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Representatives of the World Congress of Families held a news conference at the National Press Club on Wednesday to talk about their 2014 summit, which will be held in Moscow in September. The WCF and the Religious Right groups it partners with are ardent promoters of anti-gay legislation worldwide, and they love Russia's anti-gay President Vladimir Putin.
Earlier this week the WCF announced that the opening session would be held in the Congress Hall of the Kremlin Palace, that a special parliamentary session will also be held in the Russian Duma and a special scientific forum at St Petersburg State University. At today's press conference it was announced that the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church is expected to address the gathering.
WCF Managing Director Larry Jacobs, C-FAMs Austin Ruse, Concerned Women for Americas Janice Shaw Crouse, and Alexey Komov, WCFs man in Russia, were delighted about anti-gay legislation that has passed in Moscow and were defensive about western criticism of Putins regime.
Asked about bipartisan criticism of the increasingly anti-democratic nature of Putins rule, Ruse suggested that some people are stuck in cold war amber and are consumed by a visceral hatred of all things Russian. He energetically supported Russias anti-gay propaganda law, saying there is no human right to tell the gay narrative to schoolchildren. And he dismissed concerns about Putins moves against freedom of the press, saying Russians had no historical memory of that kind of freedom.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/world-congress-families-criticism-putin-liberal-media-hysteria
Our fundamentalist right does love them some Vladimir.
lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)Putin has gangs of thugs roaming the streets looking for people who "act Gay" and they beat them up while the police stand by and look the other way.
Fellow Travelers indeed ( the WCF ).
We should have Congress hold hearings on these anti American groups and their ties to authoritarian foreign regimes.
treestar
(82,383 posts)the "gay narrative" would be a first amendment right to discuss.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)pus a specific definition of the families of the world. A visit to their site is eye opening because they are not only targetting the LGBT community but women and feminism as well.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)Or does that mean Palin is part of liberal media hysteria????
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Wonder how her 'base' takes that? Wonder if she'll issue an apology to Putin?