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The Guardian reports: More than 15,000 Americans were losing their jobs each day in June 2009, as the US struggled to climb out of a painful recession following its worst financial crisis in decades. But Jay Sekulow, who is now an attorney to Donald Trump, had a private jet to finance. His law firm was expecting a $3m payday. And …

To mark today’s International Day Against Homophobia, Human Rights Watch has posted its top four global villains in the battle for LGBT rights. Among those named is Pat Robertson’s ACLJ, which has been exporting anti-gay hate across the globe. The American Center for Law and Justice; President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia; Vadym Kolesnichenko, a member of Ukraine’s parliament; and the …

Pat Robertson’s “legal” group, the American Center for Law & Justice, has long extended its scaly tentacles into other nations such as Russia and Kenya, where they work to inflame anti-gay sentiments.  Now the ACLJ has set up an office in Brazil.  Buzzfeed reports: The head of the new Brazil office, Filipe Coelho, is a scion of one of Brazil’s …

Jay Sekulow, who convinced the Supreme Court that Jews For Jesus had the right to harass people at airports, is the head of Pat Robertson’s anti-gay American Center for Law & Justice. And surprise surprise, that gig is earning him tens of millions from tax-exempt “charities.” Since 1998, the two charities have paid out more than $33 million to members …

The anti-gay American Center For Law & Justice has opened a branch in Kenya, another ominous indication of the Christian right’s continuing push to demonize gays in Africa. From their site: The Christian response to all that is happening [in Kenya] has been ad hoc and reactionary. This has seen several laws passed that eroded the value system that we …