Alan Sears

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Anti-Choice Leaders Join Dominionist Rally In DC, Pray For ‘Massive Shift’ On Supreme Court

On Monday, dominionist preacher Lou Engle convened Rise Up, the latest in his series of political prayer rallies organized under the banner of “The Call,” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Why Has The Religious Right Embraced Neo-Confederate Michael Peroutka?

Our friends at the Southern Poverty Law Center have obtained a copy of the 2014 membership list of the Council for National Policy, a secretive group led by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins that includes a who’s who of leaders of the Religious Right and the wider conservative movement wh

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Conservative Groups Circle The Wagons On SCOTUS Obstruction

When the news broke of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death on Saturday, Republicans in the Senate almost immediately vowed to block the nomination of any person President Obama puts forward to fill the empty Supreme Court seat. Conservative groups quickly followed suit, putting forward various rationales

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Albert Mohler at CNP: Freedom To Preach Gospel Threatened By 'Erotic Liberty'

The secretive Council for National Policy (CNP) and the Conservative Action Project, right-wing coalitions that are trying to figure out how to get conservative evangelicals united around one of the many GOP presidential candidates vying for their support, met outside Washington, D.C.