- 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 | September 25, 2017
Banned Books Week Resists Censorship and Celebrates the Freedom to Read
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Blog Post | September 13, 2017
Jeff Sessions’ Lies Reveal the Truth about Trump Rescinding DACA
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Blog Post | July 26, 2017
Federal Judge: Kobach Repeatedly Misled Court In Voting Rights Case
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Blog Post | May 4, 2017
Rabbi Saperstein Provides Needed Truth-Telling at Congressional Hearing on Johnson Amendment
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Blog Post | May 3, 2017
Trump Reportedly Planning To Issue Anti-LGBTQ Executive Order On ‘Religious Liberty’
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Blog Post | April 27, 2017
Department of Education Study Shows DC Voucher Program Championed By Right Wing Hurts Student Achievement
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Blog Post | March 16, 2017
Trump Attack on Arts and Humanities Undermines American Values, Harms American Communities
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Blog Post | February 27, 2017
‘Dismal’ Voucher Results As DeVos Era Begins
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Blog Post | February 16, 2017
Alliance for Justice Report Finds Gorsuch ‘Not Qualified’ for Supreme Court
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Blog Post | February 2, 2017
Legal Scholar Compares ‘Scalia with a Smile’ Neil Gorsuch to Rejected Supreme Court Nominee Robert Bork