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Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ic document that cements some principles for the relationship.” Caribbean: World Congress of Families Holds Regional Gathering The U.S.-based World Congress of Families, which brings together social conservatives from around the glove, held a Caribbean regional conference in Barbados ast weekend. Among the speakers were WCF’s Theresa Okafor, National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown, Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton, and American…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

The World Congress of Families, which brings together American Religious Right activists with their counterparts from around the world, gathers next week in Salt Lake City, Utah, the first time one of its annual summits has been held in the U.S. WCF officials have responded to sharp criticism about the anti-gay work carried out by its partners and participants by declaring themselves committed to respect and civil dialogue. That claim does not st…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…or otherwise punished by the state. The article is an in-depth look at the World Congress of Families’ history, ideology, strategy, and influence. Philippines: Pope criticizes ‘ideological colonization of the family’ Pope Francis drew massive crowds in this week’s visit to the Philippines, the Catholic Church’s stronghold in Asia. He drew the most attention for an off-the-cuff remark about Catholics not needing to breed like rabbits, but he also m…

Kuwait “Morals Committee” Announced Deportation of 76 Gay Men; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…International Organization for the Family, the parent organization to the World Congress of Families, bragged in a fundraising email about the organization working with the government of Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban and praising the campaign Orban has been waging what philanthropist George Soros calls an “unrelenting propaganda campaign” against him, including “seeking to deny accreditation to his Soros-funded university.” As with its backing…

Makers of Depopulation Doc Have a Past

By Kathryn Joyce

…n the main conservative organ for advancing the depopulation argument, the World Congress of Families. The WCF, a meeting ground for all of America’s top Christian right organizations, as well as a wide range of international groups, has appealed to Europeans anxious not just about falling birthrates, but also about rising Muslim populations, with indelicate comparisons between today’s culturally-shifting continent, and Muslim-Christian holy wars…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ulation, and we want to stay like this.” Hungary will host the next global World Congress of Families summit in May. Colombia: Transgender biologist who teaches at Jesuit university becomes arole model Human Rights Watch profiles Brigitte Baptists, a biologist and expert on biodiversity, who “bas become an important role model for LGBT people in education settings” in this “predominantly conservative Catholic country.” Baptiste says that when she…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ization of Marriage’s Brian Brown — most of whom were “recommended” by the World Congress of Families…. Russians invited include Igor Shchegolev – a senior aide to Putin – and Father Tikhon, an Orthodox monk said to be Putin’s confessor, but the list including their names does not indicate whether they accepted the invitation. Chile: Marriage equality bill introduced The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reports that lawmakers in Chile introduced…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rch has commemorated that date with “Family Day” celebrations; In 2016 the World Congress of Families scheduled its global summit in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, around the same anniversary. Russia and Chechnya: More on Chechen violence; activists fined under propaganda law Maxim Lapunov, a 30-year-old man from Siberia, has spoken publicly about the detention and torture he says he experienced in Chechnya. News reports suggest that another victim o…

For International Human Rights Day, a Snapshot of LGBT Rights from the Vatican to Cape Town

By Peter Montgomery

…es as president of the US based National Organization for Marriage and the World Congress of Families, which is now described as a project of the IOF. Brown has been trying to launch an international version of NOM for a few years and it seems as if he has done so, with a declaration whose signers pledge “to resist the rising cultural imperialism of Western powers whose governments seek nothing less than the ideological colonization of the family….

Bad News for LGBT Anglicans, Mormons, Adventists, Norwegians, Russians, Georgians, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Saudis…

By Peter Montgomery

…ina became the first South American country to legalise same-sex marriage. World Congress of Families Slams Obama Admin for Sanctions on Backer of Russian Adoption Ban Don Feder, communications director for the World Congress of Families, told the right-wing WorldNetDaily that head of the Russian parliament’s committee on families Yelena Mizulina was included in the U.S. government’s list of Russian leaders sanctioned in the wake of the Crimea ann…