United Families International

 
  Nonprofit organization founded in 1978 by Susan Roylance. UFI works on an international scale to influence public policy toward "maintaining and strengthening the family". UFI has NGO status with ECOSOC and works to spread their opinion to United Nations (UN) ambassadors and delegates on family related issues. UFI also operates a website, DefendMarriage.org. They are listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as an anti-gay hate group but are supported by and in agreement with significant portions of the Christian conservative coalition.

United Families International (UFI)

 
"Based in Gilbert, Arizona, United Families International has its roots in two separate organizations founded in 1978 by longtime activists Susan Roylance , (currently on the board of World Congress of Families) and Jan Clark. By 1983 the two organizations merged to become United Families of America. The name changed in 1995 as the organization expanded its focus outside the United States to combat perceived threats to the “natural family"" (“fundamental social unit of society,” describes a family unit as one that is centered on “the voluntary union of a man and a woman in a lifelong covenant of marriage.”)
 
Those threats, according to UFI, include pornography, “explicit” sex education programs (UFI promotes “abstinence only”), and “homosexual activism.” UFI also opposes abortion and feminism (it fears feminism eliminates gender), and worked against the ratification of the Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women in 2008. UFI is extremely active at the United Nations, where it holds consultative status with the Economic and Social Counsel. It has sent teams to major UN conferences and has represented itself around the world, where it claims it is “working to educate delegates from many countries on the issues affecting families.”
 
On its website, UFI provides “educational materials,” like its 35-page report on sexual orientation that claims differing sexual orientations are “developmental disorders” that can be “prevented or successfully treated.” The report provides a litany of damaging falsehoods about homosexuality, including such claims as “pedophilia is widespread among the homosexual community;” that gay people are a danger to children and should not be allowed to adopt; that gay people experience “high rates of promiscuity;” and that homosexuality is “destructive” to society."
 

Oct. 21, 2015

Susan Roylance: UFI Says Same-Sex Marriage Is Not Inevitable
Aug. 29, 2013
Andy Biggs, Other Politicos Tied To Gilbert Religious Group Labeled As Anti-Gay "Hate Group" By Southern Poverty Law Center
"United Families International is one of 26 "active anti-gay groups" listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center, alongside Faithful Word Baptist Church -- the Tempe church with the pastor who says "the government should put [homosexuals] to death" -- and Fred Phelps' world-famous Westboro Baptist Church."
Mar. 9, 2012
Newly Designated Anti-Gay Hate Groups Earned That Distinction
Mar. 9, 2012

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