In June 2010, Ned Holstein, the president of the national group Fathers and Families, appeared on a Boston call-in radio show to promote a child-custody bill before the Massachusetts legislature. “The message is so simple, he said.
We’re fit parents, Read More
Author Archives: Pam Chamberlain
The More Things Change
Continuing Threats to Reproductive Freedom
In the run-up to the August 2009 Congressional recess, TV ads on health care reform hit the airwaves. The Family Research Council’s political action committee launched a five-state effort to squash a comprehensive health care bill with their spot, set Read More
Janice Shaw Crouse
A Warrior With Words
Exactly two months before abortion provider George Tiller was assassinated in the foyer of his church in Wichita, Kansas, Janice Shaw Crouse lent her voice to the chorus of pundits criticizing Tiller’s unwavering support for women who sought his services. Read More
Abstaining from the Truth
Sex Education as Ideology
The Osseo Public School District is in most ways a typical Minnesota suburban system: three high schools, scores of athletic teams, and a graduation rate of 94 percent. But for the past ten years, it has run a dual-track curriculum Read More
Younger Evangelicals
Where Will They Take the Christian Right?
Last October a chartered bus rolled deep through the South, its passengers college-aged young people drawing inspiration from the Freedom Riders of the 1960s. The black vinyl advertising plastered on the side broadcast the riders’ goals, “Equality Ride 2008: Faith Read More
Heritage is Hip to Culture
Think Tank Turns to Family Values
The Heritage Foundation’s headquarters sits two blocks from the Capitol in Washington, D.C., a symbolic representation of its intimate access to Congress and public policymakers. Heritage’s rise to prominence has paralleled the rise to power of conservative political thought. Having Read More
Gay Conservatives
Unwanted Allies on the Right
In the high-adrenaline, and heavily heterosexual, world of Beltway lobbyists, the gay Log Cabin Republicans have their work cut out for them. Ostracized by the Republican Party which continues to receive their fierce loyalty, the LCR is the group that Read More
Politicized Science
How Anti-Abortion Myths Feed the Christian Right Agenda
David Hagar, an OB/GYN physician and a graduate of evangelical Ashbury College in Kentucky, is famous as a man with a mission. Hager believes emergency contraception (EC) is abortion by any other name, and he refuses to administer it in Read More
The Globalization of an Agenda
The Right Targets the UN with its Anti-Choice Politics
This article derived from the PRA report UNdoing Reproductive Freedom: Christian Right NGOs Target the United Nations.
In June 2004, US officials brought along a special guest to a regional United Nations (UN) conference on population issues, held that year Read More
Conservative Campus Organizing
Growing Pains or Arrested Development?
“A few years ago,” the Washington Times reported in a story last year, “Jeff O’Holleran said he began to realize that he was different from the other boys he knew…. Yesterday, he said, it was time to come out of Read More