The Intercontinental Network of Purity and Power: An Analysis of Christian Nationalist, Far-Right, and Anti-Sexploitation Alliances and Their Threat to Global Stability

by Gemini 2.5 Pro, Deep Research. Warning! LLMs may hallucinate!

Executive Summary

This report presents a comprehensive analysis of a deeply integrated, transnational network of organizations operating under the guise of moral crusades, such as anti-sexual exploitation and child safety, to advance a far-right, Christian nationalist political agenda. The investigation corroborates and expands upon initial intelligence, revealing a multi-layered influence operation that spans from the United Kingdom and Australia to the United States and beyond, with significant international collaborations designed to undermine liberal democratic norms and the international human rights framework.

The network's activities originate with grassroots-style campaigns led by groups like CEASE UK, Australia's Collective Shout, and the US-based National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and Exodus Cry. These organizations have pioneered a tactic of "financial de-platforming," leveraging moral panics to pressure essential service providers, such as payment processors Visa and Mastercard, into acting as extra-legal censors of legal adult content. This demonstrates a sophisticated strategy to achieve policy goals through economic coercion, bypassing democratic and judicial processes.

The ideological core of this network is rooted in a specific, hardline variant of Charismatic Christianity, with key organizations like Exodus Cry emerging from institutions such as the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC). This theological foundation is built upon a "conversion" ideology, historically associated with the "ex-gay" movement, which seeks not coexistence with but the elimination of competing worldviews from the public square. This absolutist doctrine fuels their campaigns against secular sexuality, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive freedom.

This grassroots and theological energy is professionalized and weaponized by an elite vanguard of legal and political powerhouses, most notably the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and The Heritage Foundation. These organizations, both central players in the American conservative movement, provide the legal muscle, policy frameworks, and political connections that translate moral crusades into concrete political power.

The culmination of this network's efforts is Project 2025, a 900-page playbook authored by The Heritage Foundation and supported by over 100 coalition partners, including the ADF, NCOSE, and the Family Research Council (FRC). Project 2025 serves as a detailed blueprint for a potential second Trump administration to dismantle the administrative state, concentrate executive power, and implement a sweeping Christian nationalist agenda. Analysis of the project's policy proposals reveals a functional, if not always explicit, alignment with white nationalist objectives, aiming to systematically dismantle federal mechanisms for racial equity under the guise of "colorblind" and "merit-based" governance.

The network's financial underpinnings are robust, drawing from established conservative oligarchs like the Mercer family, the vast Koch network, and a new guard of "tech bro" financiers, including Peter Thiel, whose political and business interests align with the network's anti-democratic and authoritarian leanings.

Internationally, the network poses a significant threat to global stability. Through its primary global operator, ADF International, it has established a strategic presence in key centers of global governance, including Vienna, Brussels, Geneva, and at the United Nations. It employs a "Trojan Horse" strategy, using the language and mechanisms of human rights to subvert the international human rights system from within, attacking established rights for women and LGBTQ+ people under the banner of "religious freedom." This effort contributes to a global trend of democratic backsliding and seeks to build a cohesive international alliance of illiberal forces.

In response to this multifaceted threat, this report proposes a comprehensive playbook for democratic defense. This strategy involves fortifying domestic resilience through legal and educational initiatives, countering financial and informational warfare by regulating critical infrastructure and demanding transparency, and forging a unified international front among democracies. The proposed countermeasures are designed to be proactive, aiming not only to defend against the network's incursions but to go on the offensive by championing democratic values, exposing the hypocrisy of anti-democratic movements, and raising the costs of illiberal activity globally. The analysis concludes that only a strategic, coordinated, and robust multi-domain response can effectively counter this well-funded and ideologically driven threat to the liberal democratic order.

Section 1: Mapping the Network: From Moral Crusades to Political Power

What may initially appear as a disparate collection of single-issue activist groups operating in different countries is, upon closer examination, a highly coordinated and ideologically coherent transnational network. This network skillfully leverages public-facing "moral crusades" as a vehicle to advance a much broader and more profound political project. The connections trace a clear path from localized campaigns rooted in social purity and child protection to a sophisticated, multi-layered influence operation aimed at the highest levels of political power in the United States and the erosion of liberal democratic norms globally. The architecture of this network reveals a strategic division of labor: Anglo-American "purity" groups generate moral panic and public pressure, a theological core provides the ideological justification and personnel, and an elite political-legal vanguard translates this energy into policy and power, culminating in a comprehensive plan to remake the American government.

