A major US religious group opposed to LGBT rights has poured tens of millions of dollars of ‘dark money’ into Europe, openDemocracy can reveal. The group, which has ties to the Trump administration, is suing numerous British event venues and city councils that cancelled its events because of its president’s homophobic and Islamophobic comments.
According to new openDemocracy research, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) spent more than $23m in Europe between 2007 and 2014.
BGEA did not answer openDemocracy’s questions about its European spending since 2014, but if it continued to spend at the same rate as before, it would have poured at least $50m into the region by 2020.
