Posted on 12/16/2023 6:33:18 PM PST by Rummyfan
Are we fighting in Ukraine in order to “queer the Donbass”? That phrase, which I believe originated with TAC’s editor-at-large Rod Dreher, implies that the ideological package that NATO rallied to Ukraine to defend includes not only freedom and democracy but also pride parades and drag queen story hour. That would, of course, be a ridiculous reason to fight a war. Many Americans don’t want to queer their own kids’ elementary school, much less an industrial Slavic province five thousand miles away.
In August 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged that his government would introduce legislation to create civil partnerships for gay couples. The bill was approved by the Ministry of Justice in October 2023. Instituting gay marriage will require a constitutional amendment, which Zelensky has said will have to wait until after the war ends. In the meantime, the European Court of Human Rights ruled in June 2023 that two Ukrainian men seeking a marriage license had been illegally discriminated against and, as a signatory to the European human rights convention, Ukraine must pass a law that grants them equal treatment.
In theory, it ought to be possible to be part of the democratic world and not buy in to America’s particular version of non-traditional sexual morals. In practice, apparently, it is not.
The story of how gay rights came to play a role in American foreign policy is a curious one. It started under Barack Obama and continued, surprisingly, under Donald Trump. It was folded into our broader support for human rights at a time when every single referendum on gay marriage here in the United States had failed and support for gay marriage at home was far from unanimous. In light of that, it should be unsurprising that the answer to our original question is: Yes, in fact, we are fighting to queer the Donbass. The average American may not be interested in that goal, but our State Department is.
In 2004, billboards appeared in the Macedonian capital of Skopje with pictures of gay couples and the slogan “Face Reality, The Campaign to Promote the Rights of Sexual Minorities.” At the bottom right corner of each billboard was the seal of the U.S. embassy. The billboards had been purchased by a local gay rights group called the Center for Civil and Human Rights, which two years earlier had received a $20,000 grant from the U.S. government. The ambassador to Macedonia at the time, Lawrence Butler, was a Clinton appointee rumored to be personally hostile to the “family-values agenda” of Macedonian president Boris Trajkovski. The embassy nevertheless disavowed the posters, saying the CCHR had used the seal “inappropriately.”
The controversy over the Macedonian billboards put a chill on efforts to incorporate gay rights into American foreign policy. Proponents would absolutely continue working toward that goal. They just realized they would have to be cautious. When Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, his State Department appointees got to work on how to frame an international gay rights agenda. After two years, they were ready to proceed.
he founding charter of American gay rights diplomacy was a speech given by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Geneva in December 2011. In the speech, Clinton modified a line from the famous speech she gave in Beijing as first lady about women’s rights: “Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.” She told gay and transgender people around the world, “You have an ally in the United States, and you have millions of friends among the American people.” She also promised to “use all the tools of American diplomacy, including the potent enticement of foreign aid, to promote gay rights around the world.”
The depravity of the Great Satan is sweeping the world.
Is this why Cankles smashed all those phones?
The Deep State Golden Calf Globohomo’s forcing moral degeneracy and sexual depravity on the world.
For that reason alone, Russia will win.
Who are the commie-pinko-fags now?
Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him. They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off. (Hosea 8:3-4) I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. (Hosea 8:12) For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof. (Hosea 8:14)
They rhapsodies about little boys who are like pearls and have bottoms like peaches.
If you think that is ok over there than why are you upset over adult males over here?
Iran raping children ok, in the west will get you put in jail. There is a difference.
Is it location that makes kiddy rape ok?
I don't think so but you may see things differently.
The guy I was posting to thinks kiddy rape is good as long as it is a male mohammedan doing it. He also is in favor of honor killings in Iran which are not punished but thinks that any murder committed in the west which is punished is part of a degenerate society.
Be careful who you climb in bed with.
You can catch something nasty.
Senate interns getting butt slammed in the hearing chamber, NDAA enshrining homo and tranny and abortion. A homo swearing in to Fairfax county school board on a child’s homo comic instruction book... the government is utterly saturated in faggotry.
Yep. Russia is not the good guy.
We have 2 enemies to fight; the Globalists and their depraved agenda and the tyrannical Russian, Chinese, Iran, islamist axis.
on you tube walmart is running a many mini episode of two young people interacting romantically....I’d follow it thru except that have this silly gay guy prancing everywhere....what a turn off...
Normally, when the U.S. government funds a development program abroad, beneficiaries must mark products of this assistance with American branding. However, human rights grantees are exempt from this branding requirement due to the politically sensitive nature of their activities. Gay rights groups that receive money from the U.S. government are free to disclose this funding; they are also free not to.
OK to be sneaky where Sodomy is concerned.
In this case anti globalist/NATO/WEF Russia is the good guys
You can go with Osama/Bidementia, Blinkin,Nuland, DeepState Linda, McConnell, Schumer, or extract your head.
Yep. That’s why they hate Putin.
Remember when their only request was to “be left alone?”
“I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!?!?!”
The Left are masters of incrementalism. Thee are TV shows soon coming on MTV about Trans - totally mainstreaming this mental illness. And they wonder why all these mass shootings occur, BTW, ALL by people with mental illness.
50 years ago
I walked into an inner city
Kkk store front
The dressed up nazi
Was laughing at me
He told me this was going to happen
Same with a theology professor
I told him 35 yrs ago
Pc were freedom fighters
Not the 666er’s
Rev 13
The holy global empire usa
There are no good guys in the world these days.
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