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Some Christian and Muslim Leaders Urging ‘No’ Vote in Australian Mail Ballot on Marriage Equality; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…way to polygamy. Andrews was named “Natural Family Man of the Year” by the World Congress of Families in 2014. Crikey’s politics editor Bernard Keane reported that Lyle Shelton of the Australian Christian Lobby, “one of the highest-profile campaigners against marriage equality,” had endorsed the U.S.-based conservative Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom. Asked whether his group would accept help from ADF, Shelton called them “good pe…

Most U.S. Catholics Back Marriage Equality, But Knights of Columbus Pour Millions into Opposition

By Peter Montgomery

…, the Howard Center for Family, and Religion & Society (which sponsors the World Congress of Families) have been funded by the Knights, but among the largest recipients is the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is aggressively supporting the bishops’ “religious liberty” campaign attacks on the Obama administration. Also released today was a report by the Human Rights Campaign, noting that the Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus are toget…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…reveal their homosexuality. Georgia and its Orthodox Church hosted 2016’s World Congress of Families global summit of social conservative activists; the date was picked to coincide with a mob attack on an anti-homophobia rally in 2013. Germany: Marriage equality passes parliament; Merkel allowed conscience vote but voted no Chancellor Angela Merkel, a longtime opponent of legal marriage for same-sex couples, decided to allow a parliamentary vote…

What’s So Scary About the Inclusion of ‘God’ in the Russian Constitution?

By Katherine Kelaidis

…forces around the world, including Franklin Graham, Steve Bannon, and the World Congress of Families. In fact, it would not be going too far to say that the arch-conservative positions of Kirill’s Russian Orthodox Church operate as an instrument of Russian soft-power, drafting reactionary forces around the world onto the Russian side. It is, for instance, difficult not to see the Patriarch’s ongoing ecclesiastical conflict with the Greek Orthodox…

Fear of U.S. Marriage Equality Exported to Africa

By Kapya Kaoma

…to find such propaganda attractive. Pastor Rick Warren, Scott Lively, the World Congress of Families, Pat Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice, Lou Engle, Sharon Slater’s Family Watch, Catholic Human Life International, Alliance Defending Freedom, and many others from the U.S. have spent years working both domestically and globally to influence governments and cultural attitudes against LGBTQ rights and reproductive freedom. As same-se…

Breivik’s Manifesto on Islam vs. “Christendom” as “Demographic Warfare”

By Sarah Posner

…cs about declining Christian population. As Joyce has written, though, the World Congress of Families, a purveyor of population hysteria, works on an interfaith basis with non-Christians, including conservative Muslims. Still, though, the demographic winter panic feeds on both anti-feminist and anti-Muslim strains of thought (the former by arguing that feminism and reproductive freedom have led to declining religious zeal and declining birth rates…

What Does the ‘Traditional Family’ Have To Do with Pussy Riot?

By Gillian Kane

…nd Kirill endorsed a regional meeting in Moscow hosted by the US-organized World Congress of Families, an international conservative network dedicated to defending traditional values and the “natural family.” In his comments, Hilarion echoed the goals from the DC trip, advocating for “a strategic alliance of Orthodox Christians, Catholics, and traditional Protestants, of all those who defend the true Christian values.” The online debate as to whet…

Religious Hostility to Gay Nigerians; The Pope’s Visit To Africa; Ireland’s Religious Schools Can’t Discriminate Against Gays; Orthodox Church in Georgia Leads Anti-Gay Forces; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ts cultural shifts on LGBT equality, sometimes violently Organizers of the World Congress of Families, which met in Salt Lake City in October, announced at the end of the conference that next year’s gathering would be held in Tlibisi, Georgia. This week, Tom Ana, writing in Muftah, examines the role of the Georgian Orthodox Church in resisting LGBT equality and inciting a violent attack on a pro-LGBT rally in 2013; four attackers were acquitted by…