Fine-tuned in Africa and elsewhere, arguments used to attack rights overseas have been re-imported to the US as the religious right warns again that the left and gay people are “grooming seven-year-olds” and “promoting pedophilia.' MsReads via guardian
“Once they’re all there together they exchange ideas and they’re able to see ‘Well, this worked well in this country, so I can take and adopt it, and it should work in my country’s context,’” Datta said.
“There can be different versions in different countries, but it means the same thing, and it works very well in other languages,” Datta said. The term has functioned as a rallying cry in Europe around which the political and legal infrastructure sprouted with the assistance of US expertise and funding.Photograph: Isaac Kasamani/AFP/Getty Images
The ADF effectively made that argument in a recent case before the US supreme court, which ruled on 30 June that a conservative website designer could refuse service to a gay couple despite a Colorado state law that forbids discrimination against LGBTQ+ people. In reality, many western religious leaders have profited from business in Africa and are embedded with countries’ leaders, which is a form of colonialism, said Victor Mukasa, a transgender person with Sexual Minorities Uganda who now lives in the US.
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