Posted on 12/06/2011 9:52:19 AM PST by DBCJR
President Obama ordered U.S. diplomatic missions and federal agencies working abroad to strengthen efforts to fight international discrimination against gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender individuals, saying he is “deeply concerned by the violence” against them in many parts of the world.
... The memo, immediately celebrated by gay and lesbian leaders, elevates the importance of combating discrimination against the LGBT community within Obama’s foreign policy. The issue is an important one to a key element of Obama’s political base, and the move strengthens the argument he is building that he has done more to end the ostracism experienced by the LGBT community, at home and abroad, than his predecessors.
The memo directs all “agencies engaged abroad to ensure that U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote and protect the human rights of LGBT persons.”
Specifically, the directive orders those agencies to step up efforts to combat the criminalization of homosexuality in other countries,...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
“and the move strengthens the argument he is building that he has done more to end the ostracism experienced by the LGBT community, at home and abroad, than his predecessors.”
Maybe he wants to ask for Larry Sinclair’s forgiveness. Seems like he has ostracized Sinclair to the extreme. obama should be proud of who he “loves” (as he phrases it).
The issue aside, once again he’s throwing our taxdollars out to foreign countries instead of trying to fix the many problems here. Of course, that’s his plan.
Oh, and sorry, there is no such thing as a transgender, only mutilated freaks.
/rant off
Mon, Dec. 05 2011
African AIDS Funding to be Slashed Due to Anti-Gay Legislation
So sick to see a President of the US encouraging perverts worldwide. We are really sinking low these days.
Sad, really sad.
Wouldn’t you like to be assigned to an embassy in the middle east right now to do this?
I suggest 0 bummer has a summit with "my mood I am a nutjob" in Iran and tell him to be tolerant to queers.
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