- 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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All Posts
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Blog Post | February 15, 2019
The Progressive Happy Hour: How the Religious Right is Informing Policy
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Blog Post | February 1, 2019
Tracking the Evolution of the Right’s Anti-Immigrant Movement
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Blog Post | January 11, 2019
The Progressive Happy Hour: The Trump/Republican Shutdown
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Blog Post | October 5, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: The Right’s Reaction to the Kavanaugh Hearings
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Blog Post | September 4, 2018
Norman Lear: The Religious Right Has Co-Opted the First Amendment
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Blog Post | March 28, 2018
Rise in Religious Intolerance Threatens U.S. Ability To Advocate For Human Rights Globally
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Blog Post | March 2, 2018
The Progressive Happy Hour: The Trumpification of CPAC
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Blog Post | January 5, 2018
Progressive Happy Hour: LGBTQ Equality in the Trump Era
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Blog Post | December 1, 2017
The Progressive Happy Hour: The Other Roy Moore Scandal
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Blog Post | October 30, 2017
Don’t Let Republican Smears Distract From Trump Judges’ Horrible Records