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Right Wing Round-Up - 5/24/16

Briefing
by
Kyle Mantyla
  • Warren Throckmorton: With David Barton as Principal Officer, Non-Profit Mercury One Again Gave $100k to Barton’s Wallbuilders For Disaster Relief.

  • Peter Montgomery @ Religion Dispatches: Competing Visions of Family & Freedom at UN; Methodists Try to Avoid Schism on Sexuality; Catholic Cardinal Denounces LGBT ‘Demonic Ideology’; Global LGBT Recap.

  • Matthew Yglesias @ Vox: Republican Jewish Coalition won't say where all the anti-Semitic invective is coming from.

  • Allegra Kirkland @ TPM: Great White Hope: Trump Unites Generations Of White Nationalists.

  • Zachary Roth @ MSNBC: Far-right nativists eye Kris Kobach for Donald Trump’s vice president.

  • Robin Marty @ Care2: There May Soon Be No Place Left in the South for Abortions After The First Trimester.

  • Zack Ford @ Think Progress: How A Conservative Law Firm Is Duping Schools Into Passing Anti-Transgender Policies.

  • Ken Meyer @ Mediaite: Sam Bee Breaks Down How the Religious Right Devised Conservative Obsession with Abortion.

On the Watchlist
David Barton

David Barton

Despite having obtained only a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oral Roberts University in the 1970s, David Barton now routinely bills himself as “America’s premier historian” and has established a reputation as the Religious Right’s go-to “expert” for making the case that the Founding Fathers intended to establish America to be a Christian nation that operates according to the laws of God as set out in the Bible.
Donald Trump

Donald Trump