While the influence of the Christian right is typically traced to the 1980 Presidential election, Daniel K. Williams argues in God's Own Party that it had actually been involved in politics for most of the twentieth century.
虽然基督教右翼的影响力通常可以追溯到1980年的总统选举，但丹尼尔·K·威廉姆斯在上帝自己的党内辩称，它实际上在二十世纪的大部分时间里都参与了政治。