Anonymous Submission to Jersey Counter-Info
Princeton New Jersey based conservative think tank the Witherspoon Institute has been revealed to have deep connections to far right actors on an international scale.
The Witherspoon Institute often flies under the radar and does not make domestic media or international news headlines. They have been comfortably slinging propaganda and funding the far right from their Princeton brownstone on Stockton Street for years. Recently, however, their ties to international governments and the international Christian far right has been revealed.
Whitherspoon Institute, among other organizations, has been funding far right actors in Singapore, specifically particular politicians and judges, to enact far right policies with the goal of criminalizing queer and trans people there.
These politicians and judges who are affiliated with, or at the very least sympathetic to, the Christian far right have been seeking to institutionalize transgender people “until they cease to be transgender” and criminalize “repeat offenders”, sentencing them to “preventative detention”. This effectively means that the Christian far right in Singapore wishes to render being trans a criminal offense that is punishable by the law.
Queer activist Carissa Cheow details the Witherspoon Institute’s- along side associated US based “marriage movement” CanaVox and several other organizations and churches- involvement in two publicly released letters to state officials: 1. Cheow’s letter to the Attorney General’s Chambers; and 2. Cheow’s letter to the President of Singapore.
A light needs to be shined on Whitherspoon Institute’s actions and they need to be held accountable.