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Andra Watkins

Parents' Rights is Christian nationalism

This is an excerpt the upcoming memoir "Stigmama: Mother Wounds and the Scars of Christian Nationalism," by Andra Watkins.

So-called Parents' Rights is far more than a benign movement to acknowledge parental prerogatives. It is a concept deeply rooted in Christian Nationalism, the militant Christian minority fighting to remake America in its image: A white Christian nation governed by laws drawn solely from their interpretation of the Bible. Christian Nationalists are aggressively forcing their faith on American society by influencing laws and controlling all forms of education.

I am an unwilling expert on far-right Christian Nationalism. I grew up in a Moral Majority church and school in the 1970s and 80s. I was not taught about my female body, other than to hear my body was a lust-magnet for men.

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