Abbott Flirts With Endorsing School Vouchers

Primary challengers pressure the governor from the right

"...week in Lewisville to tout a parental bill of rights was expected to be a full-throated endorsement of vouchers,..."

Jan. 28, 2022 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Austin Film Festival Review: Larry Flynt for President

New documentary gets inside the Hustler publisher's campaign

"...time when the Republican Party was doubling-down on the religious right, the unholy alliance of conservative Christianity and commerce..."

Oct. 25, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

City Theatre's Parallel Lives: The Kathy and Mo Show

Two great performances drive this production, but the feminist comedy feels stuck in the Eighties

"...as they were in 1986. Other topics, like the rights of trans women or the #MeToo movement, are obviously..."

June 7, 2019 Arts Review by Laura Jones

Lt. Governor

Anything but Dan Patrick

"...trust me, that's a high bar. Patrick transferred his right-wing radio show demagoguery to the Capitol, where he served..."

Feb. 9, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Rev. Larry Bethune Retires From University Baptist Church

Pioneering pastor steps down after three decades with influential church

"...morning service," with former Mayor Kirk Watson in attendance. [inset-1-right]..."

Sept. 29, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Austin Film Festival: Mental Illness in the Movies

Donnie Darko, Fight Club scribes on the sanity spectrum

"...is a powerful tool in the hands of the right author, and when it comes to movies, nothing is..."

Oct. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Rod Machen

Rock-'Em-Sock-'Em Hotshots

Firefighters box cops for charity in 'Battle of the Badges'

"...you know, juking, jiving, dropping hooks from left and right...."

July 14, 2014 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

What Ted Cruz Doesn't Know About Apartheid

And it's not just what the word means

"...Endowment for International Peace's Policy Brief, "Much of the religious right backed the war in Iraq not because they..."

May 2, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

The AggreGAYtor: July 24

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Christian Austinite has penned an impassioned defense of queer rights against the religious right...."

July 24, 2013 Qmmunity Post

Perry: Not Running for Governor in 2014

Greg Abbott expected to throw hat in the ring

"...the state and overseen a radical push to the right in the political climate...."

July 12, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Hightower Report: She'll Be Gone, but Her Spirit Will Linger

Michele Bachmann promises to 'keep our country from becoming'

"...So perkily quirky, so ridiculously right-wing, so piously hypocritical, so incoherently pontifical – the Minnesota..."

June 14, 2013 News Column by Jim Hightower

The AggreGAYtor: March 11

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• She's your queen to be. A queen to..."

March 11, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The AggreGAYtor: November 12

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga promises passage of..."

Nov. 12, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The AggreGAYtor: October 29

Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news

"...• Iowan married lesbian couple fights for right to include both parent’s names on stillborn child’s death..."

Oct. 29, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The AggreGAYtor: July 25

Your daily does of LGBTQ news

"...Post and the Drudge Report. It seems the evangelical right has a new talking point. It can’t be long..."

July 25, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

sxswf: Reel Crime, Real Victims

Phil Anselmo, Hart Fisher talk pain and punishment

"...16, and she can probably brace herself for criticism right now. People are drawn, she said, to "the bad..."

March 26, 2011 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place

Top 10s from the bottom to the top

"...would put them deeper in the pockets of the religious right and oil lobbies. Jesus** help us all...."

Jan. 7, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

Regularly Delusional

"...and civilization are existentially threatened. That’s where we are right now! Subjectivism is the parent of utopian leftism, a..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Postmarks

Page Two: The Ways Sisyphus Had It Easy

Consequences of perception

"...Many conservatives, Republicans, members of the religious right, and those who hate liberals in general and..."

Oct. 8, 2010 Column by Louis Black

Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond

"...Freedom Net­work, an activist organization dedicated to fighting the religious right's influence in schools, has grown weary of trying..."

March 26, 2010 News Feature

Tim Miller Preaches to the Choir

Review of The Lay of the Land at the Vortex Theater

"...the intersection of queer theatre and politics. For the religious fanatics who revile him, and for the artists and..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer

Point Austin: More Mavericks

You need a Texas scorecard to sort out the pretenders from the real thing

"...away good governance to curry favor with the radical religious right."..."

Sept. 12, 2008 News Column by Michael King

ACLU, Free Market Foundation Want In On Speaker Race

Rights group and religious right suing Texas Ethics Commission over right to pump money into speaker race.

"...but the unexpected grouping of the ACLU of Texas, religious right advocates the Free Market Foundation and conservative followers..."

Feb. 13, 2008 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Scapegoating Rather Than Dealing With the Problem

"...the two evils, illegal immigration notwithstanding. Further, bringing the “religious right” into the debate is an off-topic belly-up red..."

July 5, 2006 Postmarks

Run-off Roundup

Strama Prepares to Face Fleece – and Leininger

"...Freshman Democratic Rep. Mark Strama had right-wing millionaire James Leininger on his mind Wednesday morning, the..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Run-off Roundup

District 47: Welch vs. Bolton

"...liberal progressive roots while Welch shifted further to the right to better compete with Castano and his religious right..."

April 14, 2006 News Feature by Amy Smith

Vote 'No' on Proposition 2

"...(2003 U.S. census figures) will permanently be denied the right to ever “legally” substantiate their relationships in precisely the..."

Oct. 18, 2005 Postmarks

Prejudice Presented as Religion: Is This Really What God Wants?

"...online," March 26], I am again appalled by the religious right's attempts to use their "ceaseless faith" to justify..."

March 30, 2004 Postmarks

War by the (Text)book

The State Board of Education's first public hearing on social studies textbooks confirmed that, underneath the thin cloak of bureaucratic civility, an ideological battle is raging over whose story the textbooks should tell.

"...Freedom Network, a watchdog organization founded to monitor the religious right, has started a campaign dubbed "I Object!" to..."

July 26, 2002 News Feature by Michael May

Letters at 3AM

Sometime in the wee hours of September 12, George W. Bush realized that he is the President of United States and rose from his previous ineffectuality to meet the occasion.

"...The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Gettysburg Address; the astonishingly consistent technological and cultural..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

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