InvestigationPolitics The Christian Nationalist Boot Camp Pushing Anti-Trans Laws Across America The Statesmen Academy elevates the profiles of right-wing lawmakers and helps them promote legislation rooted in baseless distortions of science and medicine. Sarah PosnerBusiness InsiderSeptember 21, 2022
InvestigationPolitics Deal With the Devil The roots of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe go back 50 years, to when zealots preaching a gospel of misogyny and homophobia—led by an accused sexual predator—took over the Southern Baptist Convention, America’s largest Protestant denomination. Sarah PosnerThe NationSeptember 12, 2022
InvestigationJustice Andrew Hartzler Wasn’t Allowed To Be Gay on Campus. So He’s Suing. A lawsuit seeks to end an exemption to Title IX that has allowed religious schools to receive lucrative federal funding despite policies that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. Sarah PosnerPolitico MagazineMay 20, 2022
AnalysisHealth, Politics Overturning Roe Is the Crowning Achievement of Christian Nationalism Sarah PosnerThe NationMay 9, 2022
InvestigationJustice, Politics A Christian Foster Home Had a Troubling Past. Trump Gave It Millions to House Immigrant Kids Anyway. How taxpayer money might end up supporting “facilities that compromise the safety of children.” Sarah PosnerMother JonesNovember 2, 2020
InvestigationJustice, Politics Trump’s Christian Judges March On The president has packed the courts with judges friendly to the Christian Right — and they could roll back LGBTQ rights as we know them. Sarah PosnerRolling StoneOctober 9, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Politics Evangelical Pastors Seize Political Opportunity in Coronavirus Crisis The real reason some parishioners are being encouraged to hug in church. Sarah PosnerHuffPostApril 15, 2020
InvestigationPolitics The Army Of Prayer Warriors Fighting Trump’s Impeachment As the Senate takes up his impeachment trial, white Christian evangelicals remain firmly in the president’s corner. Sarah PosnerHuffPostDecember 19, 2019
InvestigationJustice, Politics Inside The Christian Legal Army Weakening the Church-State Divide New documents offer a window into the ideology embraced by a Christian-right legal powerhouse that enjoys unprecedented influence throughout the Trump administration. Sarah PosnerTalking Points MemoOctober 4, 2019
ImpactJustice, Politics Anti-Gay Discrimination, Unleashed On Thursday the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal sued the Trump administration and the state of South Carolina over a religious exemption that permitted child placement agency Miracle Hill Ministries to discriminate against prospective foster care parents. Sarah PosnerMay 31, 2019