Christian Right

Under the guise of an anti-bullying campaign, seventh graders in six health classes have been subjected to a video promoting ex-gay therapy this school year, until media attention forced the Maryland school district to pull the harmful film.

The new celebrity of Dr. Ben Carson.

In 2008, millions of California voters saw this scene play out on their television screens: A young mother is working away in the kitchen as her little daughter comes home from school. Brandishing a copy of the gay-themed children’s book King & King, the child excitedly tells her mother: “Mom! Guess what I learned in school today! I learned that a prince can marry a prince, and I can marry a princess!” The mother’s reaction turns to horror, then consternation, as a narrator warns that this will happen in schools across the state should same-sex marriage remain legal.

Guys, the video mocks Tarantino, not… forget it.

What McLaren is after is a Christian faith that is not automatically hostile to other faiths and to no faith: he calls this “strong-benevolent” Christianity, observing along the way that only active peacemakers can really claim to be connected to God with any real degree of credibility—a point that should be obvious but isn’t.

Yesterday, Political Research Associates hosted a briefing call for marriage advocates featuring our new report, The Right’s Marriage Message, a critical resource for understanding trends in anti-LGBTQ messaging and effectiveness.

From 2009 to 2010, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) set about the once-a-decade task of writing curriculum standards for Texas’ almost five million school children. Claiming that “Academia is skewed too far to the left,” right-wing Board members voted to undermine the teaching of evolution and rewrite history from a Christian nationalist perspective.

As the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade passed, evangelical leaders marked the occasion with histories of how their community took up the anti-abortion cause.

On Friday, NPR’s Latino USA ran a segment, “The Agenda of the Lamb,” on Latino evangelical powerhouse Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, whose upcoming book of the same name has a message: “God is not done with America. And America is not done with God.”

The day after it was announced that Louie Giglio, an Atlanta pastor, founder of the Passion movement and campaigner against human trafficking, had been chosen to deliver the benediction at President Obama’s second inauguration, an old sermon of his surfaced. OK, it didn’t…