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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…

Mexican Marriage Marches Show Struggle Between Church and Secular State; Pro-LGBT Mormon Group Grows After ‘Apostate’ Declaration; Botswana Gives Anti-Gay US Pastor the Boot; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…mbers talking about their experience. It made me feel attacked at church.” World Congress of Families: Nairobi conference draws international Religious Right support The World Congress of Families, a global network of anti-LGBT and anti-abortion groups, held a regional conference in Nairobi, Kenya this past weekend. American Religious Right figures on the schedule included Don Feder of the World Congress of Families, Sharon Slater of Family Watch…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…of Families, Fears of Loss of Olympic Spotlight We have written about the World Congress of Families and its plans for a 2014 summit in Moscow. Writing in Mother Jones, Hannah Levintova examines the WCF’s history and the role of its leaders and other American evangelicals who fostered Russia’s anti-gay movement. WCF has lent its support to anti-gay politics elsewhere in Eastern Europe—Serbia, Lithuania, Romania—but it has had its biggest and most…

Warships, Animals, Pubs Eligible For Blessings From Church of England, But Not Same-Sex Couples; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hurch statement cited its agreement with US-based Brian Brown, head of the World Congress of Families and International Organization for the Family. Brown recently traveled through Russia and several European countries while promoting the IOF’s Declaration on the Family and Marriage. In an email to supporters, Brown gushed about his “incredible trip in eastern Europe,” including his address to “over 1,000 pro-family activists” in Serbia. Church of…