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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

Marriage Vote 'Transforms' Not-So-Catholic Ireland; Activist to Malaysian PM - 'Love Is Not Terrorism'; LGBTs Find Growing Acceptance in Colombia, Not At World Meeting of Families; Global LGBT Recap

Islamic State: Nine men reportedly executed for sodomy; UN Security Council hears testimony Islamic State militants reportedly executed nine men on Sunday “on charges of sexual perversion.” The…
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Istanbul 'Haven of Sorts' For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with 'Holy Bible Evidence'; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia's 'Islam-Based' Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap

Richard Blanco, the openly gay Cuban-American poet who read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration, composed and read a poem for the ceremony reopening the U.S. embassy in Havana. Guatemalan…
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'Barbaric' v 'Progressive' Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

Islam: ‘Barbaric’ and Progressive The United Nations ambassadors from the US and Chile have invited members of the UN Security Council to an August 24 meeting to discuss the “barbaric treatment” of…
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