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Obama orders U.S. diplomats to fight LGBT discrimination abroad
Washington Post ^ | Posted at 11:42 AM ET, 12/06/2011 | By Scott Wilson

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: gay; gaylesbian; homosexual; homosexualagenda; obama
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This should intensify islamo-terrorist rhetoric about our immoral, satanic culture and aid in recruiting. Is this the "winning the hearts and minds" and furthering commonalities he campaigned on?
1 posted on 12/06/2011 9:52:28 AM PST by DBCJR
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This could work out OK. The next time some gays are hanged in Tehran, perhaps we’ll drop some bombs on their nuke sites.


2 posted on 12/06/2011 9:56:05 AM PST by GOP_Party_Animal
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Earth to Obama!....forget the overseas homo agenda and concentrate on jobs, ASSCLOWN!


3 posted on 12/06/2011 9:57:24 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: DBCJR

The leader of the greatest country in the world, displaying his dynamic, visionary leadership skills.


4 posted on 12/06/2011 9:58:43 AM PST by Rennes Templar
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The middle east is about to explode. Europe is slipping into a financial implosion. North Korean nukes and Chinese militarization? Perhaps Great Leader should not worry so much about the rump riders. Maybe he can reprioritize during his multi-million dollar vacation.


5 posted on 12/06/2011 10:05:05 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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Obama should issue a fatwa banning discrimination against LGBT’s.


6 posted on 12/06/2011 10:06:34 AM PST by paterfamilias
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So I guess this means we will no longer be spending money in much of Islamic Africa, on the Palestinian Authority or any other Arab Muslim country...Right?!? Somehow I doubt it. I imagine that this will only apply to Christian nations...


7 posted on 12/06/2011 10:13:30 AM PST by apillar
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The word, “laughingstock” comes to mind. What idiots.


8 posted on 12/06/2011 10:15:41 AM PST by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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Cool this will save a ton of foreign aid costs to all the ME countries.....

....right.......?


9 posted on 12/06/2011 10:15:41 AM PST by GraceG
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I hope the Poles kick their butts out of the country if they try to pull that stunt over there.


10 posted on 12/06/2011 10:17:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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Nevermind Christians being murdered and abused daily throughout the middle east and Africa, PRIORITIES!


11 posted on 12/06/2011 10:19:40 AM PST by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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The violence against Christians around the world absolutely dwarfs this issue, if it even is an issue. Yet Obama is completely silent on it. This is beyond pathetic.


12 posted on 12/06/2011 10:21:24 AM PST by crusader71
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However, Christians and Jews being burned beheaded and bombed need to show restraint and stop being so damn difficult for the terrorists to negotiate with


13 posted on 12/06/2011 10:21:39 AM PST by silverleaf (common sense is not so common- voltaire)
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But, it's OK to burn churches and murder Christians in the Middle East. Isn't that right Hillary Clinton?
14 posted on 12/06/2011 10:26:06 AM PST by steveab (When was the last time someone tried to sell you a CO2 induced climate control system for your home?)
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It all fits in with his Arab Spring movement, with all the pretty pink and lavender tints of the season. Fabulous!


15 posted on 12/06/2011 10:27:22 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: silverleaf

This glorification of acts which moral Christians and Jews rightly have always condemned is to destroy the Judeo/Christian Ethics and implant the hedonistic/atheist/Marxist/Muslim worldview that biology has no meaning and their is no Right Reason According to Nature as the basis of American Jurisprudence.

This means—you may not use reason and logic and biology in determining “Right and Wrong” for law—you have to FORCE the insanity of Barney Frank’s Standards of Right and Wrong.

We are fundamentally transforming the BASIC FABRIC of our legal system. (Totally unconstitutional).


16 posted on 12/06/2011 10:27:22 AM PST by savagesusie
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PROPER TRANSLATION:

Obama wants to spread the myth of inate homosexuality and force other nations to adopt his liberal views before they get assistance from the US.


17 posted on 12/06/2011 10:30:03 AM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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We don’t need to push our immorality on others anymore than we need to be giving others money we don’t have.


18 posted on 12/06/2011 10:33:02 AM PST by pallis
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I know —let’s put a swift end to the War against Islamic Terror—Let’s push the 0 out the back door of a C-130 ,with most of his Administration and political appointments over
Pakistan or someplace where the locals slay anybody except their war lord for homosexual acts and let them walk home naked.


19 posted on 12/06/2011 10:35:18 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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To: Rennes Templar

Oh, and don’t foget to properly inflate your tires!


20 posted on 12/06/2011 10:41:37 AM PST by StAntKnee (I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
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