Why C-FAM, the Catholic Fundamentalists You’ve Never Heard Of, Just Cozied Up to Iran

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Citing an international plot to defeat "truth and goodness," a far-right consortium together with Muslim theocracies, Russia, and China is urging the United Nations not to investigate anti-LGBT violence.

07.03.16 12:01 AM ET
Jay Michaelson

You’d think, in the wake of the Orlando massacre, anti-gay gang violence in Russia, and the gruesome murder of (alleged) gays by ISIS, that having a UN “special rapporteur” investigate discrimination against LGBT people would be a pretty reasonable thing to do.

But last week’s contentious vote to create such a position, which narrowly passed the UN Human Rights Council, led to fierce opposition, explosive rhetoric, and plenty of opportunism.

One of the ultraconservative organizations trafficking in all three is known as C-FAM, the far-right-wing Center for Family & Human Rights—formerly known as the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute—which focuses on international anti-LGBT advocacy. In a fundraising pitch (natch) that went viral last week, C-FAM called the possibility of investigating discrimination a “major catastrophe” because “sexual revolutionaries are about to defeat the forces of truth and goodness.”

Defeat the forces of truth and goodness! Let me add that to my gay agenda.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/03/why-c-fam-the-catholic-fundamentalists-you-ve-never-heard-of-just-cozied-up-to-iran.html

https://c-fam.org/

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1. Family and Human Rights

An ill-suited name if I've heard one

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2. A nasty petulant group. They're even pissed off over UN stamps.

A Reuters UN correspondent who also spoke at the unveiling asked, “Who would have thought we could get so excited about stamps in the digital age?” She encouraged all in attendance to purchase stamps and “spread the message.”

The stamps capture the efforts of the “Free and Equal Campaign” a unilateral initiative of the UN Secretary General’s human rights bureaucracy that promotes a right to engage in sodomy, same-sex marriage, homosexual adoption, and other LGBT rights.

https://c-fam.org/friday_fax/un-stamps-celebrate-homosexuality-gay-parenting-transexualism/