Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

WASHINGTON — The United States named its first international envoy for gay rights Monday, tasking a veteran diplomat with leading U.S. efforts to fight violence and discrimination against L**T individuals overseas.
Randy Berry, currently the consul general in the Netherlands, will promote human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and t*********r individuals, Secretary of State John Kerry said. A longtime foreign service officer, Berry has served at U.S. posts in Bangladesh, Egypt, Uganda and South Africa, and speaks Spanish and Arabic.

"Defending and promoting the human rights of L**T persons is at the core of our commitment to advancing human rights globally — the heart and conscience of our diplomacy," Kerry said in a statement. He cited overturning laws that still criminalize same-sex activity in more than 75 countries as a specific priority.

The State Department has said it planned to appoint an openly gay diplomat to the post.

Long in the works, Berry's appointment as a special envoy is the latest move by the Obama administration to make L**T rights a prominent part of its human rights efforts around the world. In 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared during a speech in Geneva that "gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights." And earlier this year, the White House for the first time included human rights protection for L**T people in its formal national security strategy.

"Nations that place L**T people in the cross hairs of danger must know that the United States will not turn a blind eye," said Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights group.

The announcement also comes amid a heightened public focus on t*********r rights. Ash Carter, on his first overseas trip as defense secretary, suggested he was open to allowing t*********r people to serve openly in the U.S. military.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that President Barack Obama welcomed Carter's comments and agrees that all Americans qualified for military service should be able to serve.



http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/02/us_names_first_global_envoy_for_l**t_rights

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Aren't you getting tired of the concept of a behavior pattern being considered on the same plain as your g****r or your ethnicity? This is getting WAY out of hand!!

LurkingTom Loc: North Dakota

What rights do they not have? What they are really after is special rights and privileges, protection under the law for their perverted sexual tendencies.

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

I am. I'm also baffled as to how the 3% has so much influence. I read your post about that school and the the children, Im speechless. It's amazing what happens when you take God out the schools, and how quick the vacuum was filled with depravity; I worry for our children.

e.samson Loc: Enfield, CT

"Aren't you getting tired of the concept of a behavior pattern being considered on the same plain as your g****r or your ethnicity?"

I am. Gays have a g****r, i.e., either male or female. Those are their statistical classifications based on physical traits. Other bases could include: ethnicity, language spoken, race, age, income, etc. In my opinion, behavioral patterns are not, and should not be, one of these, unless in special studies of well-defined groups, among which is sexual orientation. I think gays and lesbians, themselves, should discourage being identified as special groups if their goal is to be assimilated into the population simply as citizens in their country. What people do in the privacy of their homes are their business. Gays are people, period.

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

Great post, and welcome to OPP. For future reference use the 'quote reply' option at the bottom of each post, this will attach the person's comment to which you are replying. Have a lovely day, see you around.