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Why is the US government meeting LGBT ‘hate groups’ and dangling money in front of them?

Anti-abortion and anti-LGBT ‘extremists’ attended a high-level summit on religious freedom this week, where government officials explained how to access US funding

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The ministerial conference on advancing religious freedom | Claire Provost

Prominent Christian conservatives and opponents of abortion and same-sex marriage – including several designated by the Southern Law Poverty Center as anti-LGBT “hate groups” – were among the participants at a high-level US government meeting on ‘religious freedom’ in Washington DC this week. The three-day event, hosted by secretary of state Mike Pompeo, has the stated aim to identify “concrete ways to combat religious persecution and discrimination”.