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Anti-Trans

Anti-trans advocacy aims to remove government protections and restrict access to necessary programs and services for trans people; demonize and persecute people based on their gender identity; and…
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Anti-Black Racism

In common usage, anti-Blackness refers to the particular ways in which racism—particularly structural racism and White supremacy in the U.S. context—impacts Black people. More specifically, anti…
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New Apostolic Reform­ation

The New Apostolic Reformation or NAR is the leading political and cultural vision of the Pentecostal and Charismatic wing of evangelical Christianity. The NAR is Dominionist, and it seeks to influence…
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Anti-LGBTQ & Anti-Transgender

Opposition to LGBTQ equality has long been both a fundamental value and useful political tool for many U.S. conservative organizations, especially those associated with the Christian Right. Even as…
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Anti-Abortion

The anti-abortion movement as it exists in the early 2020s emerged in the aftermath of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court which found sufficient protection in the…
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Dominionism

The theocratic idea that regardless of theological view or eschatological timetable, Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over society by taking control of political and cultural…
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