Christian right Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Education=== The [[Home School Legal Defense Association]] was co-founded in 1983 by [[Michael Farris (lawyer)|Michael Farris]], who would later establish [[Generation Joshua]] and [[Patrick Henry College]], and Michael Smith. This organization attempts to challenge laws that serve as obstacles to allowing parents to home-school their children and to organize the disparate group of homeschooling families into a cohesive bloc. The number of homeschooling families has increased in the last twenty years, and around 80 percent of these families identify themselves as evangelicals.<ref>Rosin, God's Harvard, 2007, 61β62</ref> The main universities associated with the Christian right in the United States are: * [[Bob Jones University]] β Protestant Fundamentalist institution, founded in 1927.<ref name=haberman>{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2005.00111.x | volume=67 | issue=2 | title=Into the Wilderness: Ronald Reagan, Bob Jones University, and the Political Education of the Christian Right | year=2005 | journal=The Historian | pages=234β253 | last1 = Haberman | first1 = Aaron| s2cid=143885519 }}</ref> * [[Christendom College]] β Roman Catholic institution, founded in 1977<ref name="Askin(Organization)1994">{{cite book|last=Askin|first=Steve|title=A new Rite: conservative Catholic organizations and their allies|date=February 1, 1994|publisher=Catholics for a Free Choice|language=en }}</ref> * [[Liberty University]] β Baptist institution, founded in 1971<ref name="Anderson2014">{{cite book|last=Anderson|first=John|title=Conservative Christian Politics in Russia and the United States|date=September 19, 2014|publisher=Routledge|language=en |isbn=9781317606635|page=164|quote=Some Christian Right leaders established their own institutions, such as Pat Robertson's Regents University and Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.}}</ref> * [[Regent University]] β Evangelical Christian institution, founded in 1977<ref name="Anderson2014"/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page