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Revealed: US anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ dramatically increases UK spending

Big-spending Christian Right ‘legal army’, whose influence has soared in America under Trump, is now linked to campaigns against assisted dying in the UK

By Claire Provost and Peter Geoghegan

Revealed: US anti-LGBT ‘hate group’ dramatically increases UK spending — Protesters on both sides of the assisted dying debate, outside the Houses of Parliament in London | Jonathan Brady/PA Archive/PA Images. All rights reserved

Published: March 20, 2019, 4:03 pm

An American anti-LGBT “hate group” with close ties to the Trump administration has spent more than £410,000 in the UK since 2017, openDemocracy can reveal.

ADF International – which opposes abortion rights and same-sex marriage equality – is also connected to a small number of British campaigners behind supposedly ‘grassroots’ movements against assisted dying, new research has found.

The global wing of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) has a multi-million dollar budget, but does not disclose who its funders are. It opened an office in London two years ago and is now spending hundreds of thousands in the UK.

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