Janet Jackson, ISIS And The Amish: Religious Right Group Fears First...
When Jerry Johnson, president of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB), told the Values Voter Summit on Friday that the U.S. is witnessing the rise of “self-imposed Sharia law” due to the gay...
View ArticleKoch Group Jumps Into Montana Supreme Court Race
The American Constitution Society has just released a big report on the effects of post-Citizens United spending on judicial elections, specifically finding that judges who survive expensive, ad-heavy...
View ArticleThe 2014 Equine Posterior Award: Vote For Your Favorite Right-Wing Extremist
It’s time to cast your vote for the winner of People For the American Way’s annual Equine Posterior Achievement Award, which recognizes the worst of the worst in right-wing extremism.Our 2014 nominees...
View ArticleGun Range Owner Who Turned Away Brown-Skinned Family Has Close Ties To...
Last year, when Arkansas gun range owner Jan Morgan announced that she would ban Muslims from patronizing her business, we noted that Morgan is a frequent speaker at conservative events— she had a...
View ArticleParanoia-Rama: Obama's Secret 'Deal' With Terrorists, Beware The...
RWW’s Paranoia-Rama takes a look at five of the week’s most absurd conspiracy theories from the Right.Sharia law is taking over the western world, or at least it is in the fevered imaginations of...
View ArticleTodd Starnes Lies Again About Obama's Work To Free Imprisoned Pastor
Fox News pundit Todd Starnes was riled up during President Obama’s State of the Union, taking to Twitter to call the address “verbal water boarding” and joke that Obama will probably offer “free...
View ArticleJindal, Huckabee And Santorum To Join Far-Right Activists At Liberty...
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, after teaming up with Christian nationalist extremists to host his “The Response” prayer rally in Baton Rouge earlier this year, is now continuing his project of endearing...
View ArticleA Spiritual Battle For America's Future: Five Takeaways From The Religious...
On Saturday, roughly 2,000 activists gathered at Faith Assembly, a megachurch in Orlando, for the Awakening, an annual “Prayer and Patriotism event” organized by the Christian Right legal group Liberty...
View ArticleRevolution! Anti-Gay Activists Threaten Uprising If Supreme Court Approves...
Speaking from the pulpit of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in May 2004, Focus on the Family founder James Dobson called for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban same-sex...
View ArticleThe Five Wildest Ben Carson Quotes: Prison Sex, Nazi America, Health Care...
Neurosurgeon-turned-conservative-activist Ben Carson announced his intention to run for president today, which gives us the opportunity to look back at some of the most outrageous statements he has...
View ArticleTony Perkins Equates ISIS Anti-Christian Violence With 'Persecuted Church In...
Last year, when the Family Research Council invited the newly freed Sudanese Christian religious prisoner Meriam Ibrahim to speak at its Values Voter Summit, Peter noted that while Ibrahim would have...
View ArticleThe Religious Right's Council Of Conservative Citizens Connection
After the manifesto of the man who committed a mass murder at a black church in Charleston last week was found to contain material lifted from the white supremacist group Council of Conservative...
View ArticleRight Wing Bonus Tracks - 9/10/15
Ted Cruz spoke at David Barton's "Pastors' Briefing" last night on Capitol Hill. Even Joe Arpaio thinks Donald Trump has gone too far with his anti-immigration rhetoric, which is quite an...
View ArticleIs Jeb Bush Out Of Values Voter Summit?
Every year, Republican leaders flock to the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, which gives them a chance to curry favor with Religious Right activists and gives FRC President Tony Perkins a...
View ArticleReligious Right Martyr Kim Davis To Receive Award For Fighting 'Legal Tyranny'
As many predicted, Kim Davis is cashing in on her new role as a right-wing celebrity. The Family Research Council announced today that Davis will receive its “Cost of Discipleship Award” at the...
View ArticleLike His Wife, Joe Davis Has Now Become A Religious Right Celebrity
Yesterday, the Family Research Council announced that Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who became a Religious Right hero for prohibiting her office from issuing marriage licenses to gay couples,...
View ArticleDonald Trump Heading To Extremist Religious Right Summit
It appears that Donald Trump is stepping up his outreach to the Religious Right, as the Family Research Council today confirmed that the Republican frontrunner will be attending its annual conference,...
View ArticleSantorum: America Is 'Never Going To Be Blessed By God' So Long As Abortion...
Rick Santorum kicked off his remarks at the Values Voter Summit today by declaring that the United States will never be a great nation or receive God's blessing so long as gay marriage and the right to...
View ArticleWhen Donald Trump 'Waged War' On Christmas
Donald Trump offered up his typical word salad to the Values Voter Summit today, but this time while hoisting his Bible in the air and claiming that it is “the reason” that he is leading among...
View ArticleDonald Trump Promises That He Is A Nice Person: 'I Believe In God. I Believe...
In a rather transparent attempt to appeal to the Christian conservatives who make up the audience at the Values Voter Summit, Donald Trump brought a Bible with him to the podium when he spoke today,...
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