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World Congress of Families

World Congress of Families
Founded1997
Location
Key people
International Secretary, Allan C. Carlson
Websitewww.worldcongress.org

The World Congress of Families (WCF) is a United States coalition that promotes Christian right values internationally.[2] It opposes divorce, birth control, same-sex marriage, pornography, and abortion, while supporting a society built on "the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage".[3][4][5][6] WCF comprises organizations in several countries, and most of its member partners are strongly active campaigners against abortion rights and same-sex marriage.[7] WCF was formed in 1997 and is active worldwide, regularly organizing conventions.[8] Its opposition to gay marriage and abortion has attracted criticism.[9]

In 2014, following its involvement with the 2013 Russian LGBT propaganda law, the Southern Poverty Law Center added WCF to the list of organizations it considers as anti-LGBT groups.[10][11][12][13] WCF has also been influential in Africa. A 2015 report by Human Rights Campaign pointed to WCF's influence on anti-LGBT laws in Nigeria and Uganda,[14] while the director of the NGO Rightify Ghana noted in 2021 that, after the WCF conference in Ghana's capital city of Accra in late 2019, "there was a rush to push legislation" against LGBT in Ghana.[15] The organization has received funding from sanctioned Russian oligarchs.[16][17][18]

  1. ^ "World Congress". Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  2. ^ Buss, Doris; Herman, Didi (2003). Globalizing Family Values: The Christian Right in International Politics. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9781452906447. As quoted in "About World Congress of Families 9". World Congress of Families. Archived from the original on 2016-11-10. Retrieved 2014-08-31. Feminist law professors Doris Buss and Didi Herman wrote, "In terms of international activism, it is through deployment of natural family discourse that the [Christian Right] has had the most success in forging global alliances with other religious movements."
  3. ^ *"American Conservatives Organize Social-Issues Conference in Poland". Fox News/Associated Press. 10 May 2007. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 31 August 2014. The chief organizer is a Rockford, Illinois-based conservative think tank, the Howard Center. Co-sponsors include more than 20 other U.S. groups allied in opposition to abortion, gay marriage and other policies they blame for weakening traditional families in Western Europe.
    See also DAVID CRARY (25 March 2014). "US Conservatives Suspend Plans for Moscow Meeting". Associated Press. A U.S.-based conservative group that supports Russia's efforts to curtail gay rights and abortion is suspending its plans for an international conference in Moscow
  4. ^ "worldcongress.org :: Home". worldcongress.org.
  5. ^ Davidson, Kevin (27 August 2014). "Kevin Andrews books out parliament room for anti-gay marriage conference: Social services minister won't attend 'strengthening the family' conference which has links to controversial Christian group". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 August 2014. The World Congress of Families is the global conservative Christian organisation which was scheduled to hold a controversial regional event in Melbourne this weekend
  6. ^ Kyle Mantyla (8 June 2008). "The World Congress of Families Chooses Its Destination". Right Wing Watch. People for the American Way. Retrieved 2014-08-31.
  7. ^ Di Stefano, Mark (22 August 2014). "World Congress of Families Throws Support Behind Anti-Gay Marriage Summit In Australian Parliament". Buzzfeed. Retrieved 29 August 2014.[unreliable source?]
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference lgbtq was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ See, for example, this list of articles from Catholics for Choice: "Reports on Meetings Held by the World Congress of Families". CatholicsforChoice.org. Catholics for Choice. Archived from the original on 3 September 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014. and this one from RH Reality Check, which dates back to 2007: "World Congress of Families". RHRealityCheck.org. RH Reality Check. Retrieved 30 August 2014. Similarly, SIECUS has been following WFC since at least 2004: "The Third World Congress of Families Convenes in Mexico". siecus.org. Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States. Archived from the original on 4 September 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
  10. ^ "World Congress of Families Suspends Russia Conference". splcenter.org. Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  11. ^ "SPLC Adds Seven New Organizations To Anti-Gay Hate Group List22". Truth Wins Out. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  12. ^ Michaelson, Jay (19 July 2014). "The Kremlin's Favorite Anti-Gay Hate Group is Coming to Utah". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
  13. ^ "World Congress of Families Suspends Russia Conference". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  14. ^ "Exposed: The World Congress of Families: An American Organization Exporting Hate" (PDF). Human Rights Campaign. June 2015. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
  15. ^ McKenzie, David; Princewill, Nimi (8 October 2021). "How a US group with links to the far-right may have influenced a crackdown on Ghana's LGBTQ community". CNN. Retrieved 2021-10-08.
  16. ^ "These prominent Americans are speaking at far-right Russia conference linked to sanctioned oligarchs". Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  17. ^ Norris, Sian (2 March 2022). "Millions of Russian Roubles Funded Far-Right Discord in Europe". Byline Times. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  18. ^ Roonemaa, Holger; Laine, Martin; Weiss, Michael (24 March 2022). "Exclusive: Russia Backs Europe's Far Right". New Lines Magazine. Retrieved 24 March 2022. The WCF is sponsored by Malofeev and Vladimir Yakunin, yet another U.S.-sanctioned Russian oligarch.

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