Posted on 04/06/2015 5:35:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Joe Biden to Authoritarian Chinese President: U.S. Only Supports Human Rights As ‘Political (Free Beacon ^ | 4/2/15 | Daniel Wiser)
Vice President Joe Biden once told Chinese President Xi Jinping that U.S. leaders only support human rights as a matter of political optics, and that this makes the United States no better than China, according to a new New Yorker profile of Jinping.The New Yorker relates encounters between Biden and Jinping in 2011 and 2012, when both were vice presidents of their respective nations:
Biden told me that Xi asked him why the U.S. put “so much emphasis on human rights.” Biden replied to Xi, “No President of the United States could represent the United States were he not committed to human rights,” and went on, “If you don’t understand this, you can’t deal with us. President Barack Obama would not be able to stay in power if he did not speak of it. So look at it as a political imperative. It doesn’t make us better or worse. It’s who we are. You make your decisions. We’ll make ours.”
Did you read the article? This has to do with state hiring practices, not with private business decisions or gay marriage.
Read it and went to a point homonazis may demand.
Agree...this is about govt not discriminating...and government should not. Now a private business should be able to refuse service to any party for ANY reason...yes ANY reason
there is usually an exemption for residences...not sure in this case
"Any time a homosexual or other 'non-standard sexed'individual expresses that he/she/it feels they have been discriminated against, the ones they accuse are guilty and must be severely punished."
I agree. There’s a huge distinction between private people choosing with whom to do business and the government itself having a policy of discrimination.
One is (or ought to be) perfectly acceptable, but the other can never be tolerated.
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