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He Spent Decades Building the Religious Right. Now He’s Marching to Undo It.

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26.01.2026

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He helped build the religious right in the United States. Now he’s in Minneapolis to join the clergy’s fight against ICE’s siege of the city.

“Being here, in solidarity, is part of the repair work in my own soul,” said the Reverend Rob Schenck, an Evangelical minister who spent decades commingling church and state to advance conservative causes like the anti-abortion movement. One example: Schenck’s........

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