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In American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 politics, the term Secular Right refers to but is not exclusive to the libertarian
Libertarianism

Libertarianism is a term used by a political spectrum of Political philosophy which seek to promote individual liberty and seek to minimize or abolish the state....
, socially liberal
Liberalism

Liberalism is a broad class of political philosophy that considers individualism liberty and equality to be the most important political goals....
 or non-religious
Irreligion

File:Irreligion map.pngFile:Religion in the world.PNGFile:Believers - Religion map 2005.svgFile:Religious importance.pngIrreligion is an absence of religion, indifference to religion, or hostility to religion....
 wing of most conservative
Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante....
 movements or parties.








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In American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 politics, the term Secular Right refers to but is not exclusive to the libertarian
Libertarianism

Libertarianism is a term used by a political spectrum of Political philosophy which seek to promote individual liberty and seek to minimize or abolish the state....
, socially liberal
Liberalism

Liberalism is a broad class of political philosophy that considers individualism liberty and equality to be the most important political goals....
 or non-religious
Irreligion

File:Irreligion map.pngFile:Religion in the world.PNGFile:Believers - Religion map 2005.svgFile:Religious importance.pngIrreligion is an absence of religion, indifference to religion, or hostility to religion....
 wing of most conservative
Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social term whose meaning has changed in different countries and time periods, but which usually indicates support for the status quo or the status quo ante....
 movements or parties.

Beliefs

Most secular conservatives are fiscally conservative
Fiscal conservatism

Fiscal conservatism is a political phrase term used in North America to describe a fiscal policy that advocates a reduction in overall government spending....
, favoring laissez-faire
Laissez-faire

Laissez-faire is a term used to describe a policy of allowing events to take their own course. The term is a French language phrase literally meaning "let do"....
 capitalism
Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system in which wealth, and the means of producing wealth, are private property and controlled rather than commonly, publicly, or state-owned and controlled....
 or a free-market, and are proponents of such policies as a large and heavily-funded national defense system, a relaxation of gun control laws
Gun politics

Gun politics is a set of legal issues surrounding the ownership, use, and regulation of firearms as well as safety issues related to firearms both through their direct use and through legal and criminal use....
 and the destruction of welfare state
Welfare State

The Welfare State of the United Kingdom was prefigured in the William Beveridge Report in 1942, which identified five "Giant Evils" in society: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease....
 politics like most other conservatives.

However, on social issues
Social issues

Social issues are matters which directly or indirectly affects many or all members of a society and are considered to be problems, controversies related to moral values, or both....
, such as same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage and gay marriage are terms for a Law or socially recognized marriage between two people of the same sex. While state-sanctioned same-sex marriage is a relatively new phenomenon in the modern world, same-sex unions have been documented throughout human history....
, separation of church and state
Separation of church and state

Separation of church and state is a political and legal doctrine that government and religion institutions are to be kept separate and independent from each other....
, abortion
Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
, public decency
Decency

Decency is conformity to Society standards of conduct and speech.Standards of decency vary greatly depending on the cultural context. Most nations have laws against indecency which regulate certain sexual acts, and restrict one's ability to display certain parts of the body in public ....
, obscenity law
Obscenity

Obscenity , is a term that is most often used in a law context to describe expressions that offend the prevalent sexual morality of the time....
s and narcotic regulation, a large percentage of the Secular Right tends to favor deregulation of some or all of these practices, although may not necessarily agree with said practices; a notable exception being George Will
George Will

George Frederick Will is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Conservatism United States newspaper columnist, journalism, and author....
.

Heather Mac Donald
Heather Mac Donald

Heather Lynn Mac Donald is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor to the New York City Journal, and a former lawyer....
, who calls the Secular Right "Skeptical Conservatives", describes the group in an article of The American Conservative
The American Conservative

The American Conservative is a biweekly United States opinion magazine founded in 2002 by Scott McConnell, Pat Buchanan, and Taki Theodoracopulos....
.

Secularright.org

In November 2008, Mac Donald, Walter Olson
Walter Olson

Walter K. Olson is an author and blogger who writes mostly about tort reform. Olson is a longtime senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservatism think tank in New York City....
, Razib Khan, and John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire

John Derbyshire is a United Kingdom-United States author and columnist. He writes for the magazines National Review Online and on a broad range of topics, including immigration, China, history, mathematics, culture, politics, and Race ....
 started the Secular Right blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
.

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Contrast: Religious right
Religious right

The term Religious Right may refer to religiously motivated right wing movements such as*Christian right*Hindu nationalism *Islamism *Jewish right...
, Christian right
Christian right

The Christian right is a term used predominantly in the United States to describe a spectrum of right-wing politics Christian political and social movements and organizations characterized by their strong support of Conservatism social conservative and Republican Party values....
, Religious left
Religious left

Religious left is a term referring to religious movements with a left-wing or liberal agenda. For more information, see*Christian left*Jewish left...
, Secular left
Secular left

The secular left is a term used to describe members of the left-wing who are also secularists .The secular left is not necessarily opposed to the religious left....