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  • Terror Network or Lone Wolf?

    Disparate Legal Treatment of Muslims and the Radical Right

    In April 2014, an armed encampment formed at the Nevada cattle ranch of Cliven Bundy as news spread through militia networks about the confrontation between the 67-year-old rancher and the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM began to impound Bundy’s…

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  • The Politics of Stories

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  • CitizenLink Prepares to “Muscle Up” for [One-Man-One-Woman] Marriage

    The new president of one of the most powerful conservative organizations in the country is well-steeped in the Christian Right’s scheme to redefine the meaning of religious freedom into a weapon designed to roll-back LGBTQ rights and attack…

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  • Who Speaks for Conservative Women?

    “Feminisms” for Life, Liberty, and Politics
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    n 1979, the rise of feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment motivated conservative evangelical Beverly LaHaye to found Concerned Women for America, established as an overtly anti-feminist female voice. Yet CWA has clung to relevance over the years,…

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  • When in Doubt, Religify!

    Fear Mongering about Religious Liberty

    So much of the contemporary religious liberty campaign being conducted by the Christian Right is demagogic fear-mongering designed to justify discrimination against other Americans, particularly LGBTQ people. While most of our attention is directed…

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  • The Vatican's Hypocrisy Endangers LGBTQ People Worldwide

    “If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him?” Pope Francis told reporters in July 2013. In January 2015, Pope Francis…

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  • California’s “Shoot the Gays” Ballot Initiative Serves as Permission Slip for African Conservatives

    The news that a Christian lawyer named Matt McLaughlin submitted a proposed ballot initiative in California that would require the execution of all LGBTQ people may sound laughable in the United States, but McLaughlin’s goal might not actually be to…

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  • How the Right is Co-Opting #BlackLivesMatter to Roll Back Repro Rights

    The Right’s success in reframing and co-opting social justice movements has derailed more than one progressive campaign. Among them is an emerging effort to convert the “Black Lives Matter” rallying cry into an anti-abortion one.

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  • Profile on the Right: The International Franchise Association

    IFA has become the lead organization that is fighting to block legislation that would promote fair labor standards and hold franchisors (or brands) accountable for labor violations.

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  • Christian Right Leaders Escalate Anti-LGBTQ Threats

    As marriage equality has advanced around the country, and the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on the issue in June, threatening language is escalating on the Christian Right. If these culture warriors actually follow through with their threats,…

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  • The Right’s Dangerous Duo

    Robert P. George & Rick Warren

    The two men are experimenting with their own version of complementarity, each playing distinct roles in the manipulation of religious liberty arguments. In his usual behind-the-scenes way, George has been acting as one of the primary strategists,…

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  • Growing Mormon-Catholic Alliance

    Quiet Partners Behind Christian Right’s Religious Discrimination Agenda

    While Tony Perkins, Brian Brown, Bryan Fischer, and other Christian Right pundits of the more shrill variety may be easy to ignore as they demand a right to discriminate on Fox News, there is a more dangerous coalition emerging. One of the primary…

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  • Profile on the Right: Oath Keepers

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    Oath Keepers is one of the largest anti-government “patriot” groups in the nation. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) includes the organization in its list of Hate and Extremist Groups and its Patriot Movement Timeline. Oath Keepers differs from…

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  • Catholics, Conservatives and Capitalism

    This article is a sidebar to Peter Montgomery’s 2015 article in The Public Eye magazine, …

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  • Biblical Economics

    The Divine Laissez-Faire Mandate

    Reconstructionists argue that the Bible, indeed God Himself, opposes minimum wage laws, capital gains taxes and progressive income taxes.

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  • Not All the Same

    Christian Right's Hobby Lobbyization of State RFRAs

    Since the Hobby Lobby v. Burwell Supreme Court ruling in 2014, Christian Right agencies like Alliance Defending Freedom, the Becket Fund, the Mormon Church, and their allies at the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops, have pushed state…

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  • The Art of Activism: Helen Zughaib

    Helen Zughaib came to her longtime home in Washington, D.C., by way of many other nations. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, she also lived in Iraq, Kuwait, Greece and France, before coming to the United States to earn her BFA at Syracuse University in 1981…

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  • Promoting Anti-LGBTQ Bullying in Schools

    Focus on the Family's "Day of Dialogue"

    Though framed as a “free-speech initiative” dedicated to preserving students’ “religious freedom,” Focus on the Family’s annual Day of Dialogue functionally serves as an anti-LGBTQ promotional vehicle, encouraging and equipping young Christians to…

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  • Chain Restaurants Post Record Profits While Lobbying to Pay Workers Less

    Restaurants have shifted labor costs onto the backs of tipped workers and their customers—and some big chain restaurants are lobbying state lawmakers to keep it that way.

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  • The Overlooked Indiana Outcomes that Could Haunt the Christian Right

    The Christian Right’s strategy has suffered some powerful losses of late. It is good to take notice.

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