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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Peter Montgomery

Peter Montgomery is Research Director at People For the American Way and oversees its Right Wing Watch project. His work focuses on threats to democracy and democratic values posed by the 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 and its political allies.

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Religion Dispatches

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey's AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (pronounced iggle-hurk) announced last Monday that it has formally changed its name to OutRight Action International, with a tagline of “human…
Peter Montgomery
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Religion Dispatches

Pope's US Visit Provokes Intense Attention; New Vatican Book on Man-Woman Complementarity & New Int'l Report on Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality; Global LGBT Recap

The United Kingdom’s Stonewall has published “Christian Role Models for LGBT Equality,” a booklet that tells the stories of 20 Christians from 15 countries on six continents, with a foreward by Bishop…
Peter Montgomery
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Religion Dispatches

California Tribes Denounce Catholic Church's "Fraud" and "Blatant Fabrication" on Serra Sainthood

It is as if we—California Indians and our Ancestors—are merely canonization fodder.
Peter Montgomery
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