Utah governor to speak at anti-gay, anti-contraception group's event

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Right Wing Watch story here

The World Congress of Families sent out a press release today announcing that Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and Attorney General Sean Reyes will both address the group’s upcoming convention in Salt Lake City.

The presence of two of Utah’s top elected officials lends legitimacy to the gathering of opponents of reproductive rights and LGBT equality from around the world. Among the speakers are the National Organization for Marriage’s Brian Brown, Peter Sprigg and Pat Fagan of the Family Research Council, Sharon Slater of Family Watch International and Mark Regnerus, whose faulty research on gay parents has been used to justify anti-LGBT discrimination around the world.

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1. I kinda wish this was just a stone's throw away

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2. GOP is a terrorist organization dedicated to the annihilation of all life on the planet.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Hey,it's Utah.

The State is a theocracy and until that changes,well what you see and hear are for real.

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4. This week on DU it is considered great to be anti gay, anti contraception and involved in politics

so posting this as if that stuff is bad might be controversial. Many of the groups present at this even were invited to join Francis at the Vatican's anti marriage equality conference in Rome last year.

Vatican Strengthens Ties with Evangelicals and Mormons Against Gay Marriage
This week the Vatican hosted a three-day, international, interreligious colloquium called Humanum, “The Complementarity of Man and Woman: An International Colloquium.” Its goal was to “propose anew the beauty of the relationship between the man and the woman.” Speakers came from nearly two dozen countries and a variety of religious traditions, including Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and Taoists.

The presence of American evangelicals and the LDS Church was particularly notable. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church, and Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, each gave speeches, and representatives from the Heritage Foundation and the Family Research Council in Washington attended. President Henry Eyring of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ first presidency spoke and Elder Tom Perry of the LDS’s Quorum of the Twelve also joined. In the United States, this trio of faiths has worked together to stand against the government’s Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate, but it was the first time they were coming together at the Vatican to talk about marriage."
http://time.com/3597245/vatican-evangelicals-mormons-gay-marriage/


And yet Francis is a big hit on DU. So people might object to criticism of anti gay and anti choice views while his super dooper holy pants in in country.