Tying the Not
How the Right Succeeded in Passing Proposition 8

By Surina Khan

On June 26, 2008, 1,000 ministers, mostly from evangelical congregations, met by conference call to discuss tactics for passing Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to ban same sex marriage in California by amending the state constitution. The call was convened by Pastor Jim Garlow from the 2,500-member Skyline Church in San Diego County. The ministers on the call had a far reach: they lead congregations representing about one million people, and Garlow alone provides radio commentary to 629 stations each day.

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NEW Audio: “The New Fascists” An interview with author Spencer Sunshine by Public Eye editor Abby Scher. - Listen

From the podium at the Christian Right’s Values Voter Summit in mid-September, National Review Institute’s Kate O’Beirne, 59, pronounced that the “selection of Sarah Palin [as the GOP vice presidential nominee] sounded the death knell of modern American feminism.”

“She’s a prick to the liberal establishment, to the feminists, and to the men who fear them,” she jeered to the audience of Christian Right activists.

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Latest Issue: Winter 2008

Keeping the Obama Administration on Track for Progress

As progressives who welcome an Obama Administration, we can’t rest on our laurels. We now we have a chance to put the country back on track toward progressive social change, but only if we learn from history. A key lesson is that social movements pull politicians and political movements toward them, not the other way around. PRA Senior Analyst Chip Berlet shares insights from movements and political moments past and present.

New Report! Marriage as a Cure for Poverty? Social Science Through a “Family Values” Lens By Jean V. Hardisty This report exposes the questionable social science justifying George W. Bush’s campaign to promote marriage as a cure for poverty. Rightist academics and think tank researchers ignore data showing that pushing low-income women and men to marry might actually diminish a low income woman’s chances of rising out of poverty, and rely on evidence and reasoning that do not meet scholarly standards. The report is a companion to Dr. Hardisty’s earlier report Pushed to the Altar: The Right Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion.
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