Editing Bad Religion (section)

===Politics===
Many of Bad Religion's songs are about different social ills, although they try not to ascribe the causes of these ills to any single person or group. Greg Graffin believes that the current political situation in the United States can make it difficult to voice these concerns as he does not want to feed the polarization of viewpoints.<ref name="Lyxzén">{{cite web|url=http://www.badreligion.com/news/?id=9 |title=Brett Gurewitz Interview |first=Dennis|last=Lyxzén |date=June 29, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070406100750/http://www.badreligion.com/news/?id=9 |archive-date=April 6, 2007 }}</ref>

The band contributed a song to the ''[[Rock Against Bush]]'' series organized by [[Fat Mike]]'s Punkvoter, a political activist group and website whose supporters are primarily [[left-liberal]] members of the punk subculture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.punkvoter.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140718095516/http://www.punkvoter.com/|url-status=dead|title=PunkVoter.com - Sign Up|archive-date=July 18, 2014|website=Punkvoter.com|access-date=October 18, 2019}}</ref>

Brett Gurewitz attributed his anger towards former U.S. president [[George W. Bush]] as the major inspiration for ''[[The Empire Strikes First]]''. "Our whole album is dedicated to getting Bush out of office. I'm not a presidential scholar, but I don't think you'll find a worse president in the history of the United States. He's probably one of the worst leaders in the history of world leaders. I just hate the guy."<ref name="Lyxzén" /> In a similar fashion, the album ''[[Age of Unreason (album)|Age of Unreason]]'' was inspired by the band's disdain for [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laweekly.com/super-powers-and-punk-rock-brett-gurewitz-crosses-mediums-to-spread-important-messages/|title=Super Powers and Punk Rock: Brett Gurewitz Crosses Mediums to Spread Important Messages|first=Brett|last=Callwood|date=July 11, 2018|website=[[LA Weekly]]|access-date=October 18, 2019}}</ref>

Bad Religion performed at [[L7 (band)|L7's]] [[Abortion-rights movements|abortion-rights]] benefit [[Rock for Choice]] at the [[Hollywood Palladium]] on April 30, 1993, with acts such as [[Stone Temple Pilots]], [[White Zombie (band)|White Zombie]], [[Bikini Kill]], [[King Missile]], and [[Free Kitten (band)|Free Kitten]] with [[Kim Gordon]]. Hetson often wore a Rock for Choice T-shirt when performing, as he did when the band performed "21st Century (Digital Boy)" on [[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]] in 1994. Bentley has also worn Rock for Choice T-shirts, such as when they performed the [[Phoenix Festival#1993|Phoenix Festival]] in the United Kingdom in 1993. The band's song, "Operation Rescue", on ''Against the Grain'' is a pro-choice song (named after [[Anti-abortion movements|anti-abortion]] organization [[Operation Save America|Operation Rescue]]).