- Right-Wing Movements
- LGBTQ Equality
- Religious Right
Peter Montgomery has studied the Religious Right movement and its right-wing political allies for more than two decades. He has written extensively about marriage equality, religious liberty, and other conflicts at the intersection of religion, politics and LGBTQ issues. He has been cited as an expert in national publications including the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The New Yorker, and has appeared on national broadcast outlets including MSNBC and National Public Radio.
Montgomery is also an associate editor for online magazine Religion Dispatches, and his writing appears in The American Prospect, The Public Eye, Alternet and other progressive outlets. He authored a chapter on the relationship between the Religious Right and Tea Party movements that appears in “Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party,” published by the University of California Press in 2012.
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Blog Post | October 31, 2019
Help Danica Roem Beat Back the Bigots
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Blog Post | September 25, 2019
Action for Banned Books Week: Call Out Policies that Keep Books From Incarcerated People
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Blog Post | September 23, 2019
Banned Books Week: Oppose Censorship and ‘Keep the Light On’
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Blog Post | September 19, 2019
With Lives and Liberties in the Balance, Kavanaugh’s Confirmation is Unfinished Business
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Blog Post | August 15, 2019
‘A Quiet Army in Himself’: Trump Judges are Giving Clarence Thomas the Judicial ‘Troops’ to Remake Constitutional Law
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Blog Post | July 23, 2019
For Trump, Racism is an Election Strategy. For the Republican Right, it’s a Path to Power.
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Blog Post | July 23, 2019
Right Recalls Bork Battle While Trump Judges Are Making ‘Bork’s America’ a Harsh Reality
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Blog Post | May 2, 2019
Trump Administration Finalizes Religious Refusals Rule That Threatens Access to Health Care
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Blog Post | April 10, 2019
Texas Bill Could Lead to Women Being Executed for Having an Abortion
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Blog Post | February 15, 2019
The Progressive Happy Hour: How the Religious Right is Informing Policy