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  • Scott Lively Held to Account Back Home for Anti-Gay Persecution in Uganda

    Yesterday, I and about 40 others crammed into the Springfield, MA, office of Arise for Social Justice, fresh from the first oral hearing of the lawsuit brought by Ugandan gay rights activists against Scott Lively–the notorious holocaust revisionist…

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  • Anti-Trans Violence and Intern's Death Spurs D.C. Ad Campaign

    “I love the wharf, listening to jazz at Westminster Church, and playing basketball with other guys. I’m a transgender man and I’m part of DC.” If you’ve bussed around our nation’s capital in the past year, you may have seen this ad (left) displaying…

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  • D.C. Advertises for Transgender Acceptance

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    Iden Campbell McCollum is the founder of The Campbell Center, a peer-run resource center for people living with mental health challenges. The center serves the primarily low-income and African American community in Southeast Washington, D.C.…

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  • The Right’s Marriage Message

    Talking Tolerance, Marketing Inequality

    “Mom, guess what I learned in school today! I learned how a prince married a prince, and I can marry a princess!” Kids say the darndest things, don’t they? Over the past decade, the Right has drummed up fears that marriage equality will…

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  • Thoughts From PRA's Founder

    Looking back, what do you think PRA’s most memorable impact was?

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  • Welcome to Our New Site -- and Blog!

    If you’re a regular visitor to Political Research Associates’ website, you’ll notice we’ve done more than a little sprucing up around here. In fact, we’ve built a completely new site from the bottom up, so that visitors like you can more easily…

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  • Why Marriage Won: Right-Wing Messaging and the 2012 Elections

    Before the November 2012 elections, 37 states had voted on statewide ballot measures seeking to restrict marriage equality in this country. Each time, voters in these states—family members, friends, neighbors, and co-workers of LGBTQ people—approved…

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  • Combating the Mormons

    The first time many people concerned with LGBT rights learned about the Mormon Church’s anti-LGBT activism was in 2008, when it played a major role in winning passage of California’s Proposition 8, the ballot measure repealing same sex marriage in…

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  • PRA Condemns Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill

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    Political Research Associates condemns the criminalization of sexual minorities and calls on American and international religious and political leaders to denounce the reintroduction of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, which reportedly passed…

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  • Major Christian Right Actors Seek to Criminalize Homosexuality in Africa

    On Friday, Andy Kroll at Mother Jones reported that Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow, the father-son team leading the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) — high-profile social conservatives and advisers and supporters of Republican Presidential…

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  • Do We Have to Be "Equal"?

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    The 2012 election promises to be an intensely contested one, but one constituency seems guaranteed to vote for Barack Obama in large numbers: The LGBTQ community, especially given his endorsement of gay marriage.

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  • Will the Christian Right Object to Objectivism?

    Uniting social conservatives and libertarians under one banner is no easy task. But John Aglialoro, a producer of the film “Atlas Shrugged II,” has found the woman for the job: Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged author and literary inspiration for his “Atlas…

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  • The Legal Arm of the Christian Right

    Inside the American Center for Law and Justice
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    After his unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid mobilized Christian Right voters, televangelist Pat Robertson channeled his campaign’s energy into forming two influential right-wing organizations. One was the voter mobilization powerhouse the Christian…

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  • The New Religious Freedom Argument

    Gay Marriage in the 2012 Election
    A rainbow flag with the words: Bigotry disguised as "Religious Liberty" is still Bigotry!

    The political world was abuzz this spring when the National Organization for Marriage’s confidential battle plan to block LGBTQ marriage rights became public in a Maine lawsuit and the Human Rights Campaign posted it for the world to see.

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  • Rev. Samuel Rodriguez: Not So Moderate

    Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, executive director of the Sacramento-based National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) is regularly tapped by national media outlets like CNN and The New York Times as the leading voice of Latino evangelicals and…

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  • Ryan Bomberger: A Radiant New Anti-Choice Leader

    Emerging anti-choice leader Ryan Bomberger took center stage mid-September at the Christian Right’s Values Voter Summit. Prior to walking on stage, Bomberger was introduced as an Emmy award-winning creative media professional, who was adopted by a…

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  • What's a Giant Red Stilleto Doing at the Values Voter Summit?

    In the Values Voter Summit exhibit hall, amongst the expected array of conservative propaganda — the latest evangelical and right-wing books; recruitment booths from conservative universities; and political and advocacy organizations with pamphlets…

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  • State Anti-Marriage Equality Leaders Report from the Front Lines

    Some of the most important leaders in the conservative movement were on a marriage equality panel at the recent Values Voters Summit. But likely few of the conference participants had even heard of the panelists or the Family Policy Council, the…

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  • "Ex-Terrorist" Kamal Saleem Cons the Conservatives

    One of the stock characters in American public life is the political/religious convert who becomes the expert on the evil he once was. Pick your era or locality of evil, and you’ll find ’em. And while there are certainly authentic converts from…

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