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Christian Right groups, as the name implies, consist primarily of Christians, many of them fundamentalists; some have been known to claim that their political positions are, or ought to be, the views of all Christians. In reality, American Christians hold a wide variety of political views.

Many elements of the Christian Right sympathize with, support, and sometimes influence the United States Republican Party. For example, such support is thought to have provided considerable backing for the campaign of U.S. President George W. Bush.

Issues which the Christian Right is (or is thought to be) primarily concerned with include:

• Banning or heavily restricting abortion.
• Banning some applications of bio-technology: bio-ethics.
• Opposition to the gay rights movement and the upholding of traditional family values.
• Opposition to the practice of gay or straight " sodomy" (usually meaning anal sex or oral sex outside of marriage, though sometimes within too).
• Support for the presence of Christianity in the public sphere, such as with prayer in school.
• Ending government funding restrictions against religious charities and schools, and similar matters.
• Opposition to U.S. court decisions widening the separation of church and state beyond historical tradition.
• Banning of books, music, television programs, films, etc. that they view as indecent (especially pornography).

In the past they also supported other ideas, most notably prohibitionFor the judicial writ of prohibition, see Prohibition (writ). For prohibition of drugs in general, see Prohibition (drugs . Prohibition was the period between 1919- 1932 in Finland (called 'kieltolaki'), between 1900 and 1948 in locations in Canada and be, abolitionismThis article is about the abolition of slavery. For a page on the general concept of abolition, see abolition. For information regarding the abolition of suffering, see abolitionist society. Great Britain and the United States. Abolitionism a political mo and civil rightsCivil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. Examples include the right to vote and anti- discrimination laws. Civil rights movements usually want equal protection of the laws for minorities,.

Prior to the September 11, 2001 attacksThe attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. Nineteen members of the al-Qaida militant Islamist group hijacked four aircraft. They crashed two into the two towers of the, the Christian Right considered foreign affairs an exercise in respecting national sovereignty, encouraging the peaceful spread of democracy and freedom of religion, and support of IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. as a matter of biblicalThe Bible (From Greek βιβλια biblia meaning "books", which in turn is derived from βυβλος byblos meaning "papyrus", from the ancient Phoenician city of Byblos which exported papyrus) doctrineDoctrine from Latin doctrina (compare doctor , means "a body of teachings" or "instructions", taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system. The Greek analogy is the etymology of catechism. Often doctri. Since then, however, many of its most prominent spokespersons have joined with neoconservatives in strongly supporting the War on Terror in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Expressing profound sympathy for Israel, some have gone so far as to advocate the "transfer" of the Palestinian population from the West Bank to another Arabic nation ( Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt or Saudi Arabia) as the only viable long-term solution to the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East. The Reverend Franklin Graham, in particular, has been noted for his strident views, drawing secular criticism for his harsh remarks directed at Islam and for his travelling to Baghdad to conduct an open-air Good Friday service primarily for persecuted Assyrian Christians and Chaldean Christians on April 18, 2003, nine days after the city had fallen to American troops. Citing these and other statements and actions, some critics have taken to characterizing the post- 9/11 foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration and its most visible supporters as the Tenth Crusade.

Several leading figures of the Christian Right refer to Biblical prophecy in their support of Israel. The school of interpretation of Biblical prophecy in which Israel figures most prominently is called dispensationalism.