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The Guardian: US anti-abortion groups received millions in federal Covid-19 aid - July 8, 2020

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“’What we’re seeing with this is a lightyear leap into direct government financing of major A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more 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 Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but also can describe broader conservative religious coalitions that are not limited to Christians. Can include right-wing Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, and members of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Learn more .

“The discrepancy in how Planned Parenthood and Christian A movement that emerged in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, a decision which prevented states from outlawing abortion under most circumstances. Learn more groups were treated after they received coronavirus stimulus money, “is absolutely a double standard”, Clarkson said. ‘That’s an egregious violation of ethical norms.’”

“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.’”

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