A new openDemocracy investigation reveals that 28 US Christian Right groups, many of them linked to President Trump’s administration, have spent at least $280m overseas since 2007 – while fighting against women’s and LGBTIQ rights.
Some of these groups have, among other activities, backed court cases against women’s and LGBTIQ rights; campaigned against divorce, same-sex adoption and trans rights; and even supported the death penalty for gay people in Uganda.
In the first-ever global exposé of their spending, openDemocracy scrutinised thousands of pages of these groups’ publicly available annual financial filings in the US, where they are registered as non-profit organisations and are required to disclose some information about their income and expenditure.
