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On the surface, many Christian nationalist groups are talking tough about Putin... The irony is, at the same time these organizations are assailing Putin, they’re being less than forthright about their ongoing associations with his corrupt and dangerous regime.

The fact is, many U.S. Christian nationalist organizations have ties to Russia through an entity called the World Congress of Families (WCF), an international nonprofit founded in 1997 by Allan Carlson...

WCF was founded after Carlson met in 1995 with Russian scholars who were convinced that birth control, homosexuality and feminism were threatening families, a view often peddled by religious extremists in America.

In 2015, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), an LGBTQ-rights organization, produced a major report on WCF and its ties to American Religious Right groups. The report notes that WCF has partnered with “some of the largest and most influential conservative groups in America and in the West – including Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, American Family Association, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America and National Right to Life Committee.”

The HRC report singled out WCF’s close relationship with Putin, the Russian government and clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church...“Its staff members and representatives have established close links with Russian President Vladimir Putin and anti-LGBT extremists in Africa,”...

At least two U.S. Religious Right organizations – the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and Americans United for Life, an anti-abortion group – participated in WCF’s 2019 conference in Verona, Italy. Indeed, Brian Brown, president of NOM, also serves as president of the International Organization for the Family, the entity that sponsors WCF.

WCF staff members, the report noted, have repeatedly praised Putin.

In 2017, writer Casey Michel penned a piece for Politico explaining how under Putin, Russia began “forging a new role for itself at the helm of the global Christian right.”...
“[A]merican fundamentalists bent on unwinding minority protections in the U.S. have increasingly leaned on Russia for support – and for a model they’d bring to bear back home,..."

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