Posted on 02/19/2019 10:30:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
BERLIN - The Trump administration is launching a global campaign to end the criminalization of homosexuality in dozens of nations where it's still illegal to be gay, U.S. officials tell NBC News, a bid aimed in part at denouncing Iran over its human rights record.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the highest-profile openly gay person in the Trump administration, is leading the effort, which kicks off Tuesday evening in Berlin. The U.S. embassy is flying in LGBT activists from across Europe for a strategy dinner to plan to push for decriminalization in places that still outlaw homosexuality - mostly concentrated in the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean.
It is concerning that, in the 21st century, some 70 countries continue to have laws that criminalize LGBTI status or conduct, said a U.S. official involved in organizing the event.
Grenell, known for his hawkish views on national security, is also currently under consideration to be Trumps ambassador to the U.N., three U.S. officials tell NBC News, after Trumps previous pick for the job, Heather Nauert, withdrew from consideration over the weekend. Grenell once served as spokesman for the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. when that role was inhabited by John Bolton, who is now Trumps national security adviser.
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Try to lead her away from the path toward the fire.
“Why arrest someone for their sex preferences?”
It’s not a preference; it is a mental disorder. Those who suffer from it do great harm to themselves and all around them.
“prosecuting consenting adults.”
A person who suffers from same-sex attraction is not mentally competent to consent to a homosexual act; there is, therefore, no such thing as consensual homosexual behavior.
“My daughter is gay”
No, she isn’t. Everyone is heterosexual, but some suffer from same-sex attraction disorder. You should get her some help.
Here where I reside we have ‘Two spirited’ as part of the LGBT animal cracker designation. Just nuts.
The thing is Islam is actually quite inconsistent with homosexuality. It has been widely practiced since 600 AD but kept quiet. Especially diddling little boys. The key is not flaunt it and keep it quiet. No one is going to care about some Saudi Prince and who he shags in his bedroom.
So saracen-majority countries are doing something right? Do you understand your comment?
But the left promised that he hates gays! Did they lie?
Oh good Lord man.
well mr trump .....God and ur wife and almost all ur base just turned on you ...
NOT what I voted for.
I voted to save America, not invade Venezuela, not invade Iran, not change the laws of other nations which are based on thousands of years of civilization.
Obama also wrecked nations, which the Trump admin is also fond of with sanctions & threats of war.
I doubt the “shithole” nations with such laws are looking forward to having 89 genders, like we are adopting, or having their 5 year old boys become girls.
Maybe they are smarter.
Look, call me a bleeding heart libtard (?????!!!!) but I don’t think it needs to be ILLEGAL. Letting them do what they do behind closed doors is a far cry from letting them get married or throwing them a parade.
Certainly they don’t need to be killed or like they do in Iran FORCED TO GET SEX CHANGE OPERATIONS (in lieu of prison or death)! Those sick Iranians. I think it’s entirely proper for the US to condemn these bloodthirsty Muslims cruelty towards homos. We don’t need to “stay out of” condemning barbarous third world behavior. We should also condemn them slicing off little girls clitorises, executing people without a fair trial, ect.
And no I’m not saying sodomy is a constitutional right, I’m saying I agree with Thomas’s dissent in that case, he said if he were a State legislator he’d vote against a ridiculous unenforceable sodomy law.
We can’t stop homos from homo-ing and attempting to do so wouldn’t do any good for anyone. Violent suppression in Muslims countries has not eliminated homosexual behavior.
“Homosexuality or Same Sex Attraction is not in itself a sin against God.”
Romans 1. It is a consequence of idolatry.
Or force some to bake wedding cakes...
The Lord will judge...we are to love one another.
MAGA meant amnesty, increased migration, and this crap?
Why not. Adultery is not a crime.
But GOD still has something to say about it...
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
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