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  • Greasing the Line

    Multiple Court Rulings Advance Government Sectarian Prayer

    The combined case of Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius and Conestoga Wood v. Sebelius may be one of the most important religious liberty cases in American history. But the recently decided—but less well known—case Town of Greece, NY v. Galloway should not…

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  • WATCH: Rev. Dr. Kaoma Discusses American Culture Warriors in Africa on The David Pakman Show

    PRA’s senior religious and sexuality researcher, Rev. Dr. Kapya Kaoma, joined David Pakman this week to discuss the origins of American culture warrior’s involvement in the persecution of sexual minorities and women in Africa.

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  • Constructing Campus Conflict

    Antisemitism and Islamophobia on U.S. College Campuses, 2007-2011

    Antisemitism and Islamophobia on college campuses are manifested in a complex set of interactions among a number of different players. This report seeks to explore issues and incidents in a way that will ameliorate aggression, intimidation, and…

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  • Corporate Religious Freedom

    The 3 Possible Outcomes in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby

    In March, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., which was combined with Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius. No matter how the cases are decided, they may well be two of the most pivotal Supreme Court…

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  • From Phoenix to Geneva, Criminalizing Queer is More Than Just a Gay Thing

    While anti-sodomy laws are very clearly designed for the purpose of criminalizing homosexuality, countless other legal restrictions result in significant ramifications for LGBTQ people, particularly transgender, gender-nonconforming, and intersex…

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  • HISTORIC: African Commission Acknowledges Need to Protect LGBTI People

    The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) has taken a major step toward protecting the rights of LGBTI people by adopting a resolution condemning violence against individuals based on their “real or imputed sexual orientation and…

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  • Campus Profile - Alison Weir: If Americans Knew

    Few political writers today appear in the publications of both the Left and the Far Right. One rare exception is Alison Weir, the founder of If Americans Knew (IAK).

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  • If Money Talks, the Anti-Abortion Side is Shouting

    While “Gosnell” didn’t break the Veronica Mars record, the campaign did surpass its stated goal before ending yesterday at $2,241,043.

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  • Homosexuality is Not Un-African

    It is legalized homophobia, not same-sex relations, that is alien to Africa

    It is ironic that an African dictator wearing a three-piece suit, caressing an iPhone, speaking in English and liberally quoting the Bible can dare indict anything for being un-African.

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  • RELEASE: New book exposes U.S. right-wing attacks on African women & sexual minorities

    American Culture Warriors in Africa: A Guide to the Exporters of Homophobia and Sexism is the groundbreaking new book designed to educate U.S. audiences and motivate all people of conscience to take action that interrupts the persecution of women…

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  • LGBTQ Rights - African Politicians' Biggest Scapegoat

    The ultimate irony of this sad tale is that it is not LGBTQ people who are foreign to Africa, but rather the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that is being used against them.

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  • Minimum Wage and Attacks on Worker Organizations

    Known among restaurant workers as “the other NRA” for its political clout in Washington, the National Restaurant Association is among the leading forces opposing efforts to raise the minimum wage currently underway around the country.

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  • Southern Baptist Leader Takes Religious Liberty Arguments to the Absurd

    Like other Christian Right leaders, Moore continues to rely on historical revisionism, bogus science, dubious claims of religious persecution, and hints darkly of tyrannical governmental violence to come. But his arguments in favor of discrimination…

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  • Beyond Lively & Warren

    U.S. Conservative Legal Groups Changing African Law to Persecute Sexual Minorities & Women

    While the exposure of the direct involvement of U.S. conservative culture warriors like Scott Lively, Lou Engle, and Rick Warren in draconian anti-gay laws in Russia, Uganda and Nigeria has put many in the Religious Right on the defensive, there are…

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  • Maryland Neo-Confederate Candidates Back Plan to Defy Judge’s “No Sectarian Prayer” Order

    The theocrats in both counties and their mentor, Judge Roy Moore, help illuminate a certain approach to contemporary debates about religious freedom.

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  • Frazier Glenn Miller & The Ongoing Trend of Former-Military Neo-Nazi Murders

    Military Veterans and the White Separatist Underground’s Cult of Violence

    All three perpetrators fit a very specific pattern: military veterans; involved in White nationalist politics for years; felt (apparently) their lives were at an end; decided to go out and murder unsuspecting civilians at the very public…

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  • Saddleback's Approach to Mental Health Issues Misses the Mark For LGBTQ People

    What Warren considers to be “professional approaches to mental health and healing” includes certain approaches that perpetuate hurt and harm rather than work to combat it, and that rely on homophobic “science” and a conservative Christian …

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  • Sex, Love, and Aid

    The drama of love, sex, and the complicated nature of international aid and involvement is playing out not only on the cross-continental political stage but also in two recent film and theatre productions. In fact, God Loves Uganda (2013) and…

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  • Profile on the Right: Americans United For Life

    For almost 50 years, Americans United for Life (AUL) has chipped away at women’s reproductive rights—both within the U.S. and abroad. AUL’s president, Charmaine Yoest, has described the organization as the “legal architect of the pro-life movement…

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  • A Baptist Sexuality Summit for the Ethically Challenged

    When Russell Moore ascended to the presidency of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), he claimed that he wanted to pull the public policy arm of the SBC back from the culture warring ways of…

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