Anti-abortion group active in Scotland receives over £1m in US funding

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1. Let’s hound the fuckers out

2. See having spent years on left wing causes – anti war, save the NHS, tenant’s rights – a million quid is so much. Most of what you see from the left outside of the trade unions is done with no budget, all volunteers. Whip rounds to pay for leaflet printing.

   Being conservative is playing politics on easy mode.

3. If this were russian funding they would be in jail

4. With all this trade war nonsense going on we should expel these hatemongers.

5. Genuinely think these people should be made to leave the country. They’re agents of a hostile, foreign state seeking to agitate and promote regressive, fundamentalist politics. Fuck that, and fuck them and their Russia-backed American handlers.

6. If they think they can spit on European trade and values then try and enforce their beliefs here they have another thing coming I’m afraid

7. Same groups have spent tens, if not hundreds of millions on anti-trans groups across the UK and the EU in the last decade. We’re under attack by conservative US ideals and useful fucking idiots bought straight into it and are fighting a war of discrimination for them without even knowing it.

8. The Scottish spokesperson for this group is a woman called Lois McLatchie Miller. Her background raises some serious questions about the US using ‘homegrown’ advocates to infiltrate and poison public debate. She’s been on the BBC and Faux News spouting her nonsense.

   McLatchie Miller is Scottish, but almost everything I’ve been able to uncover about her professional background points to deep, long-standing ties with right-wing American institutions. She currently works as a Senior Legal Communications Officer for ADF International which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

   Before that, she held a series of roles with ADF in Geneva and Vienna (a city often flagged for being a hub of Russian and far-right financial interests). She also interned at the Center for Bioethics and Culture, another US-based anti-surrogacy and anti-abortion group.

   She has also worked with:

   * the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (a Congressional commission)
   * The U.S. Mission to the EU, based in Brussels
   * A group called Care for Europe, working on ‘surrogacy trafficking’ (again, in alignment with US evangelical narratives)

   Basically a who’s who of American right-wing, religiously motivated advocacy. She’s clearly been groomed through legal fellowships and internships to push a very specific agenda. This is someone embedded for years in a highly coordinated and well-funded American Christian network attempting to shape public discourse. Also has the shittest accent I’ve ever heard.

   Edit: Just found she also participated in the Blackstone Legal Fellowship in 2018 which is run by ADF itself. This is explicitly about placing ideologically vetted Christian lawyers into positions of power.

   As ADF co-founder Alan Sears put it:

   “The program’s goal was to put Christian lawyers into ‘positions of influence, thereby impacting the legal culture and keeping the door open for the Gospel.’”

   So that pretty much lays out their game plan. Train, fund, and embed individuals who will reshape public discourse and legal policy to match the ADF’s far-right Christian worldview, and these American cunts are attempting to deploy it here in Scotland.

9. Similar thing happened back in Ireland during the vote to repeal the Eighth Amendment, nasty bunch of nutters. Didn’t do much for them in the end.

10. I love the names of these idiot groups.

    “Alliance Defending Freedom”. My freedom of course. Not fucking yours. You can just do what you are told so I can maintain my self righteous superiority. Fuck you.

    Absolute fucking wallpapers the lot of them.

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