1.1 The Anglo-American "Purity" Axis: Weaponizing Moral Panic

The network's most visible and tactically innovative front involves the collaboration between activist groups in the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. These organizations have perfected a method of using "anti-sexual exploitation" and "child safety" as a powerful lever for achieving widespread censorship and social control, often by circumventing traditional legal and legislative channels.

At the forefront of this effort in the UK is CEASE UK (Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation), a registered charity co-founded by Naomi Miles.¹ While presenting itself as a human rights organization dedicated to dismantling the drivers of sexual exploitation ³, its primary operational focus has been on lobbying for the stringent regulation of online pornography.³ CEASE UK was a significant and successful advocate for the UK's Online Safety Act, a landmark piece of legislation that received Royal Assent in October 2023.⁷ The Act imposes extensive duties on social media and search services, with its strongest protections aimed at children. A key provision mandates robust age verification for platforms hosting adult content, a measure CEASE UK has long campaigned for.⁶ The implementation of the Act has led to significant operational challenges for online platforms, sparked widespread user privacy concerns over the collection of sensitive data like government IDs or biometric scans, and reportedly caused a massive surge in VPN usage by UK citizens seeking to circumvent the new restrictions.⁸

CEASE UK's counterpart in Australia is Collective Shout, a self-described grassroots movement campaigning against the "objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls".⁹ Their tactics include public pressure campaigns against corporations, such as their successful effort to have rapper Tyler, the Creator banned from touring Australia over his lyrical content. However, their most potent tactic has been the targeting of financial intermediaries.

The critical nexus of this international axis is a coordinated campaign that weaponizes the power of the financial industry. In July 2025, an open letter was sent to the CEOs of major payment processors, including Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal.¹² This letter was co-signed by a transnational coalition that included Collective Shout from Australia, CEASE UK, and two major American organizations: the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) and Exodus Cry.¹² The campaign was ostensibly sparked by the temporary availability of a controversial video game titled "No Mercy" on the Steam and Itch.io platforms.¹³

The outcome of this campaign was swift and decisive. Both Steam and Itch.io, a major platform for independent game developers, were forced to take drastic action. Itch.io de-indexed all adult-oriented NSFW content from its platform, while Steam removed numerous adult-only games and updated its guidelines to prohibit content that violates the rules of its payment partners.¹² In a press reply, Valve, the owner of Steam, explicitly confirmed that it had been pressured by its payment processors to implement these changes.¹²

This sequence of events reveals a highly effective strategy that can be described as a "moral panic to financial de-platforming" pipeline. The network identifies or elevates a point of moral outrage—in this case, "rape games"—and uses it to launch a public-facing campaign framed around child protection. The crucial step is that the pressure is not directed at the content creators or even primarily at the platforms hosting the content, but at the critical financial infrastructure upon which the entire digital ecosystem depends. Payment processors, being highly risk-averse and sensitive to brand reputation ¹⁵, become a choke point. This allows the network to achieve widespread censorship through economic coercion, forcing compliance without needing to pass a single law or win a single court case. This establishes a dangerous precedent of "financial censorship," where essential services that function as de facto public utilities in the digital economy become unelected moral arbiters, capable of strangling entire categories of legal speech and commerce based on the demands of activist groups.¹⁶

The American partners in this campaign, NCOSE and Exodus Cry, employ similar tactics domestically. NCOSE, a conservative anti-pornography organization that evolved from the group Morality in Media ¹⁹, is known for its "Dirty Dozen List," an annual pressure campaign targeting major corporations it deems complicit in sexual exploitation.²⁰ A notable success of this strategy was their campaign against Walmart, which resulted in the retailer removing Cosmopolitan magazine from its checkout aisles nationwide. NCOSE framed this as a victory for protecting children from "sexually explicit material" and creating a more family-friendly environment, comparing the magazine's content to that of Playboy.²¹

Exodus Cry, a US-based Christian non-profit ²³, shares the goal of abolishing the entire commercial sex industry.²³ It has also engaged in high-profile pressure campaigns, including against the content subscription platform OnlyFans and the pornography website Pornhub, contributing to policy changes at those companies.²³Together, these four organizations—CEASE UK, Collective Shout, NCOSE, and Exodus Cry—form a potent, internationally coordinated axis that has proven its ability to manipulate financial systems to enforce its specific moral agenda.

