The Guardian: US anti-abortion groups received millions in federal Covid-19 aid - July 8, 2020
“’What we’re seeing with this is a lightyear leap into direct government financing of major Christian right political entities on a scale we’ve never seen before,’ said Frederick Clarkson, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, an expert on the American religious right.
“The discrepancy in how Planned Parenthood and Christian anti-abortion groups were treated after they received coronavirus stimulus money, “is absolutely a double standard”, Clarkson said. ‘That’s an egregious violation of ethical norms.’”
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“One of the most important efforts housed by the AFA, according to Clarkson, is the American Renewal Project, an electoral project of the Republican campaign strategist David Lane. Lane believes the United States needs to “re-establish a Christian culture”, and called for a religious war in a 2013 essay headlined ‘Wage war to restore a Christian nation.’”