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Profiles on the Right: Jim Daly

Jim Daly is President/CEO of the evangelical, socially conservative public policy nonprofit Focus on the Family (FOF), which was founded by one of America’s most influential and hard-line Right Wing Christian conservatives, James Dobson. In 2004…

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Exodus in the Global Context: "Ex-Gay" Therapy Continues Across the Americas

This is a modified excerpt from PRA’s 2013 report, The “Ex-Gay” Movement in Latin America: Therapy and Ministry in the Exodus Network, by Jandira Queiroz, Fernando D’Elio, and Davis Maas. On Wednesday, Exodus International Executive Director…

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Even As Exodus International Closes, “Ex-Gay” Movement Marches On

SOMERVILLE, MA: Despite the Wednesday announcement that the prominent U.S. “ex-gay” organization Exodus International would be closing its doors permanently, a vibrant global network remains committed to the discredited project of converting LGBTQ…

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American 'Ex-Gay' Movement Paves Way for Global Harm

This post was originally published on The Advocate on May 2, 2013. Is the “ex-gay” movement over yet? Certainly not at the global level. Though the movement shows signs of weakening in the United States, international organizations like Exodus…

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"Side B" Christians, Alan Chambers, and the "Ex-Gay" Movement

Following Executive Director Alan Chambers’ announcement that Exodus International would shut down and begin a separate ministry, the “ex-gay” movement has again been pulled into the spotlight.

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Conscience Clause Expansion Would Permit Harassment of LGBTQ Servicemembers

Should military personnel have a license to discriminate? Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) thinks so. As part of the Fiscal Year 2014 Defense Authorization Act, Fleming recently proposed an expansion to an existing “conscience provision.” Rep. Fleming…

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Profiles on the Right: Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins is the president of the Washington D.C.-based Family Research Council (FRC), a Christian lobbying group that describes a LGBTQ lifestyle as “unhealthy” and “destructive” to “individuals, families, and societies.” The FRC, perhaps the…

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How Fetal Personhood Laws Promote Rape Culture

During Wednesday’s hearing on Arizona Representative Trent Franks’s proposed 20-week abortion ban, Franks claimed “the incidence of rape resulting in pregnancy are very low.” Using the same pseudo-scientific reasoning as Todd Akin (who infamously…

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Right-Wing Fabricates "Dangers" of Increased Access to Emergency Contraception

The Justice Department recently decided to comply with a judge’s order to allow minors to purchase emergency contraception without a prescription or age restriction. While reproductive rights and justice groups applaud this progress for women’s…

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Profiles on the Right: Peter LaBarbera

Peter LaBarbera is president of American’s For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), a single-issue group whose only goal is “…exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda.” Over the course of LaBarbera’s career, he has held positions at many…

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Profiles on the Right: Maggie Gallagher

Maggie Gallagher is an anti-LGBTQ pundit and president of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, which advocates a hard-line conservative agenda on marriage, sex, divorce law, and pregnancy. She is also well-known as a co-founder of the…

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What the Denial of Miranda in the Boston Bombings Means for Us All

Muslim communities across the United States have watched with trepidation to see what the fallout from the Boston Marathon bombings will be. Likewise, civil libertarians have anticipated that the Justice Department and the FBI would seek ways to…

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Tracking Christianity’s Transformation: An Interview with James Ault

James Ault is a writer and documentary filmmaker based in Northampton, MA. His first film, Born Again (1987), focused on the life of a fundamentalist Baptist church in Worcester, MA. He later wrote a book about the same church, Spirit and Flesh (…

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Slavery and Holocaust Used to Defend 20-Week “Fetal Pain” Bill

Last week, Rep. Trent Franks (R-Arizona) introduced a bill that would prohibit abortion access nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy – with no exceptions for rape, incest, or health of the mother — based on the scientifically unsound claim that…

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Redefining Religious Liberty

A well-funded network of conservative Roman Catholics and evangelicals is using a “religious liberty” framework to attack same-sex marriage, antidiscrimination laws, access to contraception, and abortion rights—not on moral grounds, but because they…

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International Day Against Homophobia: Have You Seen God Loves Uganda?

The documentary God Loves Uganda, which depicts the role of American conservative evangelicals in generating vicious antigay campaigns in Uganda, has received acclaim at film festivals across the…

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Crisis Pregnancy Centers Target Black Communities

This is an excerpt of an article originally published at Colorlines. Last December, Care Net—the nation’s largest network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers—featured a birth announcement of sorts on the website of its 10-year-old…

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Kansas: Bellwether of the New Shape of GOP Immigration Reform

In January, the local Kansas paper Wichita Eagle anticipated that “at least four bills to crack down on illegal immigrants are expected in Kansas this year.” Given the overwhelming majority of Republican politicians in the Kansas legislature, the…

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Will GOP’s Internal Divisions Create a Path to Real Immigration Reform?

Some Republicans are backing away from their hard-line stance on immigration reform, while the GOP’s most conservative members still oppose anything resembling “amnesty” for undocumented workers. These tensions are especially evident in Kansas,…

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Reproductive Justice Activist Resource Kit Launches at CLPP Conference

On April 12th, Political Research Associates (PRA) debuted its 2013 Defending Reproductive Justice activist resource kit at the annual Civil Liberties and Public Policy (CLPP) conference.

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