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Institute on Religion and Democracy Posts Archive
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Monday 01/03/2011, 3:49pm
Writing for the American Spectator, Jeff Walton of the Institute on Religion and Democracy condemned the State Department for advancing the rights of gays and lesbians abroad. The IRD is a far-right group with a two-pronged strategy to advance its opposition to gay rights: dividing and decrying churches, particularly Mainline Protestant denominations, which favor LGBT equality, while at the same time aiding and promoting groups in Africa and the U.S. that attack gays and even support the criminalization of homosexuality. Most recently, the IRD vilified a North Carolina church group for... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 04/23/2010, 12:24pm
I'm going to be off until next Wednesday, starting this afternoon, so here is an early wrap-up of today's right-wing miscellany:
Jesse Lee Peterson declares Michael Steele to be a RINO for saying that Blacks do not have a reason to vote for the GOP. Now Tom Tancredo going after the SPLC. As is the Traditional Values Coalition's Andrea Lafferty, who also claims that PFAW is a "leftist hate group". The Institute on Religion and Democracy is calling on churches to "confront Islamic law" here in America. Finally, Tim Tebow was drafted by the... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 03/19/2010, 11:25am
Back in 2004, Chuck Colson warned that failing to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment would lead to more terrorism by "inflaming radical Islam" and "handing moral weapons of mass destruction to those who use America's decadence to recruit more snipers and hijackers and suicide bombers."
That seems to be the sort of logic at work here as Jeff Walton of The Institute on Religion and Democracy warns that the Episcopal Church's election of a lesbian bishop, Mary Glasspool, will endanger the lives on Christians in Africa:
According to Jeff Walton with the Institute on Religion... MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 11/19/2009, 10:40am
Political Research Associates has released a new report, written by PRA Project Director Reverend Kapya Kaoma, entitled "Globalizing the Culture Wars: U.S. Conservatives, African Churches, and Homophobia" [PDF] which explores how figures like Rick Warren and Scott Lively and organizations like the Institute on Religion and Democracy have been promoting "an agenda in Africa that aims to criminalize homosexuality and otherwise infringe upon the human rights of LGBT people while also mobilizing African clerics in U.S. culture war battles."
From the PRA press release:
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