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Another New Christian Right Legal Group

As if we needed another one, two of our old pals here at Dispatches, Matt Barber and Gordon Klingenschmitt, have combined to form a sort-of far-right legal super group. They’re calling it the Christia... read more

Some see Christian First bias in Trump foreign policy

As president, Trump has returned the favor, delivering for the Christian right — not just at home ... s not biased against the religious group. Instead, this person said, Pompeo is likely caught up in ... read more

The religious right lost the fight over gay marriage in the U.S., but it sees hope in Eastern Europe

an Arizona-based association that has emerged as an influential legal force for the American religious right — part of a larger pattern of conservative evangelical and other Christian groups finding f... read more

Jeff Sessions consulted Christian right legal group on religious freedom memo

Attorney General Jeff Sessions consulted Alliance Defending Freedom, a legal advocacy group that champions conservative ... itself as a leading litigation and appellate advocacy group for Christian ri... read more

It Wasn’t Abortion That Formed the Religious Right. It Was Support for Segregation.

Photo by Jeff Fusco/Getty Images The modern religious right ... suggests that "the spike in legal abortions" after Roe was the shock to their system that made them realize that women really were going ... read more

Protest puts pressure on New Haven for more affordable housing

Kerry Ellington of the community and economic developmemt unit of the New Haven Legal Assistance Association ... Department work together to keep them in good shape. Another demand of the group was mo... read more

Attorneys talk legal challenges facing transgender people

Sohn said another legal challenge has come from businesses denying services to LGBTQ people by claiming doing so is in conflict with their religious beliefs ... Windy City Media Group does not approve ... read more

Innocent or not, Kavanaugh runs up the cost of evangelicals’ GOP tie

My new framework for understanding the religious right is not my own. It comes from Christine Blasey Ford, the brave soul whose civic duty compelled her to speak out about what actually happened: “Two ... read more

The far right’s racist rampage in Portland

Patriot Prayer boss Joey Gibson says the group isn’t racist, but its members include a number of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including Jeremy Christian — the self-described white ... read more

“Relic of Another Era”: Most People on North Carolina’s Death Row Would Not Be Sentenced to Die Today

If the governor allowed the execution to go forward, the group’s president said, “The right to counsel ... and ordered a new trial. He was exonerated in 2008. Another one of Portwood’s ... read more

Is Trump pacifying yet another dictator? Or is there a method to his madness in handling the Saudi prince?

It doesn’t matter if it was legal ... New documents show that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross likely lied to Congress over the 2020 census citizenship question. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) ... read more

Anti-LGBTQ group freaks out after Amazon blocks it from using donation system to raise money

Those efforts include: And none of those actions are even among the top reasons the SPLC designates ADF a hate group: Founded by some 30 leaders of the Christian Right, the Alliance Defending Freedom ... read more