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Is Change Possible? Shifting the Ex-Gay Question

By Lynne Gerber

…Christian right found a salient post-Communism political target in the gay rights movement. In a time of increased opposition to gay rights by conservative Christian organizations and increased resistance to their anti-gay campaigning, Exodus ministries and their members became attractive partners to Christian right institutions. Supporting people “struggling with same sex attraction” became useful cultural evidence that these seeming haters had a…

Where Were They Radicalized? No Answer is Complete Without Addressing Evangelical Churches and Schooling

By Chrissy Stroop

…ng into account the feedback loops between it; overt white supremacist and right-wing extremist groups; elite right-wing lobbies like the Council for National Policy; digital technology; and the rise of talk radio and right-wing cable “news.” https://twitter.com/C_Stroop/status/1350557148225277952?s=20 From the very start, Christian schooling and homeschooling advocates have had powerful influence in the Trump administration, not least through the…

The Right’s Satanic-Grammy-Panic Isn’t About the Devil or Pfizer or Even Scantily-Clad Women — It’s All About the Transphobia

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…r or my non-existent grandkids or scantily clad women (which no one on the Right really seems too upset about for some reason). It’s about the inability to express transphobia as viciously and irrationally as someone like Shapiro will do. The discomfort on the Right or among QAnons that makes them babble like Babel’s Tower was just erected comes from the fact that their replacement for the 80s and 90s Satanic Panic is transphobia (and CRT but we’l…

Despite Reports, GOP Has Not ‘Turned on Trump’ For Call to Terminate the Constitution — Fascism isn’t a Dealbreaker for Today’s GOP

By Annika Brockschmidt

…arty. Mike Pence might be the most disliked man in the country both on the Right and the Left, no matter how often Fox News tries to make him seem beloved by everyone. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger won’t be in the next Congress because their conservatism isn’t right-wing enough for the GOP anymore, and John Bolton, apart from having no position of influence in the party, is currently on his post-Trump-administration rehabilitation tour and is nons…

Deifying Pope Francis Obscures Where He’s So So Right, So So Wrong

By Daniel C. Maguire

…kering like spoiled kids in a schoolyard. But the same Francis who’s so so right is also so so wrong. He’s still hobbled by Catholic natalism and sexism. He doesn’t seem to know that there’s not a single topic he discusses in his encyclical that isn’t impacted by overpopultation. He says, ridiculously, that “demographic growth is fully compatible with an integral and shared development.” Every four and a half days a million people are added to our…

Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa

By Kapya Kaoma

…rruption and economic inequality. Since 2008, I’ve researched how American right-wing evangelical groups have unceasingly attacked and undermined LGBTQI rights and reproductive justice in the name of Christianity. I’ve personally witnessed and filmed American conservative Evangelicals in Kampala, Uganda teach religious and political leaders the myth that Western gays are “recruiting children into homosexuality” on the continent. By recasting LGBTQ…

Values Voters Summit: Preaching Wins the Morning

By Sarah Posner

…deo-Christian values.” It’s why the Manhattan Declaration is the religious right’s core document right now — and why they’d like tea partiers to get on board with it. Huckabee elaborated: “the bigger problem with the Democrats,” he said, “is not that they don’t share our values but that they don’t share our story” — in other words, not just their version of American history, and the intentions of the founders, but their story of what government is…

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Toward a More Positive Conspiracy — New Book Suggests that Critical Theorists and QAnon Followers Have More in Common Than You Think

By Annie Wilkinson

…king to truths in the world. Masco: One thread linking many authoritarians right now is their dedicated efforts to control and confuse efforts to seek collective truths that people can activate their political lives around. Lisa has written extensively about this. It’s critical for being able to see the actual conspiratorial practices employed by any given state. In the US, for instance, we’ve had a multi-decade project by polluting industries and…

Blankets, Booties, and Jesus: Spiritual War on the Uterus in Rick Perry’s Texas

By Sarah Posner

…e matters, Perry’s record as governor speaks for itself. Director of Texas Right to Life Elizabeth Graham told the conservative tabloid Newsmax of Perry, a “staunch advocate”: “we have access to both him and his staff and he has been very hands-on.” A 2011 bill (designated as “emergency” legislation by Perry in order to fast-track it through the legislature) amended the “right-to-know” law by requiring doctors to perform a sonogram on women seekin…

Right Makes Might: The President as Political Realist

By John D. Carlson

…played Afghans’ liberation from the Taliban and the US commitment to human rights. In Oslo, however, Obama full-throatily discussed the moral valence of war, the pursuit of peace through force, and the noble causes American wars have defended. He forcefully affirmed that some evils—Nazism, al-Qaeda—require coercive force to confront. Speaking especially to Europeans, Obama left no room for presidential pacifism. (The German Marshall Fund reported…