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Christian Right leaders know that their long-term program to marginalize the values of religious equality and pluralism is threatened by the entry of the organized Baptist community in an historic struggle to reclaim the meaning of religious freedom.

While New York needs all the help it can get, New Yorkers should be aware that Samaritan’s Purse’s work in the city is both humanitarian and missionary, and that the organization carries a checkered history of Islamophobia and homophobia.

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 continent.

The Internet, with its easy anonymity and wanton disregard of the rules of evidence and factuality, by the early 2000s had already become host to a swamp of conspiracy theories, false smears, and wild speculation.

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 who, as PRA broke in 2009, traveled to Uganda to promote the virulent homophobia that lead to the “kill the gays” bill.

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.

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing a florist for refusing service to a gay couple, as the florist says, “because of [her] relationship with Jesus Christ.” Coverage of the story by local media and national news outlets has focused on the legal action in light of the recent passage of Washington’s same-sex marriage law.

Boston, MA, April 2, 2013: Exodus International, the U.S. network of Christian ministries prominent in the “ex-gay” movement, dramatically changed its position in January 2012 when Executive Director Alan Chambers announced that he no longer believed there was a “cure” to homosexuality. This allegedly put an end to the organization’s 35-year effort to “convert…LGBTQ people to heterosexuality through ‘submission to Jesus Christ.’” However, a new report by the social justice think tank Political Research Associates, The “Ex-Gay” Movement in Latin America: Therapy and Ministry in the Exodus Network, finds that the global network remains divided in its stance on harmful “conversion therapy” for LGBTQ individuals, particularly in Latin America.

In the November 2012 elections, voters in the four states where marriage equality was on the ballot all voted either to legalize marriage equality or overturn bans on same-sex marriage. For the first time in American history, a majority of Americans have indicated that they support same-sex marriage, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Prop. 8 further suggest that the opposition to marriage equality may be a losing battle. Yet a new article by PRA Senior Fellow Frederick Clarkson asserts that these recent gains have not led the Christian Right to retreat from this issue.

In response to COVID-related school closures across the country, homeschool organizations like the conservative evangelical-affiliated Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) are responding by recruiting parents trapped by fear and circumstance.