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Cole Parke

Cole Parke studied theology at Texas Lutheran University, earned their Master’s in Conflict Transformation at Eastern Mennonite University’s Center for Justice & Peacebuilding, and has been working at the intersections of faith, gender, and sexuality as an activist, organizer, and scholar for more than a decade. Their research and writing examines the infrastructure, mechanisms, strategies, and effects of the Often used interchangeably with Christian Right, but also can describe broader conservative religious coalitions that are not limited to Christians. Can include right-wing Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Mormons, and members of the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon. Learn more on An umbrella acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. Learn more people and reproductive rights, both domestically and internationally, always with an eye toward collective liberation.

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Political Research Associates
The WCF is hosting a gathering of right-wing scholars and activists later this year, including two who have made it their business to provide academic sanction to destructively erroneous claims about LGBTQ people: Mark Regnerus and Brad Wilcox.
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Political Research Associates
Jonathan O’Toole—an American anti-choice activist based in Nakuru, Kenya—makes no secret of his opinions about President Obama. “I hate Obama, I hate his guts,” he told me in a recent interview. “I’m against him. I’m his enemy.”
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Political Research Associates
Who Needs SCOTUS When You Can Control Everything Else?
NAR is a network that seeks to “remake… Christianity in a theocratic mold.” Four years ago, Religious Right leaders were reluctant to openly affiliate themselves with NAR, but it seems that its dominionist agenda is no longer seen to be shameful.
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