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The Public Eye, Spring 2009

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Younger Evangelicals

Where Will They Take the Christian Right?
A White man wearing a sweater, with glasses and a bandana and dreadlocks.

Last October a chartered bus rolled deep through the South, its passengers college-aged young people drawing inspiration from the Freedom Riders of the 1960s. The black vinyl advertising plastered on the side broadcast the riders’ goals, “Equality…

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New Tactics and Coalitions Take Aim at Planned Parenthood

A sign that says "I stand with planned parenthood"

For the leaders and workers of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, attacks from right-wing foes are nothing new. Almost from the moment that the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973, the federation and its clinics have been in the…

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Tying the Not

How the Right Succeeded in Passing Proposition 8
A group of people holding signs that read "Vote No on Prop 8"

On June 26, 2008, 1,000 ministers, mostly from evangelical congregations, met by conference call to discuss tactics for passing Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to ban same sex marriage in California by amending the state constitution.

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