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• Sun, 13:55: REPORT: Argentina Drops Humanitarian Award For Jimmy Carter Upon Demand Of Trump Administration https://t.co/1GOLrDLIeG
• Sun, 14:36: Why do southern states hate their citizens: Florida Deal Would Reverse Key Part of Obama’s Medicaid Expansion https://t.co/AxYmvdidoW
• Sun, 15:31: RT @Stonekettle: Translation: It WILL increase the deficit, but eventually America will elect another Democrat and the deficit will go down…
• Sun, 15:32: RT @universetoday: Europe & China Discuss Moonbase Partnership @storybywill https://t.co/j8VmHaumzJ https://t.co/szB2MUjtRY
• Sun, 18:33: Pho duck II https://t.co/7p41RxkioI
• Sun, 18:38: RT @catvalente: Trump is saying compromise is archaic. No. Authoritarianism is archaic. Kings are archaic. Crushing the poor beneath your h…
• Sun, 18:39: RT @Impolitics: Hitler died 72 years ago today. Bannon has ordered all flags to fly at half mast and Gorka has replaced his usual armband w…
• Sun, 20:28: RT @FullFrontalSamB: .@AllisonBJanney returns to the press room for a briefing with the real fake news. #NotTheWHCD https://t.co/necQ2UmHdK
• Sun, 21:33: Makes you shake your head and wonder: The Women Who Still Like Trump https://t.co/t4LblsNuhn
• Sun, 21:41: Next at the New York Times, they're hiring an astrologer and then an alchemist: Introducing Our New Columnist https://t.co/9A3b4wh6Hv

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Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia

Guns and religion: How American conservatives grew closer to Putin’s Russia
By Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger April 30 at 7:19 PM

Growing up in the 1980s, Brian Brown was taught to think of the communist Soviet Union as a dark and evil place.

But Brown, a leading opponent of same-sex marriage, said that in the past few years he has started meeting Russians at conferences on family issues and finding many kindred spirits.

Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, has visited Moscow four times in four years, including a 2013 trip during which he testified before the Duma as Russia adopted a series of anti-gay laws.

“What I realized was that there was a great change happening in the former Soviet Union,” he said. “There was a real push to re-instill Christian values in the public square.”

A significant shift has been underway in recent years across the Republican right. Moar