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Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…National Organization for Marriage, has also been elected president of the World Congress of Families, which resists the advance of LGBT equality worldwide. This week the Southern Poverty Law Center released its report on the WCF’s gathering in Tbilisi, Georgia last month, which it said showcased anti-LGBT rhetoric and conspiracy theories. Mexico: President promotes constitutional guarantee of LGBT equality; Mormon Church objects As Mexico’s compl…

2017 Around the World: Progress and Persecution For LGBT People

By Peter Montgomery

…Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights, in New York. The World Congress of Families’ 2018 global summit will be held in Moldova. According to Tass, “Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill I has accepted the invitation from President Igor Dodon of Moldova to make a pastoral visit to the republic” during the WCF gathering in September. “Dodon sayd Kirill I and he had discussed the importance of protecting and consolidating the t…

Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party

By Michelle Goldberg

…nt. Wardle, who is close to both Wilkins and Carlson and who has spoken at World Congress of Families events, suggests that members of the LDS church may have been more comfortable taking an active role in this global movement because of its low public profile. “The church’s involvement there didn’t create the same kind of a backlash that it does in California. It occurs in venues where the church’s involvement would not be provocative,” he said….

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…he Independent, the documentary focused on anti-gay “villains” such as the World Congress of Families. “View footage of any high-level meeting to draft draconian, homophobic legislation, anywhere in the world, and it seems you’ll find a WCF member or affiliate lurking in the corner of the frame.” The documentary includes interviews with two men who were arrested in Uganda for being gay. Special U.S. Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT People Randy…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…bal (London and Brooklyn: Verso, 2023). [26] Southern Poverty Law Center, “World Congress of Families,” Accessed March 6, 2024; Political Research Associates, “Profiles on the Right: World Congress of Families,” November 4, 2013; Stroop, “A Right-Wing International?” [27] Neil Datta, “Tip of the Iceberg: Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality & Reproductive Health in Europe,” European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Repr…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…last week, that gathering was held without the official sponsorship of the World Congress of Families, who pulled their support under pressure after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, but with several WCF officials in attendance. So it was interesting yesterday to see Turtle Bay and Beyond, a blog sponsored by C-FAM, run a lengthy post by contributor J.C. von Krempach, in which he acknowledges that Putin is using anti-choice and anti-LGBT policies for c…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…uality” A nonprofit organization, Arizona-based FWI is affiliated with the World Congress of Families, an Illinois think tank which conducts international conferences to promote their vision for “the natural family”—“the fundamental social unit, inscribed in human nature, and centered around the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage.” Most of the conferences are outside the United States and have focused on develo…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…Konstantin Malofeev, who is also heavily involved with the Illinois-based World Congress of Families. According to a talk WCF’s managing director gave in February, Malofeev’s St. Basil the Great Foundation was to be a major sponsor of WCF’s since-postponed conference in Moscow this year and Malofeev was a member of the conference’s planning committee. It was also Malofeev who hosted the meeting in Moscow that National Organization for Marriage pr…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mning anti-gay violence in Chechnya. Speaking of anti-LGBT onslaughts, the World Congress of Families has several upcoming regional conferences featuring speakers from US-based conservative Christian culture war groups: A November 17-18 WCF Caribbean Conference will be held in St. Lucia. In addition to Rebekah Ali-Gouveia, WCF’s regional coordinator, the conference is being organized by Sarah Flood-Beaubrun, a member of the St. Lucian Parliament a…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…est. Concerned Women for America announced it would not participate in the World Congress of Families’ summit that in Moscow in September – especially surprising since CWA’s Janice Crouse had taken part in a recent press conference touting the event. On March 7, Scott Lively, the anti-gay activist who has reveled in stirring up homophobia around the globe, made the case for American decline and Russian ascendancy based on the countries’ attitudes…