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uhnope

(6,419 posts)
Mon Jun 15, 2015, 04:28 PM Jun 2015

The New Fascism: Putin's Russia and the American Christian Right team up

It’s easy to dismiss this plan, if only for the irony of Christian conservatives teaming up with Russia (!) to fight LGBTs and women at the United Nations. New World Order indeed. But irony aside, they might just win.
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One of WCF’s biggest successes is Russia. Beginning in the 1990s, Carlson and his Russian counterparts—conservative sociologists at Lomonosov Moscow State University—melded American “family values” conservatism with Russian concerns about a “demographic winter.” One result was the first WCF conference, in 1997, and its declaration that, in Parke’s words, “condemned policies that subvert ‘the legal and religious status of traditional marriage,’ as well as those that promote contraception and abortion, ‘state welfare systems,’ comprehensive sexual education, nonmarital cohabitation, ‘homosexual unions,’ and single parenting.”
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“The Russians might be the Christian saviors of the world,” said WCF managing director Larry Jacobs in June, 2013. That claim may be overstated, but the WCF-Russia partnership has borne a number of fruits.

Inside Russia, WCF helped pass the notorious Anti-Propaganda Law, banning gays from any public displays of existence, and wrote the ban on gay adoption. In 2012, WCF helped found FamilyPolicy.ru, a network of hard right organizations in Russia led by Alexei Komov, WCF’s Russian point man. He’s the director of the arch-right-wing St. Basil Federation, a key promoter of the “demographic winter” myth, and the drafter of the law that bans adoption by gay people and would strip children away from same-sex families. (How a new class of orphans would help thaw a demographic winter is unclear.) And the anti-propaganda law’s lead sponsor, Yelena Mizulina, frequently appears at WCF events.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/14/the-natural-family-the-latest-weapon-in-the-christian-right-s-new-global-war-on-gays.html
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The New Fascism: Putin's Russia and the American Christian Right team up (Original Post) uhnope Jun 2015 OP
Americans United Big Slim Jun 2015 #1

Big Slim

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1. Americans United
Tue Jun 16, 2015, 05:40 PM
Jun 2015

The group "Americans United for Separation of Church and State" has many excellent articles, and some address linkages between anti-gay pastors in America, and overseas groups.

I highly recommend AU's website.

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