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Right Wing Round-Up - 8/21/15

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Kyle Mantyla
  • Peter Montgomery @ Religion Dispatches: Istanbul ‘Haven of Sorts’ For LGBT Syrians and Iraqis; Cayman Islands Affirm Marriage Ban with ‘Holy Bible Evidence'; No Room for LGBTs in Malaysia’s ‘Islam-Based’ Human Rights Policy; Global LGBT Recap.

  • Amanda Terkel @ The Huffington Post: Scott Walker Says There Are A 'Handful Of Reasonable, Moderate Followers Of Islam'.

  • Warren Throckmorton: Note to David Barton: The Obama Admin’s Justice Dept Has Prosecuted 12,859 Defendants for Child Porn Related Crimes Since FY 2009.

  • James Edwards @ PRI's The World: The white supremacists lining up behind Trump.

  • Irin Carmon @ MSNBC: Why some GOPers want to ban abortion without exceptions.

  • Media Matters: Fox's Tantaros Responds To Women Passing Army Ranger Test: It Seems Like "Men Can't Have Anything To Themselves Anymore".

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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.
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