1.2 The Theological Core: Charismatic Purity and Conversion

The activism of the network is not arbitrary; it is deeply rooted in and fueled by a specific, hardline Christian theological worldview that provides both the ideological framework and a pipeline of dedicated personnel. The central tenets of this worldview are a focus on spiritual purity, a belief in supernatural intervention, and an enduring commitment to the concept of "conversion" as the solution to perceived social and personal brokenness.

A key organization in this theological core is Exodus Cry. Founded by Benjamin Nolot, the group's origins lie in the charismatic Christian movement, specifically the International House of Prayer Kansas City (IHOPKC).²³ Exodus Cry began as a prayer group within IHOPKC focused on sex trafficking before separating to become an independent entity in 2012.²⁵ The organization's work, such as its documentary film Liberated, which condemns modern "hook-up culture" ²³, reflects its evangelical mission. Founder Benjamin Nolot has a documented history of personal statements opposing abortion and gay marriage, views that have caused controversy and led to organizations like HBO and the International Slavery Museum severing ties with Exodus Cry.²³

IHOPKC itself is a significant institution within the American charismatic movement, known for its 24/7 prayer and worship services streamed globally.²⁶ However, the organization has been thrown into turmoil by credible and serious allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse against its founder, Mike Bickle.²⁵ Andrew Comiskey, another figure linked to the network, described the situation as an "IHOP Meltdown" caused by Bickle's "demonic abuse of power" and predatory behavior.²⁹ In response to the allegations, Exodus Cry issued statements expressing shock and grief, condemning Bickle's actions, and formally reiterating its organizational independence from IHOPKC.²⁵

The network's deep connection to the ideology of "conversion" is most clearly demonstrated through its links to the now-defunct "ex-gay" movement. The transcript notes that IHOPKC hosted a podcast with Andy Comiskey, the founder of Desert Stream Ministries and a prominent figure in Exodus International.³⁰ Exodus International was for decades the leading umbrella organization for ministries promoting gay conversion therapy, a practice widely discredited by mainstream medical and mental health organizations.³² Comiskey's ministry is explicitly dedicated to helping individuals "overcome homosexuality" and achieve what he terms "sexual wholeness" through Christian faith.³¹

The intensity of this belief system is highlighted by the fact that Comiskey and Desert Stream Ministries ultimately disassociated from Exodus International in 2012. The reason for the split was that Comiskey felt Exodus International, under its then-president Alan Chambers, was becoming too permissive and "unclear" about the possibility of change for same-sex attracted individuals. Comiskey's ministry, in its statement explaining the departure, affirmed its belief that "homosexual behavior" is a "serious betrayal" of humanity and that repentance is necessary for salvation, a stance he felt Exodus was abandoning.³³

This history reveals the enduring influence of a "conversion" ideology that underpins the entire network's activities. The same theological framework that powered the ex-gay movement—the belief that identities and behaviors deemed sinful are forms of "brokenness" that can and must be "healed," converted, or eradicated—is now being applied to a much broader cultural sphere. The objective is not pluralism or coexistence, but the transformation or elimination of opposing worldviews and lifestyles from the public square. This is not merely a preference for a certain type of society; it is a theological mandate. The campaigns against pornography, the sex industry, and even mainstream media like Cosmopolitan are driven by this zero-sum logic. Just as the ex-gay movement viewed homosexuality as an impurity to be purged from an individual, this broader network views secular sexuality, LGBTQ+ rights, and feminist ideas as impurities to be purged from the culture. The strategy is conversion where possible, and elimination—through censorship, de-platforming, and legal prohibition—where it is not. This absolutist worldview explains the uncompromising nature of their campaigns and their ultimate political goals.

1.3 The Political-Legal Vanguard: The Heritage Foundation and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)

While the "purity" groups provide the grassroots energy and the theological core provides the ideological fuel, the network's power is truly magnified and directed by an elite vanguard of well-funded, highly professionalized legal and political organizations. These groups take the raw material of moral panic and religious fervor and transform it into sophisticated legal challenges, policy proposals, and direct political influence. The two most significant entities in this vanguard are the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and The Heritage Foundation.

The Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is arguably the world's largest and most influential Christian conservative legal organization.³⁴ Founded in 1994 by leaders of the Christian Right, including James Dobson of Focus on the Family, its mission is to litigate cases that advance its vision of religious freedom, which includes expanding Christian practices in government and public schools, outlawing abortion, and relentlessly opposing LGBTQ+ rights.³⁵ The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has designated the ADF as an anti-LGBTQ+ hate group for its history of spreading known falsehoods, such as linking homosexuality to pedophilia, and for its support for the criminalization of same-sex sexual acts both in the U.S. and abroad.³⁶ The connection between this legal powerhouse and the "purity" front is explicit; the video transcript confirms that key figures at NCOSE, such as Patrick Trueman and Benjamin Bull, have a history of working directly with the ADF. The ADF is a central pillar of the network's political strategy, serving as a key advisory board member and contributor to Project 2025.⁴⁰

The Heritage Foundation is one of America's premier conservative think tanks, founded in 1973 to formulate and promote public policies based on principles of "free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense".⁴⁴ For decades, it has been a dominant force in shaping Republican party platforms and presidential administrations. Its Mandate for Leadership series has served as a policy blueprint for conservative presidents since the Reagan administration.⁴⁰ In the context of this network, The Heritage Foundation serves as the primary architect, organizer, and driving force behind Project 2025, providing the institutional capacity and intellectual framework to synthesize the network's disparate goals into a single, comprehensive plan for governance.⁴⁰

These two organizations are joined by other powerful groups that share their ideology and goals. The American Family Association (AFA) and the Family Research Council (FRC) are also SPLC-designated hate groups that partner in Project 2025.⁴⁰The FRC, which grew out of Focus on the Family, lobbies against abortion, divorce, and all LGBTQ+ rights, often using junk science and discredited research to support its positions.⁴⁷ The SPLC has documented the FRC's long history of demonizing LGBTQ+ people, including its promotion of the myth that gay men are more likely to be pedophiles.⁴⁸

The involvement of these organizations marks a critical transition point in the network's structure. It is where the seemingly apolitical "anti-exploitation" campaigns merge with a hardened, partisan political machine. The ADF provides the legal strategy to turn ideological goals into court victories and legislation, while The Heritage Foundation provides the overarching policy vision and the roadmap for implementation at the highest levels of the federal government.

1.4 The Apex of Influence: Project 2025

Project 2025 represents the ultimate synthesis of the network's ambitions. It is not merely a collection of policy papers; it is a detailed, actionable, and comprehensive playbook designed to enable a future conservative administration, specifically one led by Donald Trump, to seize the levers of state power and fundamentally remake the United States in the network's ideological image. It is the point where the moral, theological, and political-legal streams of the network converge into a single, powerful torrent aimed at the heart of American democracy.

Officially titled the "Presidential Transition Project," Project 2025 is a 900-page authoritarian manifesto published by The Heritage Foundation in collaboration with an advisory board of over 100 conservative and far-right partner organizations.⁴¹ Its stated goal is to prepare a conservative president to be ready on day one to begin dismantling the administrative state, destroying what it sees as a liberal bureaucracy, and concentrating vast new powers within the presidency.⁴⁵

The project serves as the definitive convergence point for the network mapped in this report. The mind map and transcript correctly identify that NCOSE, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the American Family Association (AFA), and The Heritage Foundation are all signatories, contributors, and coalition partners in Project 2025.⁴⁰This connection is the critical link that proves the groups engaged in "purity" campaigns are not operating in a vacuum. Their work feeds into, and is legitimized by, a concrete plan for seizing and wielding state power, a plan that explicitly bears the names of Donald Trump and his close associate, JD Vance [Image 1, Image 2].

