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New Twist on the War on Christmas: Maybe They’re Right

By Julie Ingersoll

…or the Stewardship of Creation, whose board of advisors included Christian right activists and leaders such as David Barton and the late D. James Kennedy, the series blends criticism of global environmental efforts and concern over global warming with an affinity for conspiracy theories. Most of the media focused on the ominous tone and the seemingly over-the-top claims presented in the series, to the point of wondering if it was parody. (Right Wi…

Fed. Court Rules Prop. 8 Unconstitutional

By Peter Montgomery

…r purpose.” Walker’s ruling specifically considered and rejected Religious Right claims that Prop. 8 accommodates “the First Amendment rights of individuals and institutions that oppose same-sex marriage on religious or moral grounds.” He wrote, “Proposition 8 does not affect the First Amendment rights of those opposed to marriage for same-sex couples. Prior to Proposition 8, no religious group was required to recognize marriage for same-sex coupl…

You’re Right, Ross Douthat: Donald Trump Is Kind of Like Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…come of much of the noxious, racist, crass discourse that dominates on the right, and especially the alt-right, about which no better description can be offered than “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” The utter disregard for facts, evidence, difference, the wallowing in xenophobia, the encouragement of violence and aggression, the deep resentment, the feeling that everyone wrongs us and we’ve never wronged anyone—anyone who spe…

The Elite Movement Laying the Foundation for a MAGA That Will Outlast Trump and Remake America: Inside NatCon Part I

By Ben Lorber

…e thought leaders, opinion shapers, policy makers and foot soldiers of the rightward flank of the MAGA ecosystem. Intellectuals from right-wing journals like First Things and The American Conservative rub shoulders with journalists from outlets like American Greatness and The Epoch Times; policy analysts from think tanks like the Claremont Institute and the Heritage Foundation; and representatives from organizing outfits like American Moment and Y…

Park51 And The Roots of Islamophobia

By Sarah Posner

…al Himself to them through his son Jesus Christ,” the email read, hoping to “see the Kingdom of God (Jehovah) advance in the world of Islam.” The president and Senate majority leader have been convinced that the center has a “right to build” but not right there at Ground Zero. But in the internal logic of the religious right, if America is a “Christian nation,” that thinking could easily be extended to other purported hallowed ground — everywhere….

“Pro-Life” Has Officially Lost its Meaning

By Patricia Miller

…f the anti-abortion movement, when a Los Angeles bishop coined the phrase “right to life” for one of the country’s first anti-abortion organizations, the Right-to-Life League of Southern California. The Catholic bishops’ conference created the National Right to Life Committee the following year, in 1968, to coordinate the anti-abortion activities of state-level right-to-life committees. The New York Times first used the term “pro-life” in a 1972 a…

Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

By Susannah Crockford

…ctor, a paid agitator, or an Antifa thug in disguise. Since so many on the right engage in climate denial, his presence at a climate protest with a sign affirming the existence of global warming may seem contradictory. However, in his Arizona Republic interview, Angeli connects environmental problems such as pollution with fears about the negative health effects of electromagnetic frequencies and 5G. Within new age spirituality, greenhouse gases,…

United Nations Affirms the Human Right to Blaspheme

By Austin Dacey

…monitor compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, or ICCPR, the 1966 human rights treaty that provides for freedom of opinion and expression and other fundamental rights. The Committee’s general comments represent authoritative interpretations of the provisions of the ICCPR. Unlike the highly-publicized resolutions produced by the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly, the provisions of the ICCPR are legall…

David Brat, Theological Conundrum

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker and Bridget O'Brien

…the century that you can name. Who do we got right now? [Audience: Jay-Z] Right. Right. [Audience: Beyoncé] Right. Beyoncé. When you can’t name a serious philosopher, a national name, or a serious theologian, or a serious religious leader, at the national level, your culture’s got a major problem. We got a major problem. None of these pieces of evidence—whether taken alone or as a group—are enough to give a coherent picture of Brat’s theology, le…

Breivik’s Demographic Warfare and the American Right’s Demographic Winter

By Sarah Posner

…office as president and prime minister—the country has shifted far to the right, embracing a social conservatism that aggressively targets gays, Jews, women’s rights and foreigners, and that in 2006 went so far as to propose that Jesus be named honorary king of Poland. To Carlson, this proves Poland is “an island of profamily values” amid the tides of “Christo-phobic” “population-control types” who dominate the rest of the continent. Poland, he s…