18 Anti-Gay Groups and Their Propaganda | Southern Poverty Law Center

Contents:

• DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS
• 18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA
• GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

DON'T LET THAT RABOW LOGO FOOL YOU: THE 9 CORPORATNS DONATED MILLNS TO ANTI-GAY POLICIANS

The northern Italian cy of Padua has started removg the nam of non-blogil gay mothers om their children’s birth certifit unr new legislatn passed by the “tradnal fay-first” ernment of Prime Mister Grgia Meloni. “There is no discrimatn agast children, ” Fay Mister Eugenia Roccella told parliament when she troduced the bill June, explag that the children of gay upl would have accs to school and medil servic jt like those who only have one livg parent. Durg the Ethics & Relig Liberty Commissn’s annual natnal nference 2014, ADF attorney Erik Stanley peddled the myth that Matthew Shepard's btal anti-gay murr was fabrited orr to advance the “homosexual agenda.

ADF founr Alan Sears lerally wrote the book on the alleged “homosexual agenda” -- his 2003 book The Homosexual Agenda: Exposg the Prcipal Threat to Relig Freedom Today pared the gay “propaganda” movement to what “Hler did so masterfully Nazi Germany, to get the Amerin public on their si. ” In 2005, ADF lnched a “Day of Tth” mpaign to bat the “promotn of the homosexual agenda” schools to unter the ongog “Day of Silence” anized by LGBTQ advot, which stunts rema silent as a prott and to help spread awarens about the effects of anti-LGBT bullyg.

Thoands of Hungarians have braved srchg heat for the annual Pri march Budapt, prottg agast ernment ntrols over public displays by the LGBT pots:Hungary's ernment banned the "display and promotn of homosexualy" among those unr 18A spokperson for the pri march said the number of people attendg doubled sce the banThe US ambassador and many other diplomats participated the marchPrime Mister Viktor Orban's ernment promot a Christian-nservative agenda and 2021 banned the "display and promotn of homosexualy" among those unr 18 spe strong cricism om rights groups and the European Unn. (Rters: Bernatt Szabo)Neher anisers nor the ernment gave a number for the marchers, though wns timated about 10, 000 people ads for the Pri para were only allowed to be aired late at night, wh most channels not takg the risk at all, Hungarian news se this week, Hungary's send-largt bookseller received a rerd fe for sellg a book that picts homosexualy whout closed wrappg.

18 ANTI-GAY GROUPS AND THEIR PROPAGANDA

The urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth. Led by MP Gee Peter Kaluma, a member of opposn polician Raila Odga's Orange Democratic Movement, the proposed bill would further crimalise same-sex acts wh penalti rangg om a suggted mimum of ten years prison to the ath penalty for "aggravated homosexualy", fed as "engagg homosexual acts wh a mor or disabled person and transmtg a termal disease through sexual means.

In Ghana, lawmakers are the procs of amendg the untry's own anti-LGBTQ legislatn wh proposns of a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. And crimalizatn abroad; has fend state-sanctned sterilizatn of trans people abroad; has ntend that LGBTQ+ people are more likely to engage pedophilia; and claims that a “homosexual agenda” will stroy Christiany and society.

GROUPS OPPOSED TO GAY RIGHTS RAKE LNS AS STAT BATE ANTI-LGBTQ BILLS

Among the “tradnal moral valu” the anizatn claims to promote are falsehoods about AIDS as a “gay plague, ” furtherg the myth that people who are gay were rponsible for the Holot, that the ernment is promotg LGBTQ behavr, and that pro-LGBTQ anizatns are anti-Christian hate groups. He has pared homosexualy to addictn, and has falsely asserted not only that there is “a disproportnate cince of pedophilia” among gay men, but also that a proposed equaly bill California was tend to actively promote an LGBTQ “liftyle” to children. Per the Courage webse, the group seeks to “ensure that no one will have to face the problems of homosexualy alone, ” exhortg s members to forego lovg relatnships favor of chasty, service, and equent mass attendance.

Defend the Fay: Defend the Fay is billed as “a service” of Abidg Tth Mistry, head by pastor Stt Lively (-thor of The Pk Swastika, a book that sists that the Holot was perpetrated by people who were gay). The group seeks to “promote and fend the Biblil view of marriage and fay” by spreadg falsehoods about LGBTQ “recment” efforts and a nebulo LGBTQ “agenda, ” as well as providg a theologil gloss for anti-gay legislatn proposed the Uned Stat, Uganda, and elsewhere. Fay Rearch Instute: Found 1987 by psychologist Pl Cameron, the Fay Rearch Instute (FRI) provis “rearch” that equat homosexualy wh rape, pedophilia, and a host of other lser crimal behavrs to anti-gay groups.

The nservative Christian group still advot for reparative therapy, still se homosexualy as a moral evil, and still lobbi hard to brg a fundamentalist viewpot to the polil procs and school boards alike. Natnal Organizatn for Marriage: NOM was formed 2007 by Maggie Gallagher (a nservative lumnist) and Robert Gee (a polics profsor at Prceton Universy and -thor of the “Manhattan Declaratn”)to advote agast gay marriage. More recently, the anizatn has tried to appear more morate, emphasizg that “Gays and Lbians have a right to live as they choose, ” while hasteng to add that “they don’t have the right to refe marriage for all of .