The Christian Right is using its anti-homosexuality tactics to push back against laws ensuring rights for the trans community. Find out who the three key groups leading the attack are, and their playbook for repressing LGBTQ rights.
The Public Eye Magazine
The Public Eye, Summer 2016
Issue
87
In our feature story this issue, PRA research analyst Cole Parke finds that the hostility toward A term used for someone whose gender is not (exclusively) the one they were assigned at birth. Learn more people isn’t merely backlash but rather the result of a carefully coordinated A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more campaign. In our commentary, contributor Gillian Kane reports on the latest gathering of the WCF, an international and cross-denominational coalition of “pro-family” activists brought together around shared opposition to sexual and reproductive health and rights. PRA Senior Fellow Frederick Clarkson traces how for more than 40 years, dominionism—the broad term for the concept that God commands Christians to take control of the world’s politics and culture—has been helping to shape the direction and objectives of the Right.
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