How American religious conservatives fought LGBT rights in Ukraine

[quote]oh, dear.

[quote]… Pavlo Unguryan, a member of the Ukrainian parliament representing the Motherland Bloc (2008-2012) and then the People’s Front Party (2014-2019). Unguryan co-authored one of several bills to support [a homosexual propaganda] ban and backed related proposals.

[quote]Pavlo Unguryan is something of a fixture at National Prayer Breakfasts at Washington DC and runs a Ukrainian version of the event. In a December 2019 interview, Unguryan said that he was first invited to the US National Prayer Breakfast in the USA under [bold]President George W Bush[/bold].

[quote]He has met American politicians known for their evangelical stances, such as Vice President [bold]Mike Pence[/bold], former Secretary of Energy [bold]Rick Perry[/bold], and US Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom [bold]Sam Brownback[/bold] whose confirmation in 2018 drew criticism from LGBT rights groups. Unguryan has also met [bold]Bob McEwen, leader of the Republican-aligned conservative Council for National Policy (CNP)[/bold], boasting in a 2019 interview of attending a CNP meeting in the USA and inviting McEwen and Republican Congressman [bold]Tim Walberg[/bold] to his own Prayer Breakfast in Ukraine.

[quote]Unguryan continues to break bread with new friends in high places: this year, he appeared at the 2020 National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, and appears in photos from the event alongside US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and HUD Secretary Ben Carson.

[bold]The Council for National Policy (CNP)[/bold]

CNP's membership is comprised of leaders in the family values, national defense and decency movements woven by members of the Dead Billionaires Club like the Adolph Coors Foundation, the Koch brothers, Richard DeVos, Richard Scaife and other billionaires and foundations who have invested heavily in developing a complex web of far-Right groups, think-tanks and politicians over the last forty years [bold]to return the United States to its pre Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 19th century capitalist roots[/bold]

Center for National Policy's campaigns use scare tactics on issues like abortion and LGBTQ rights to politically engage conservative Christians. A 2019 piece by Shadow Network author Anne Nelson described Vice President Mike Pence's membership in CNP as well as the group's strategy to identify and turnout "some 17 million politically unengaged evangelicals, many concentrated in swing states" by telling them falsehoods such as "Democrats will 'execute babies on the day of their birth'" and that "schoolchildren face a mortal danger of sexual assault by transgender people using public restrooms."

[bold]CNP members met for a three-day retreat during Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation process.[/bold] As described by The Intercept, "The agenda for the event featured a veritable who’s who of Christian conservatives, including Ginni Thomas, the spouse of Justice Clarence Thomas; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley; former Sen. Jim DeMint, the former president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank; pollster Frank Luntz; and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio..." Other attendees included T. Cullen Davis, Herman Cain, Bob McEwen, representatives from Family Research Council, and presenters from Faith and Freedom Coalition.

CNP's founding:

"In 1981, Weyrich, Viguerie, LaHaye, Republican functionary Morton Blackwell, anti-feminist lawyer Phyllis Schlafly, oil scion Nelson Bunker Hunt, beer magnate Joseph Coors, and some 50 other conservatives began meeting every Wednesday morning in Viguerie’s handsome Virginia home. It was there that they founded the Council for National Policy.

The CNP was deliberately modeled after the Council on Foreign Relations, a prestigious nonprofit think tank with thousands of prominent members and deep connections to America’s foreign policy elite. Similarly, the CNP focused early on international affairs, presenting Oliver North with a special award “for national defense” and inviting far-right Salvadoran death squad leader Roberto D’Aubuisson to give a talk. It also sought tax-exempt status, citing the group’s similarity to the CFR. And though membership in the CNP was likewise highly exclusive and by invitation only, Nelson wryly notes that its 1982 executive committee included Richard Shoff, 'former state secretary of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan.'

CNP Action, Inc.

According to CNP's website, […] “Founded in 1987, CNP Action, Inc. serves as an advocate for conservative principles such as limited government, free economic enterprise, traditional values and a strong national defense. It promotes issues or specific pieces of legislation through regular Action Sessions and publications." Beginning in April 2020, this organization began involved with strategies to reopen U.S. states despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[25][26]

[bold]CNP Action Organized "Pro-Trump" Doctors To Legitimate Reopening Efforts[/bold]

Associated Press reported on a May 2020 conference call between CNP Action and a senior staffer for Trump's reelection campaign, originally obtained by Center for Media and Democracy. In the leaked meeting, these operatives discussed "recruiting 'extremely pro-Trump' doctors to go on television to prescribe reviving the U.S. economy as quickly as possible" despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.[25] When asked about these efforts by AP, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh asserted he took no issue with contradicting the government's infectious disease experts. Murtaugh explained, "Our job at the campaign is to reflect President Trump’s point of view... We are his campaign. There is no difference between us and him."[25]

[bold]CNP Action Helped Coordinate COVID-19 Lockdown Protests[/bold]

In April 2020, CNP Action "hosted weekly conference calls to coordinate coronavirus response tactics", working together with organizations including FreedomWorks, Open the States, ReOpen PA, The Save Our Country Task Force, and Tea Party Patriots.[26] The stated goal of Tea Party Patriots was to "share the stories of people who have been affected by the lockdowns, to show that we must be concerned with both sides of this crisis."

As of 2020, Lisa Nelson, the CEO of ALEC, was a CNP member.

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Invited to the Ukraine Prayer Breakfast, Tim Walberg (R-MI)

• Signed Texas amicus brief (attempt in Supreme Court to delay the Electoral College vote and entirely prevent four states (Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan) from casting their votes for Joe Biden).

• Objected to certification of electoral college votes in one or more states

• Made false and/or irresponsible public statements against democratic system

• Voted against impeachment or conviction of Donald Trump for inciting an insurrection

• Voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack

• Voted against holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress

Walberg’s trip to the Ukrainian Prayer Breakfast

At least four Republican members of Congress have traveled to eastern Europe and bolstered proponents there of policies that may help achieve Russia’s goal that those nations not join the European Union. The trips were paid for by an American group that allegedly helped Russian agents meet and influence American politicians, and by an affiliated Ukrainian group of Christian politicians, according to federal travel disclosure forms.

In an affidavit this week, the FBI said that Russia “seeks to create wedges” to achieve political goals, including to “counter efforts to bring Ukraine and other former Soviet states into European institutions.” Membership in the E.U. requires nations to recognize relatively liberal rights for LGBTQ people and same-sex couples.

Russian officials reportedly have sought to foster anti-gay sentiment in potential E.U. members, to impede the E.U.’s growth. Buzzfeed reported in 2013, for instance, that a Duma committee chair said if Ukraine allied with the E.U., “pride parades will be held instead of Victory Day parades” in Kiev. [bold]Russian-leaning lawmakers in Ukraine have sponsored anti-gay legislation there.

Rick Perry? Fuck that closet queen

Yes, CHRISTIANs are the ones spreading gay hatred all over the world