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The fight to end ex-gay therapy takes center stage in New Jersey, with both legislative and legal actions targeting the harmful practice that seeks to “cure” homosexual orientation.

Great value is placed on being bipartisan in Washington, D.C., today. Or, at least, appearing bipartisan. That may be part of the secret of the remarkable success of Christian Right leader Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), who manages to appear bipartisan without actually being bipartisan.

Comprehensive guidelines from the Massachusetts Department of Education to protect transgender public school students’ safety and prevent discrimination, including in regards to bathrooms and athletics, are under attack by a local Christian Right group.

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 five part, original Netflix documentary “The Family,” is about a secretive, international religious network that has profoundly influenced governments in the U.S. and around the world for many decades.

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.

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.

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.”

Though there are many politicians on the Right that rely on fear and paranoia to mobilize their base, perhaps none is more consistently provocative than U.S. Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas.

“There is no Roe anniversary for low-income women!” declared Carey Pope, Senior Policy Analyst at Ipas, a global organization dedicated to ending preventable deaths and disabilities from unsafe abortion, in a blog the day prior to Roe‘s 40th anniversary.