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Eastern Europe’s Conservative Crackdown on Reproductive Freedom

Posted by Reproductive health 14 Feb 2012

Source: The Huffington Post. Across Eastern and Central Europe, emboldened right-wing leaders are resurrecting debates around abortion and other reproductive services, even in largely secular nations like Hungary. “There is a very strong pronatalist [anti-choice] current in Central and Eastern Europe and that goes along with nationalist tendencies in many of these countries,” says Johanna Westeson, European regional [...]

How White Supremacists Are Trying to Make an American Town a Model for Right-Wing Extremism

Posted by Christian Right Watch 27 Nov 2011

Source: AlterNet. At first glance the Pioneer Little Europe website seems like it could be the work of the Montana Office of Tourism. Photographs depict the rugged beauty of the Flathead Valley region near Glacier National Park in northwest Montana. One image shows a young blond-haired girl playing in a meadow overlooking Kalispell, the largest town in the area, with a population around 20,000.

Exposing religious fundamentalism in the US

Posted by Christian Right Watch 7 Sep 2011

Source: Al Jazeera. With Representative Michele Bachmann’s victory in the Ames, Iowa straw poll, and Texas Governor Rick Perry’s triumphal entrance into the GOP presidential primary, there’s been a sudden spike of attention drawn to the extremist religious beliefs both candidates have been associated with – up to and including their belief in Christian dominionism.

Michele Bachmann vs. Rick Perry: Who’s the Bigger Right-Wing Extremist?

Posted by Christian Right Watch, News, Top Stories 21 Aug 2011

Source: AlterNet. As the battle for the Republican nomination for president heats up, more attention is being paid to Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota, who is cast as the crazy-eyed right-wing nut, and Gov. Rick Perry from Texas, who gets to play the role of the more reasonable Republican who will likely win the nomination. But, as the progressive press has been doggedly trying to expose, Bachmann and Perry are far more alike in the “crazy right-wing nut” [...]

US: Bachmann’s Unrivaled Extremism

Posted by Christian Right Watch, Features 21 Jun 2011

Source: The Daily Beast. In April 2005, Pamela Arnold wanted to talk to her state senator, Michele Bachmann, who was then running for Congress. A 46-year-old who worked at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Arnold lived with her partner, the famed Arctic explorer Ann Bancroft, on a farm in Scandia, Minnesota. Bachmann was then leading the fight against gay marriage in the state.

The ‘Family’ – Who Really Is Behind This Secret Organization?

Posted by Christian Right Watch, News, Top Stories 31 Dec 2010

Source: Truthout, 30 December 2010. What if someone were to tell you that your Congressman routinely bandies around phrases such as “Jesus plus nothing,”  used to mean the complete rule of Jesus, and compares the desired reach to that of Hitler or Ho Chi Minh? If this makes you at all apprehensive, then Jeff Sharlet’s [...]

What Is The Evangelical “Stay-At-Home Daughters Movement”?

Posted by Christian Right Watch, Editor's Choice, Features 2 Dec 2010

Source: Bitch Magazine. There’s a lot of talk in American mainstream media lately 
about the diminishing role of men—fathers, in particular. Have feminism and reproductive technology made them obsolete? 
Are breadwinning wives and career-oriented mothers emasculating them? No such uncertainty exists in the mind of Doug Phillips, the man quoted above. The San Antonio minister is the founder of Vision Forum [...]

Building a Christian America

Posted by Christian Right Watch 15 Nov 2010

Source: The Huffington Post, 13 November 2010. There have always been Christians who have resisted religious pluralism and diversity and have sought to transform this nation of religious freedom into a nation dominated by Christian conviction and practice. Thanks to the First Amendment, however, they could not achieve that objective by coercion or the force [...]

How Republicans and Their Big Business Allies Duped Tens of Millions of Evangelicals into Voting for a Corporate Agenda

Posted by Christian Right Watch 11 Nov 2010

Source: AlterNet, 10 November 2010. By Frank Schaeffer. Tens of millions of American voters got duped badly in the 2010 election. The bible-thumping white underclass thought they hit back at what they regarded as the nefarious forces trying to “take our country away.” They were bought, paid for, sold, traded and manipulated by the most [...]

Six Reasons Why Americans Should Care About What is Happening in Uganda

Posted by Christian Right Watch, Opinion 15 Oct 2010

Missionaries of Hate: Vanguard Trailer Source: Talk To Action, 14 October 2010. A May 2010 Vanguard documentary, Missionaries of Hate, shows the impact of a conference in Uganda featuring Scott Lively and the “kill the gays” bill proposed in their Parliament, but it took more than one conference to demonize Uganda’s gay population.  For years there [...]

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