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Dragged Through the Mud: This Little Church-Backed Support Group for LGBTQ Teens Suffered Bomb Threats, Smears and the Cancellation of its Drag Show

By Chrissy Stroop

…first, against censorship of educational material by a well-organized, far-right minority, and now also on behalf of the rights and dignity of LGBTQ students. The ongoing anti-LGBTQ moral panic in the area started with an attack by local megachurches and The American Council on an innocuous youth drag show fundraiser for the Landing Spot, an LGBTQ youth support group highly valued by many area parents and teens. Eventually, the group’s leader, Pas…

Religious and Political Silence on India’s LGBTQ Decision Speaks Volumes

By Andrea R. Jain

…ourt inappropriately intended to change moral norms, he suggested that the right to privacy should not include the right to deviant sexual behavior and that yoga could cure the disease of homosexuality. He described homosexuals as anti-social and said legalization would negatively affect India’s youth, damage the institution of marriage, and increase the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. Ramdev used his celebrity and moral authority to make a compelling thr…

Taking the Right-Wing Echo Chamber to the Halls of Congress

By Lauri Lebo

…is a more interesting choice. He’s one of those guys who can be absolutely right or batshit crazy depending on the issue being discussed. When it comes to civil liberties, he’s actually pretty strong. He’s an outspoken critic of asset forfeiture laws, prosecutorial immunity, abuse of eminent domain and is in the right on many other issues. But he’s also one of those folks who rants about the evils of the 17th amendment, which is definitely crank t…

Fresh From Horrors of Draconian Anti-Abortion Laws, Christian Right Hoosiers Consider Draconian Anti-Abortion Law

By Chrissy Stroop

…ut I care about the people they do affect. I also know that my queer civil rights are unlikely to survive the current Christian Right onslaught in states like Indiana. At the end of the day, elite Republican embarrassment at the extent of the unmasked rank-and-file Republicans’ bloodlust toward marginalized people will never provide me with enough of a sense of security to make settling down “back home again in Indiana” palatable—and I know I’m fa…

#NeverTrump Evangelicals Must Face the Music

By Neil J. Young

…ures, passed anti-gay legislation, and pushed the Republican Party further right. And it is this wide coalition that made the Religious Right the most formidable force within the GOP and the powerbrokers of modern conservatism. The #NeverTrump crowd has benefitted from all that. Now, faced with the rise of Donald Trump, they ought to also acknowledge that Trump too is reaping the benefits of a culture and movement they helped create, even if it no…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…Islamic State if elected. In France, Marine le Pen, the leader of the far right National Front, blamed Islamic fundamentalism for the violence. In Britain, the conservative commentator Kelvin MacKenzie attacked Channel 4 news for having a reporter wearing a hijab deliver the news. The Islamophobic right was not the only group insisting that Lahouaiej Bouhlel’s actions must have been motivated by Islamic terrorist sympathies. On Saturday, their ch…

Are the Southern Baptists, America’s Largest Evangelical Denomination, About to Get Even More Conservative?

By Chrissy Stroop

…jectory that began decades ago, be the target of a purge of the SBC’s very right wing carried out by its ultra-right wing? RD turned to Ammerman for insights into parallels between the 1980s and the present and where the SBC may be headed from here. Tensions are clearly brewing again. Hardliner William Harrell, a retired SBC leader who oversaw the denomination’s break with the Baptist Joint Committee, has publicly accused Moore and the ERLC of cea…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…so many of his Republican opponents insist and demand. What gives? Obama’s right on this one President Obama’s right not to call ISIS—or, as he prefers, ISIL—“Islamic.” This drives many right-wing commentators nearly nuts, as they think Obama’s conceding to some kind of political correctness and too afraid and effete to admit the truth: That we’re at war with Islam. Which, of course, we’re not. Even George W. Bush made that same point. Moreover, P…

What’s Missing From Popular Discussions of Today’s Christian Nationalism?

By Katherine Stewart

…ken in defense of the January 6th people to me is dead. They’re dead.” The right-wing political commentator and activist Dinesh D’Souza, also in conversation with Ralph Reed, echoed the sentiment. “The people who are getting shafted right now are the January 6 protesters,” he said. “We won’t defend our guys even when they’re good guys.” Reed nodded and replied, “I think Trump taught our movement a lot.” At CPAC, January 6th was even reconceived as…

Religious Right Launches Silly Attacks on Law Firm that Ditched DOMA Defense

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the move as part of the “clash coming between homosexuality and religious rights or other rights or just simply common sense and civility, I think we’re seeing it played out right there in the King & Spalding law firm,” he told the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow. These are the same old canards the religious right pulls out when talking about marriage equality. Clement has every right to work for a law firm that will back him in his dete…