In the spring of 2016, an ultra-conservative conclave, styled as the 10th convention of the World Congress of Families, convened in Tbilisi’s Concert Hall. A parade of delegates used the three-day event to rail against Western liberalism’s secular tendencies. One of the most outspoken orators in Tbilisi was Josiah Trenham, an Orthodox priest from Riverside, California, who derided “tolerance tyrants,” the “lavender mafia” and “homofascists” working to promote LGBT rights. Gay rights activism, he said, was tantamount to“a call for the overthrow of traditional religious and civilizational norms …