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CRAVEing Attention 09/03/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Don Swarthout, founder of Christians Reviving America's ValuEs [C.R.A.V.E.]-  a low-level right-wing group that occasionally pops up on the radar by announcing things like its bold plans to launch a brigade of …

This is The Call 08/01/2008 by Kyle Mantyla As we wrote about last week , The Call is a kind of youth-oriented spin-off of the Promise Keepers 1997’s rally on the National Mall that claims to be less about politics and more about “fasting and prayer for …

The Predictable Return of the National Black Republican Association 07/02/2008 by Kyle Mantyla Via Sam Stein , we learn that the National Black Republican Association has made another of its election year forays onto the political scene with yet another …

String of Losses Causes Right to Lose It 06/04/2008 by Kyle Mantyla As we noted a few weeks ago, the Right did not react well to the California Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians, with people like Janet Folger …

Abstinence-Only Campaign Ramps Up 06/03/2008 by Right Wing Watch Staff As Congress debates whether to continue federal funding of abstinence-only sexuality education, the National Abstinence Education Association is launching an effort to organize a …

Readers: Be Prepared for Far-Right Politics 02/26/2008 by Right Wing Watch Staff The governor of Texas has written a new book about the Boy Scouts, but parents expecting a positive, civic-minded story about personal development will be disappointed: …

Parsley and Hunter: Planned Parenthood = Hitler 01/31/2008 by Right Wing Watch Staff As the nation celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. last week, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council wrote of what he called the “ irony ” of the fact that …

"A Gathering of Eagles" 12/04/2007 by Kyle Mantyla Pass the Salt Ministries (yes, you read that right) has big news for right-wing activists in Ohio -  a bevy of second and third-tier Religious Right leaders will be gracing their fair state later this …

The Perils of Wooing Pat Robertson 11/07/2007 by Kyle Mantyla In endorsing Rudy Giuliani today, Pat Robertson made clear that his support was based on his belief that Giuliani was the candidate best suited to defend “our population from the blood lust of …

Family Impact Summit: Homosexuality and Youth 09/24/2007 by Peter Montgomery A final dispatch from the Family Impact Summit : The session on Homosexuality and Youth was dominated by the youth division of Exodus, an organization that believes gays can and …