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More Bleak Times For Indonesian LGBTs; South Africa Bans Extremist Anti-Gay US Pastor; Mexican Marriage Struggle Heats Up; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Brian Brown, who heads both the National Organization for Marriage and the World Congress of Families, announced this week that he will be heading to Mexico to lend his support. The National Organization for Marriage is also organizing an anti-marriage-equality rally on Friday September 23 at the Mexican embassy in Washington, D.C. Despite the backlash against the president’s proposal to guarantee marriage equality in the country’s constitution, l…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…esus Christ of Latter Day Saints, fresh from playing a visible role at the World Congress of Families in Salt Lake City, announced this week that children living with a same-sex couple, whether adopted or the natural child of one of the parents, cannot be blessed or baptized. Natural or adopted children living in a same-sex household will only be allowed to be baptized once they are 18, disavow the practice of same-sex cohabitation or marriage, an…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…WCF’s Nigerian Honoree: Gay Rights Activists Conspire with Boko Haram The World Congress of Families, a U.S.-based organization that partners with many Religious Right groups to promote its anti-gay and anti-choice work globally, announced this week therecipients of its Lifetime Achievement Award and “Natural Family Man and Woman of the Year Awards.” Notes Miranda Blue at Right Wing Watch: Naturally, WCF – which recently suspended planning on a c…

Belize Overturns Sodomy Law Defended by Religious Right, Ugandan Officials Will Continue to Suppress Gay Groups, And More on the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…dum. Anti-gay Georgian religious and political figures recently hosted the World Congress of Families annual summit. Uganda: Government officials say they will continue to suppress gay groups The Ugandan government said “it will ‘continue to suppress’ the public activities of homosexuals and that a rehabilitation program had been developed to allow them to ‘lead normal lives again,’” reports Associated Press: Ugandan police last week arrested abou…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…n for copy-cat legislation popping up in Russia’s sphere of influence. The World Congress of Families’ Larry Jacobs praised the law and gushed that “the Russians might be the Christian saviors to the world.” The World Congress of Families is a global collection of culture warriors that oppose legal abortion, legal recognition of LGBT rights, and comprehensive sex education. The WCF has a long relationship with Russian politicians, oligarchs, relig…

Conservative Anglican Bishops Threaten To Split Communion; Malawi Opposition Leader Says Gays Should Be Killed; Anti-Marriage Effort Makes European Union Question Initiative Process; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ht-wing leaders and groups in Europe, many of which are connected with the World Congress of Families and American Religious Right groups. I reported on the initiative in October for Right Wing Watch: The proposal would allow member states to have more inclusive definitions of marriage within their borders, but they would not be recognizes under European Union law, and other countries would not be required to recognize them. More specifically, the…

Can Mormon Glenn Beck Unite the Christian Right?

By Kathryn Joyce

…a baby Mormon, a coalition of mostly US-based religious right groups, the World Congress of Families, has attempted to rally religious conservatives at international “pro-family” conferences to transcend theological differences to unite against common enemies: feminism, homosexuality, liberal attitudes towards sexuality and reproductive rights, and the separation of church and state. The WCF followed the rise of a global conservative movement in…

Pence Amendment not Just About Abortion, but About Thwarting Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…control” measures like Title X. The Howard Center is the organizer of the World Congress of Families, whose international gatherings draw religious right, anti-feminist, anti-choice, and other conservative “pro-family” groups from around the world. Its 2009 conference, held in Amsterdam, featured American speakers from numerous influential organizations including Focus on the Family, the Alliance Defense Fund, Concerned Women for America, The Her…

Turkish Police Move Against Activists Who Defied Pride Ban; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

The anti-equality World Congress of Families will hold its fourth Caribbean regional summit on June 29 and 30 in St. John’s Antigua, with speakers from US Religious Right groups Focus on the Family and Family Watch International joining Caribbean-based leaders. The summit is being organized by the Christian Coalition for a Healthy Society, Antigua. As Pride month continues, Human Rights Watch released a compilation of 63 country profiles document…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ons named in the partnership law, such as parenting. Hungary will host the World Congress of Families summit in May. Netherlands: Mobile app designed to help LGBT migrants & refugees Dutch officials have created a mobile app to help LGBT migrants get information on refugee rights and resources and Dutch asylum procedures. Liberia: Essay on ‘tacit tolerance’ and backlash to public pressure for LGBT equality Baba Sillah, a Liberian post-graduate stu…