Apr. 20, 2007 (C-fam.org/CWNews.com) - A left-wing coalition within the European Parliament has sought to dissuade a US State Department official from attending the World Congress of Families in Poland, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-Fam) reports.
 
 A group of hard-left members of the European Parliament (MEPs) sent a letter to Ellen Sauerbrey, the assistant secretary of state for population, saying that she would be giving an “official US government stamp of approval to extremist and intolerant views” by attending the May event in Poland, reports Samantha Singson in C-Fam's Friday Fax.
 
 In the letter recently released to the Baltimore Sun by "Catholics for a Free Choice," 19 MEPS-- who comprise The European Parliamentary Working Group on Separation of Religion and Politics-- charge that organizers of the World Congress of Families have shown “prejudiced attitudes toward foreigners, people from other religions, homosexuals and the inclusive vision of what represents a family unit that has been developed by the United Nations and the European Union.”