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Culture
Shocks
With BARRY LYNN
KCAA 1050 AM 106.5 FM
Fridays at 3 p.m.
Culture Shocks
Show Summary
04/26/19
FREDERICK CLARKSON—is a journalist and public speaker on religion and politics. He serves as Senior Research Analyst at Political Research Associates and has been exposing and battling the agenda of the Christian Right longer than Barry. The author of ETERNAL HOSTILITY and DISPATCHES FROM THE RELIGIOUS LEFT, Fred latest work center on Project Blitz, the Right’s effort to lure America, state by state, into a theocratic nightmare.
Fred and Barry explore whether there is even an actual “religious left”, what progressives should think about Democratic Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg when he affirms LGBTQ rights by appeal to his Christian beliefs, and the organizing differences between the left and the right.
TONI VAN PELT— is the 12th President of the National Organization For Women, riding atop the shoulders of such extraordinary feminist icons as Betty Friedan, Patricia Ireland, Ellie Smeal, Kim Gandy, and Terry O’Neil. Toni’s activism runs deep in Florida and her commitment to social justice invokes the interconnectedness of communities of color, the LGBTQ movement and issues of church/state separation, reproductive justice and wealth inequality. She and Barry discuss their hopes for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, how the NRA is trying to gut renewal of the Violence Against Women Act, and the future of litigation at the Supreme Court. www.now.org
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