Posted on 12/09/2011 3:50:23 PM PST by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C. December 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – In a speech designed to convince the world that “gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said religious objections to homosexuality should not stand in the way of vigorous United Nations action to promote the homosexual rights agenda.
On Tuesday, Clinton said promoting the global acceptance of “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people” is “one of the remaining human rights challenges of our time,” likening the effort to ending racial, sexual, or religious discrimination.
She noted that perhaps the “most challenging issue arises when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the human rights of LGBT citizens.” These objections, she said, are “not unlike the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation.”
She stated worldwide “opinions are still evolving” on homosexuality as they did with slavery, and “what was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.”
“In each of these cases, we came to learn that no [religious] practice or tradition trumps the human rights that belong to all of us,” she said.
She insisted the UN must oppose all forms of human rights violations against homosexuals and “transgender” people, from execution and banishment to criminalizing LGBT “status or behavior,” denying them free access to “public spaces,” or the “bullying and exclusion” that takes place in the United States. “I speak about this subject knowing that my own country’s record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect,” Clinton said.
Clinton said that that notions that “gay people are pedophiles, that homosexuality is a disease that can be caught or cured, or that gays recruit others to become gay” are “simply not true.”
The secretary of state added that nations must pass LGBT civil rights laws, even when they offend the majority of a nation’s citizens. “Leadership, by definition, means being out in front of your people when it is called for,” Clinton said. “[W]e are each free to believe whatever we choose…But progress comes from changes in laws.”
The address made a five-fold argument that LGBT rights are not distinct from human rights, that homosexuality is not uniquely Western, that religion is not a valid defense, that no serious argument exists against public homosexual behavior, and that all humans must do their part to advance LGBT rights.
Clinton’s speech, delivered in Geneva on Tuesday to celebrate International Human Rights Day, underscored the fact that the Obama administration has made the worldwide acceptance of homosexuality a pillar of its foreign policy at the UN and around the world. Her address came the same day President Obama announced a plan to reshape American foreign policy to promote global acceptance of homosexuality. The plan instructs all foreign officers to “combat discrimination, homophobia, and intolerance on the basis of LGBT status or conduct” and establishes a $3 million “Global Equality Fund” to finance homosexual activists around the world.
The new initiative is only the latest in a series of steps the Obama administration has taken to push gay rights abroad. In the first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council last year, the Obama administration noted, “Debate continues over equal rights to marriage for LGBT Americans at the federal and state levels.”
U.S. delegates advanced a measure opposing the criminalization of homosexuality in the UN Human Rights Council in March that won the support of 85 nations. In July 2010, the Obama administration helped the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) gain NGO status at the UN without the approval of that body’s NGO Committee and over a “no action” vote supported by a majority of members including Russia, China, and Egypt.
Buster Wilson, host of the American Family Radio Network program “AFA Today,” said, “Hillary Clinton is now…taking the fight on behalf of LGBT people on behalf of the Obama administration to the front lines.” He said her notion that “deeply held religious beliefs are standing in the way of human rights for LGBT people” was simply “unbelievable.”
Wilson cited her comments as one of several examples that has convinced some observers the Obama administration is waging a “war on religion.”
Why didn’t she give this speech while visiting countries like Syria and Libya???
A certain remark made by Bubba to Gennifer Flowers, about Hillary, comes to mind, but this being a decent, family friendly site, I can’t even paraphrase it.
“She noted that perhaps the “most challenging issue arises when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the human rights of LGBT citizens.” These objections, she said, are “not unlike the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation.” “
She is equating objection to homosexuality with violent murders and assault. It’s not worth it to even address this issue with her because she is using wild hyberbole. Similar to asking, “When did you stop beating your wife?”
Bravo!!! Bravo!!!!
(standing ovation with multitudes of golf claps.)
‘She stated worldwide “opinions are still evolving” on homosexuality as they did with slavery, and “what was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.”’
Hitlery needs to read 1 Timothy 1:8-11.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20timothy%201:8-11&version=ESVUK
Verse 10 condemns both homosexual behavior and taking someone captive in order to sell him into slavery. We need to remember this whenever the libs tell us believing in Biblical views of sex and marriage is the same as “supporting slavery.”
What else would a lesbian say?
So Hillary sees the rights of perverts trump the religious rights of others.
You’re right. Most of us know the rumor which has existed for at least two decades. It is no wonder Bill was such a frustrated womanizer.
Take it up with God:
Revelation 22:13-15 MKJV
(13) I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the First and the Last.
(14) Blessed are they who do His commandments, that their authority will be over the Tree of Life, and they may enter in by the gates into the city.
(15) But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.
NB: ‘dogs’ is a reference to male prostitutes. Recall that the Book of Revelation was dictated to the Apostle John by Jesus himself. And here in the last few paragraphs, Jesus is telling us who will not be allowed to enter Jerusalem, a clear metaphor for salvation. On that list are ‘fornicators’, or people who practice illicit sexual sexual relations, whether those are homo or hetero sexual.
“Out damn spot”.
Freep you, Hitlery Rotten Clinton!!
I might agree with her depending on who she's talking about. If she's talking about Muslims who will stone someone for the sin of homosexuality, then I will agree. If she's talking about modern Christians who object mainly to the notion that homosexuals deserve special rights and to the aggressive public promotion of homosexuality as an equally valid lifestyle choice, then I would have to disagree.
"I KNOW BUT ONE CODE OF MORALITY FOR MEN WHETHER ACTING SINGLY OR COLLECTIVELY"
--Thomas Jefferson
Sure, we’ll just change the Old and New Testaments to make everyone happy......
It never ends with these people. It never ends.
She is wrong, of course. Homosexuality kills those who practice it and their victims. Honor killing doesn’t kill the practitioner; it kills his victims.
“Clinton said that that notions that ‘gay people are pedophiles, that homosexuality is a disease that can be caught or cured, or that gays recruit others to become gay’ are ‘simply not true.’ “
In other words——
“Forget all that God stuff, Bitter Clingers! We Are The Left! We know all!”
It’s Hillary spouting “the gay party line” that gay rights are the same and equivalent to civil rights and racial discrimination, yada, yada, yada. She and they are wrong.
I wasn’t aware hillary ever had any expertise on religion unless it had something to do with a sacred cow in DC.
She better watch it. If she were a Pubbie, she would taken to the woodshed for those anti-Islam remarks
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