The US Christian right has been busy. Over the last few months they’ve been busy in America pushing for extreme restrictions on women’s access to safe, legal abortion. Ahead of the European parliament elections last month, they were busy on this side of the Atlantic too – in March, an ultra-conservative jamboree in Verona, Italy, brought US religious and European far right activists together over juice and cookies.
LifeSiteNews – which calls itself “the #1 most-read pro-life website” – is a part of the infrastructure of this international backlash against women’s and LGBTIQ rights. It publishes articles, videos (on why, for example contraception is 'intrinsically bad'), and the views of conservative Catholic leaders. It also has its own petition platform that’s hosted dozens of drives for signatures over the last year.
We perused this petition platform so you don’t have to (you’re welcome); it offers a window into some of the targets of this backlash. Recently they’ve included the proposed ‘Equality Act’ in the US which would extend civil rights protections to LGBT people; Pope Francis, presented as a radical propagating heresies and the Vatican as captured by ‘homosexual networks’; and Disney, and LGBT superheroes.
