Maria Hildingsson

This year’s World Congress of Families global summit of social conservatives officially gets under way in Budapest on Friday.

We wrote last week about the resurgent anti-LGBT, anti-contraception and anti-reproductive choice Religious Right political movement in Europe and their mutually supportive relationships with their American counterparts – part of an increasingly global culture war targeting LGBT people and reproduct

This is one in a series of posts about the upcoming World Congress of Families gathering in Salt Lake City, Utah. Read our introduction to the World Congress of Families here. Americans have long viewed Europe as a stronghold of progressive social policies.