremely to the movement politics of the 1960's. It seems to me that they blur the lines between church and state a bit too much, although I believe equally that the New Left movements probably sought to take religious values out of the public square, thus violating other people's rights. The simple truth is that we need to respect other people's values a bit more. In reality, that is what the constitution guarantees for all of us, the right to freely express our religion and speech. Both sides in the cultures are wrong, but what do you expect from these dogmatic types anyways.