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  • The Christian Right, Reborn

    The New Apostolic Reformation Goes to War
    People standing in a field sporadically in front of the D.C capitol

    The New Apostolic Reformation, an aggressively political movement within Christianity, blames literal demonic beings for the world’s ills and stresses the power of “spiritual warfare” to deliver people and nations from their power. It is rapidly…

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  • Profiles on the Right: The Becket Fund

    Named for the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, the Becket Fund was founded in 1994 by attorney Kevin ‘Seamus’ Hasson. Originally nonpartisan and an advocate on behalf of many religious interests, the Becket Fund has become more conservative under…

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  • Redefining Religious Liberty

    The Covert Campaign against Civil Rights

    Executive Summary A highly active, well-funded network of conservative Roman Catholic intellectuals and evangelicals are waging a vigorous challenge to LGBTQ and reproductive rights by charging that both threaten their right-wing definition of…

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  • Making Anti-Gay Christian Right Views Law, at Home and Abroad

    Did you know that the same Christian-right legal organization responsible for drafting the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bans federal recognition of same-sex marriage in the U.S., also supports the constitutional criminalization of…

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  • New PRA Report Exposes Right's "Religious Liberty" Campaign

    Consider the following situation: Because of her religious beliefs against same-sex marriage, a New Mexico photographer refuses to shoot a lesbian couple’s wedding. The photographer claims taking the pictures would infringe on her religious liberty…

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  • As New Pope Inaugurated, New Report Exposes Catholic Church's and Right's "Religious Liberty" Campaign

    As a new pope with hardline stances against reproductive and LGBTQ rights is inaugurated, a new report documents how a network of conservative Christian organizations, beginning with a group of ultra-conservative Catholic organizations, has…

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  • Right-Wing Group Places Islamophobic Ad in College Newspapers

    Across college campuses last week, students were faced with a full-page ad promoting “Islamic Apartheid Week”. Funded and placed by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, it appeared during the annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” organized by pro-…

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  • Help Distribute Our 2013 "Defending Reproductive Justice" Activist Resource Kit

    Political Research Associates launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign today to produce and distribute the 2013 “Defending Reproductive Justice” ARK to women’s rights groups and educators across the country.

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  • New Study Shows African-Americans Reject Right-Wing Position on Choice

    In the face of African-American voters’ overwhelming support for President Obama in the 2012 election, some right-wing pundits dismissed this as simply racial allegiance rather than an embrace of liberal positions. A recently released poll…

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  • Profile: American Family Association

    The purported goals of the American Family Association (AFA) are to protect “traditional moral values” and to combat “the radical homosexual agenda,” with considerable emphasis on the latter in recent years. It was formed in 1977 by evangelical…

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  • Social Conservatives Block Republican Gay Groups From CPAC

    The two most prominent LGBTQ organizations in the conservative movement, GOProud and the Log Cabin Republicans, are getting the cold shoulder from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

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  • Watch: The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics

    Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church used to lean prochoice? This was (shocking) news to most of the attendees of Friday’s screening of The Secret History of Sex, Choice and Catholics–even those who were themselves Roman Catholic.

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  • The “Ex-Gay” Movement in Latin America

    Therapy and Ministry in the Exodus Network

    When the Executive Director of Exodus International, Alan Chambers, dramatically announced in January 2012 that he no longer believed there was a “cure” to homosexuality, he allegedly ended his organization’s 35-year-long effort to “convert … LGBTQ…

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  • In New Jersey, Reckoning for the Ex-Gay Movement

    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.

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  • NOM-Rhode Island's Marriage "Big Lie"

    As lawmakers in Rhode Island move toward passing marriage equality, National Organization for Marriage-Rhode Island (NOM-RI) responded with a series of very familiar newspaper ads and personal mailings warning voters of the “consequences” of…

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  • "Bipartisan" Evangelical Rev. Rodriguez Conservative Even on Immigration

    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…

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  • Mass. Policy to Protect Transgender Students Under Attack by Christian Right

    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…

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  • Profile: Joseph Nicolosi, Ex-Gay Therapist

    Joseph Nicolosi is the founder and director of the Thomas Aquinas Psychological Clinic in Encino, CA. The clinic specializes in Nicolosi’s pseudo-scientific and discredited “reparative theory,” a theory that treats homosexuality as a psychological…

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  • Maryland Middle Schoolers Encouraged to Seek Ex-Gay Therapy

    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.

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  • The Right's New Same-Sex Marriage Messaging: Why They Lost in 2012

    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 &…

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