religious right

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/6/2020
  

  The Religious Hijacking of the Supreme Court Doesn’t Require Amy Barrett

  Five of the court's current justices are already comfortable with a "free exercise supremacy" approach that casts the rights of the religious to mold society to their faith as superior to the rights of women, gays, and minorities to live with dignity.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2020
  

  How the Religious Right Has Transformed the Supreme Court

  Law professors Lee Epstein and Eric Posner argue that the conservative bloc on the court has shifted from the libertarianism favored by big business to a more aggressive religious activism. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/26/2020
  

  The Evangelical Left once Had a Home in the GOP. What Happened?

  by John W. Compton

  Evangelical Christians in the political arena today support conservative Republicans. It's not just because the Democratic party moved too far left; the leaders of the New Right purged moderate Evangelicals from the ranks in the 1970s and left the religious left without a clear partisan home. 

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• 3/6/2020
  

  A Founder of American Religious Nationalism

  by Katherine Stewart

  Christian nationalism today is a political movement, and its primary goal is power. Its ultimate aim, formulated by R.J. Rushdoony, is to replace our modern constitutional Republic with a “biblical” order that derives its legitimacy not from the people but from God and the Bible – or, at least, the God and the Bible that men like Rushdoony claimed to know.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/8/19
  

  Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right

  by William Trollinger

  Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  2-5-18
  

  Race, not abortion, was the founding issue of the religious right

  Though opposition to abortion is what many think fueled the powerful conservative white evangelical right, 81 percent of whom voted for Donald Trump, it was really school integration.

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• SOURCE: The Cornell Daily Sun
  11-4-16
  

  Princeton’s Kevin Kruse Calls 2016 Election Time of ‘Reckoning’ for Religious Right

  “The old cross-denominational coalition of the religious right, one that had been in place since the 1970s has been deeply fragmented.”

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  12-19-13
  

  Pope Francis and the End of the Religious Right?

  by Steven Conn

  The pope is saying it is time for a new kind of political conversation.

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• SOURCE: Alternet
  11-14-13
  

  Sorry, Tea Partyers: Religious Right Rooted in Radical Progressivism

  by Ira Chernus

  How quickly Christian evangelicals forget their movement has a long history of demanding government intervention.