Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, which helped Mr Reagan to win the 1980 election, is defunct.
The moral majority will tighten its hold on corporate life, first in America, but then elsewhere too.
It is clear that Mr Graham has felt most comfortable with conservatives of the old, pre-Moral Majority stamp.
Billy Graham's autobiography is a reminder that evangelical Protestantism is a far older and deeper current in American life that the politicised Christianity of the Moral Majority.
Liberty may be a mandatory whistle-stop for Republican presidential aspirants, who come to deliver commencement addresses and grab photo ops with the founding father of the Moral Majority.
But every time he encroaches into an area that concerns what used to be called the "moral majority" he risks sparking the cultural war he is desperate to avoid.
Falwell was soon joined by Godwin, a former executive director of the Moral Majority, then an executive at the Washington Times, followed by a second tour with Falwell in 1999.
In the 1980s, when his Moral Majority claimed six million members, when U.S. news and world report named him one of the 25 most influential Americans and when he delivered the benediction after Ronald Reagan was nominated at the 1984 Republican convention.
He has started to distance himself from his moral-majority supporters.
He vigorously dissented from both Romer and Lawrence, arguing for the right of a democratic majority to embody its moral views in the law.
The same poll found that a clear majority (58%) believed America had a moral obligation to help keep the peace in Kosovo, whereas only a minority (42%) was persuaded that America ought to get involved to protect its national interests.
These are hard questions and for the Tories, swamped by Labour's huge majority, raising them offers an alluring combination of populist appeal and moral high-ground.
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