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‘League of the South’ calls for volunteers to defend ‘Christian civilization’
The white nationalist group is calling on followers to “stand ready to protect our own families and friends, our property, and our liberty from leftist chaos.”
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Pat Robertson: Marriage equality unleashed ‘a tide of evil’
He believes the Supreme Court has “turned our moral values on their ear.”
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Christian Right issues anti-LGBT manuals teaching legal discrimination
Christian Right leaders may be assuming they’ll lose their battle against equality for LGBTQ people, and they are hunkering down for what they foresee as a long siege against conservative Christian churches, businesses, and organizations.
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The Duggar family and the Christian Right’s persecution complex
The ability of Religious Right activists and their allies in the conservative media to paint themselves as the targets of horrible persecution, a core strategy of the conservative movement for decades, is truly astounding.
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The Christian Right’s claims of persecution by the secular state ring hollow
As a society we have long wrestled with religious objections to a wide range of public interests, from African American civil rights, to mandatory vaccinations, and even public schooling…
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Satanists seize Christian Right’s redefined religious freedom bills and run
It will be no small irony if Satanists turn out to be heroes of religious freedom in our time.
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Christian Right leaders escalate anti‑LGBT threats
As marriage equality has advanced around the country, and the U.S. Supreme Court is set to rule on the issue in June, threatening language is escalating on the Christian Right.
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Not all the same: Christian Right’s Hobby Lobbyization of RFRAs hits the fan
It is revealing how important it was to conservatives that the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act not be seen as discriminatory – using false claims about the federal and other state level RFRAs as a cover.
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The overlooked Indiana outcomes that could haunt the Christian Right
There is something about recent events in Indiana that may not be immediately obvious. The national outcry in the wake of the signing of the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) by Governor Mike Pence (R) was not only an important moment in the struggle against LGBTQ non-discrimination, but it is a transformational moment in our national conversation about religious liberty.
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Will our prisons overflow with Christians?
Many leaders of the Christian Right, from megachurch pastors like Rick Warren to the top prelates in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, have repeatedly threatened civil disobedience (and worse) over marriage equality. If they follow through on their claims, a summer of “martyrdom” may be at hand if the Supreme Court rules in favor of same-sex marriage this term.