You may have heard a Human Rights Campaign (HRC) spokesman claim on Utah radio that Sutherland Institute will be bringing 3,000 “extremists” and “very dangerous” people to Utah to attend the ninth World Congress of Families (WCF) next year.
That struck us as an odd and rather irrational claim, given who has attended and spoken at WCF: presidents of nations, religious leaders and people of faith from most major religious denominations, widely published scholars and researchers, high-level government officials, and extraordinary people engaged in helping the less fortunate around the world. While this description evidently leads the HRC to see “extremists,” it reminds us of the majority of mainstream Utah.
In any case, we thought it would be useful to provide a brief list of some past WCF attendees, supporters and speakers. Then you can decide whether the WCF will be a gathering of “extremists” and “very dangerous” people, or simply will draw extraordinary people of faith and secular accomplishment who are similar in belief and thinking to the majority of Utahns.
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Helan |
Alvare |
Law Professor, George Mason University; formerly in the Office of General Counsel for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops |
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The Hon. John |
Anderson |
Former Deputy Prime Minister in the Federal Parliament of Australia |
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The Hon. Kevin |
Andrews |
Australia Minister for Social Services |
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Cardinal Ennio |
Antonelli |
President of the Pontifical Council for Family (Holy See), Roman Catholic Church |
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Cardinal Raymond Leo |
Burke |
Cardinal Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura |
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Dr. Allan |
Carlson |
Appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the National Commission on Children |
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Sheri |
Dew |
Former Relief Society General President, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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Patrick |
Fagan, Ph.D. |
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Family and Community Policy, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services under Pres. George H.W. Bush |
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Martha |
Fox |
Former first lady of Mexico |
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Elder Bruce C. |
Hafen, J.D. |
Emeritus, First Quorum of the Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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George Williford Boyce |
Haley |
Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of the Gambia |
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Ian |
Harper |
Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne |
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Farooq |
Hassan, J.D., Ph.D. |
Professor of Law, Harvard University |
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Thomas |
Holman, Ph.D. |
Professor of Marriage, Family, and Human Development, Brigham Young University |
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Wade |
Horn, Ph.D. |
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush |
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President Lech |
Kaczynski |
Former President of Poland |
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Rabbi Binyomin |
Jacobs |
Chief Rabbi of the Inter-Provincial Rabbinate in Holland |
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Dr. Alveda |
King |
Niece of Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Patriarch |
Kirill |
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Russian Orthodox Church |
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Elder Erich |
Kopischke |
First Quorum of the Seventy, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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Joel |
Kotkin |
Distinguished Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University |
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Richard |
Land, D.Phil. |
Former president of the Southern Baptist Convention |
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Mary Anne |
Layden, Ph.D. |
Center for Cognitive Therapy, University of Pennsylvania |
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Phillip |
Longman, Ph.D. |
Former Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University |
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Christine Vollmer de |
Marcellus |
Member, Pontifical Council for the Family and Pontifical Academy for Life |
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Cardinal Renato |
Martino |
Italian Cardinal Deacon and president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace |
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John |
Mueller |
The Lehrman Institute Fellow in Economics at the Ethics and Public Policy Center |
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Margaret |
Nadauld |
Former president of the Young Womens Association, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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Elder Russell M. |
Nelson |
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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Wendy |
Nelson |
Former professor of Marriage and Family Therapy, Brigham Young University |
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Lloyd D. |
Newell |
Host of the Mormon Tabernacle Choirs Music & the Spoken Word |
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Elder Dallin H. |
Oaks |
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Honorary Member, Board of Directors of the World Congress of Families |
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Patrick |
Parkinson |
Professor of Law, University of Sydney, Australia; President of the International Society of Family Law |
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Paige |
Patterson |
8th President of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary |
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Cardinal George |
Pell |
Australian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church |
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D. Juan Antonio Reig |
Pla |
Bishop of Alcala de Henares (called by Pope Benedict XVI), Roman Catholic Church |
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David |
Prentice, Ph.D. |
Professor of Life Sciences, Indiana State University |
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Grover Joseph |
Rees |
Former U.S. Ambassador to East Timor; former Chief Justice of the High Court of American Samoa |
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Andr |
Rouvoet |
Former Dutch Deputy Prime Minister |
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Madame Jehan |
Sadat |
Widow of Anwar Sadat |
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Ellen |
Saurbrey |
Former US Ambassador, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women |
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Alan |
Sears |
Former federal prosecutor under President Ronald Reagan; President and CEO of Alliance Defense Fund |
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Mary Ellen |
Smoot |
Former President of the Relief Society, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
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Senator Francisco |
Tatad |
Former Majority Leader for the Philippines Senate |
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Cardinal Alfonso Lopez |
Trujillo |
Cardinal Bishop and former President of the Pontifical Council for the Family (Holy See), Roman Catholic Church |
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Lynn |
Wardle, J.D. |
Professor of Law, Brigham Young University |
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Brad |
Wilcox, Ph.D. |
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia |
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