The aims of Project 2025 are sweeping and would touch nearly every aspect of American life, systematically implementing the network's core ideological tenets:

• An Assault on LGBTQ+ Rights: A primary goal is to erase legal recognition and protection for LGBTQ+ individuals. The plan calls for deleting the terms "sexual orientation," "gender identity," "gender equality," and "gender equity" from all federal statutes, regulations, and agency communications. This would effectively gut non-discrimination protections in areas like housing, employment, and healthcare.⁴¹

• The Criminalization of Reproductive Freedom: The project outlines a plan to use all powers of the federal government to end access to abortion nationwide. This includes enforcing the Comstock Act to criminalize the mailing of abortion pills, prosecuting providers, and transforming the Department of Health and Human Services into a "Department of Life" dedicated to an anti-abortion mission.⁴¹ The agenda also seeks to eliminate access to contraception.⁴¹

• The Dismantling of Racial Equity Initiatives: Project 2025 declares war on all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, which it labels "racist policymaking" and "affirmative discrimination." It proposes using the Department of Justice to prosecute private companies that maintain DEIA initiatives and to aggressively pursue cases of so-called "anti-white racism".⁴¹

• Authoritarian Governmental Restructuring: The centerpiece of the project's plan for seizing power is the revival of "Schedule F," a job classification that would allow a president to fire tens of thousands of career civil servants—scientists, policy experts, attorneys—and replace them with ideologically vetted political loyalists. This would destroy the non-partisan civil service and ensure that the entire federal bureaucracy serves the president's political aims rather than the public interest.⁴⁶

Project 2025 is the logical and terrifying endpoint of the network's activities. It demonstrates that the campaigns against video games, magazines, and the sex industry were never the final goal. They were training grounds, fundraising tools, and mobilization efforts for a much larger prize: the capture of the American state and its reconfiguration according to a rigid, illiberal, and theocratic vision.

Table 1: Profile of Key Network Organizations

The following table provides an at-a-glance reference to the primary organizations within this network, contrasting their public-facing mission statements with their documented ideological goals and tactics. This juxtaposition highlights the strategic disconnect between their branding and their true objectives, deconstructing their public narrative.

Section 2: Ideological Architecture and Financial Underpinnings

To fully comprehend the threat posed by this network, it is essential to dissect the ideological doctrines that unify its disparate parts and the financial engines that power its operations. The analysis reveals that Christian Nationalism serves as the central organizing principle, providing a divine mandate for a radical political project. This ideology has a functional and deeply troubling nexus with white supremacist goals, particularly as articulated in the policy proposals of Project 2025. This entire apparatus is underwritten by a formidable coalition of funders, including established conservative oligarchs and a new guard of "tech bro" financiers who share the network's anti-democratic and illiberal worldview.

2.1 Christian Nationalism as the Unifying Doctrine

Christian Nationalism is the ideological glue that binds the network together. It is not synonymous with Christianity; rather, it is a political ideology that fuses a specific interpretation of Christian identity with American civic life.⁵⁵ Its core assertion is that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and must be governed as such, with its laws and institutions reflecting a narrow, fundamentalist version of Christian morality.⁴⁶ This worldview is inherently anti-democratic, as it places this interpretation of "God's law" above the Constitution and the will of a pluralistic populace, ultimately seeking to establish a form of theocracy.⁵⁶

Project 2025 is the most comprehensive and explicit blueprint for implementing a Christian nationalist government in American history. The document is saturated with the language and goals of the movement. Its foreword, written by Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts, opens with a promise to "restore the family as the centerpiece of American life" and "secure our God-given individual rights".⁵⁸ The playbook explicitly calls for the federal government to "maintain a biblically based, social science-reinforced definition of marriage and family".⁴⁶ This theological mandate is the justification for its most radical proposals. The plan to systematically delete terms like "sexual orientation," "gender identity," "abortion," and "reproductive health" from all federal laws, regulations, and documents is not presented as a mere policy preference but as a necessary purification of the state from concepts that conflict with "biblical principles".⁴⁶

This unifying doctrine connects the high-level political maneuvering of The Heritage Foundation directly to the grassroots campaigns of the "purity" groups. The absolutist, "abolitionist" mission of an organization like Exodus Cry—to completely eradicate the commercial sex industry ²³—is a perfect reflection of the Christian nationalist impulse to purge society of any moral framework that competes with its own. Similarly, the censorship campaigns waged by NCOSE and Collective Shout are not merely about removing offensive content; they are about eliminating what they see as a "sex-saturated" or "pornified" culture that undermines their vision of a godly society.¹⁰ The network's intense focus on controlling sexuality, gender roles, and family structures is a core tenet of the Christian nationalist project, which views the traditional, patriarchal family as the foundational unit of a divinely ordered nation.⁴⁶

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