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Tea Party, Circa 1930s: A Response to Michael Kazin

By Diane Winston

…alifornia, the Ozarks, the Midwest, and the South came together in the New Right/Christian Right impetus spurred by East Coast power brokers like Howard Phillips, Richard Viguerie, and Paul Weyrich. But the important thing to remember is that DC strategists would not have had a base without the decades-long history of movement building that had gone on in churches nationwide. Even as the 1970s news media were “discovering” the religious right in L…

Right-Wing Parody of Coming Out Reveals True Parody

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…joy the right to keep a job and a house despite that classification, seeks to do nothing of the sort. Instead, gay and lesbian people seek to enter into holy covenant with one another. Are there gay adulterers? Sure, but statistically speaking, they’ll always be vastly outnumbered by straight ones—and thankfully, there seems to be no advocacy groups popping up for them. It’s at once amusing and embarrassing to see the religious right overreaching…

Hatfield, Early Republican Critic of Religious Right,
Dead at 89

By Sarah Posner

…ld was prescient several decades earlier about the impact of the religious right. In the foreward to John Redekop’s The American Far Right: A Case Study of Billy James Hargis and the Christian Crusade, written in 1967, Hatfield blasted the anti-communist Christian crusaders of that decade: Far right crusaders would deny that a man is Christian if he does not share their political beliefs. Their “either/or” philosphy extends into the realm of relig…

GOP v. GOP on LGBT

By Peter Montgomery

…ld Support Gay Rights, which Lampo calls a “fact-based primer” for “center-right” voters. Lampo argues that gay rights are compatible with GOP principles such as individual liberty, limited government, and equality under law—and he cites a raft of polling data indicating that rank-and-file Republicans are more supportive of gay rights, including marriage and other forms of relationship recognition, than many party leaders are. It’s time, he says,…

The Rise of the Catholic Cyber-Bullies

By Patricia Miller

…im “pansified” when he complained to Twitter about hate speech used by the right-wing site Catholic Vote. They got the right-wing echo chamber so ginned up that three talks by Martin were cancelled, most recently and most prominently by the Theological College at Catholic University, where Martin wasn’t even talking about the “gay book” but receptionists were treated to people calling in screaming. Such witch hunts against even a crack of progress…

The “Libertarian Moment” Wouldn’t Exist Without Religion

By Sarah Posner

…f the Tea Party agenda to the fore of the Republican Party. But Kilgore is right that the Christian right — a movement very much at home in the Tea Party movement, and one which would take up a good deal of space in a Venn diagram of the coalition — made that libertarian-ish conservatism an ideology that could find a comfortable and uncontroversial place in a political party whose electoral fortunes hinge on holding together a coalition of religio…

Anonymous Utah Group Distributes Vigilante “Illegal Immigrant” Watchlist

By Joanna Brooks

…Christ of Latter-day Saints, it’s pretty safe to assume that a significant number of “Concerned Citizens of the United States” are Mormon. But so too are a significant number of undocumented immigrants living in the American West. As we’ve reported here at RD, the Church’s strongest growth over the last decade has been among Latino populations, and almost 4.5 million Mormons worldwide are Spanish-speaking. Economic downtimes and anti-immigrant out…

Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church: When Adults are Victims

By Kathryn Joyce

…priests and nuns carried out most of Church ministry. Since then, as their numbers declined, lay men and women in great numbers have committed themselves to work alongside priests and nuns. This partnership is essential for the Church’s mission to thrive. The Jesuit School of Theology is preparing ministerial leaders—Jesuit, religious, and lay—to work together as partners for tomorrow’s Church.” No Hierarchy of Abuse There’s a critical disconnect…

I Met God, She’s Black: An Exhibit Makes the Black Female Body a Temple

By Anita Little

…the reception found a place for themselves where they were appreciated. A number of the women who showed up were from the black church and a number were deans or presidents of colleges, so it was this really wide range of experiences in this space. I think this is a very historic moment. Where else would you get to see more than 100 pieces of artwork from black women? You don’t. If you went to the de Young museum or to MoMA, you would see one or…

Gay Men Detained and Killed in Chechnya, and More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ged that efforts by pro-equality nations have “undermined the entire human rights concept and led to increased distrust of human rights language from many UN member states.” Russia: Wave of arrests and killings of gay men reported in Chechnya More than 100 gay men have reportedly been detained, and many feared killed, in a wave of extra-judicial violence by officials in the region of Chechnya. The disappearances, confirmed by Novaya Gazeta, a Russ…