This week's gathering of anti-gay,
anti-abortion rights activists in Moscow ended with an urgent appeal
to the world to adopt more Russian-style “homosexual propaganda”
bans.
According to Right
Wing Watch, American activists who attended the event include
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage
(NOM) and representatives from the Catholic Family and Human Rights
Institute, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), Personhood USA
and Family Watch International.
The forum was originally being
organized by the Illinois-based World Congress of Families, though
the group officially “suspended” its involvement after Russia
invaded Ukraine.
In their “urgent appeal,” delegates
express their “profound concern because certain countries are
pursing tenacious policies and an unprecedented propaganda campaign,
all of which is leading to the ultimate destruction of the Natural
Family - an institution that in a civilized society is the
foundation of order, state’s prosperity and social peace” and vow
to “uphold the interests of children and to work for the adoption
of legislative bans on all types of propaganda concerning homosexual
relationships in the environment of children and juveniles” and to
support research on “the negative social and psychological effects
of raising children in same-gender couples.”
It was not clear whether American
representatives signed onto the resolution.