Peter Montgomery

Maine's investigation of the National Organization for Marriage's campaign finance practices has resulted in the release of several internal fundraising and planning documents. HRC has posted them online where NOM-watchers are poking through them. For sheer reprehensibility, it's hard to top hiring (or at least planning to hire)...

Monday was a lousy day for Rick Santorum's campaign. Reporters repeatedly questioned him about his Sunday evening appearance at Tony Perkins' home church, where, as People For the American Way's Right Wing Watch blog reported, Santorum applauded a pastor who screamed that America was a Christian nation and...

House Republicans kept up their attacks on President Obama's supposed "hostility" to religious liberty with a Judiciary Committee hearing that lasted well into the evening on Tuesday. Bishop William Lori, who heads the Catholic bishops' new "religious liberty" task force, reprised his appearance before the recent Oversight Committee hearing and...

The Values Voter Summit, the year's biggest political gathering for the Religious Right, took place in Washington, D.C. this past weekend. Every Republican presidential candidate with the exception of Jon Huntsman addressed the summit, evidence of the continuing importance of Religious Right activists and political groups to the...

Before the smoke had cleared from the 9/11 attacks, the nation faced a series of tests beyond the challenges of rescue and recovery. Almost immediately, Americans began asking whether we could stay true to our country's ideals while seeking justice and strengthening our security. Ten years later, how have we...

Casual viewers of "The Response," including some political reporters who don't pay a lot of attention to the Religious Right, may have watched Texas Governor Rick Perry's prayer rally on Saturday and wondered what all the fuss was about. Most of the time was taken up with prayer and praise...

Mitt Romney's speech on religious liberty and the role his faith would play in his presidency - the long-discussed "JFK speech" -- included some Kennedy-esque rhetoric about the fundamental importance of religious liberty, but it was a far cry from JFK's ringing endorsement of church-state separation.

The timing of Romney's...

After months of dithering about whether to make a major speech about his Mormon faith, GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney is scheduled to address "Faith in America" at the George H. W. Bush Presidential Library Thursday night. John F. Kennedy's famous speech to Protestant ministers in Houston...

Rudy Giuliani, the self-described pro-choice, pro-gay rights presidential candidate, aggressively sought and won the endorsement of Pat Robertson, a televangelist with a decades-long record of extremism and offensive attacks on women, feminists, gay people, liberals, and non-Christians.

But what appears to be a political odd couple may in fact be...

Even though every Republican presidential candidate dutifully trekked to the "Values Voter Summit" to seek the support of Religious Right leaders and activists this month, some in the media are declaring the movement dead as a political force. Here's why they're dead wrong.

It's true that some leaders are...

Talk about bad timing! Time magazine's cover story telling Americans the Supreme Court isn't relevant to their lives appeared the very same week that every major Republican presidential candidate will appear before the right-wing leaders at the so-called "Values Voter Summit" and pledge more Supreme Court justices in the...

On Thursday May 3, the House of Representatives overcame an intensive propaganda campaign by anti-gay organizations and passed hate crimes legislation that would allow federal law enforcement officials to step in when state or local officials cannot or will not prosecute a violent hate crime. That's...

You have got to be kidding. Dinesh D'Souza publishes a book called The Enemy Within: The Cultural Left and its Responsibility for 9/11, and then gets space in the Washington Post to declare his critics hysterical? D'Souza and his publisher have clearly embraced Ann Coulter's road-to-riches strategy: make the...