Posted on 06/28/2014 6:29:22 AM PDT by NYer
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- President Barack Obama's administration has taken the U.S. gay rights revolution global, using American embassies across the world as outposts in a struggle that still hasn't been won at home.
Sometimes U.S. advice and encouragement is condemned as unacceptable meddling. And sometimes it can seem to backfire, increasing the pressure on those it is meant to help.
With gay pride parades taking place in many cities across the world this weekend, the U.S. role will be more visible than ever. Diplomats will take part in parades and some embassies will fly the rainbow flag along with the Stars and Stripes.
The United States sent five openly gay ambassadors abroad last year, with a sixth nominee, to Vietnam, now awaiting Senate confirmation. American diplomats are working to support gay rights in countries such as Poland, where prejudice remains deep, and to oppose violence and other abuse in countries like Nigeria and Russia, where gays face life-threatening risks.
"It is incredible. I am amazed by what the U.S. is doing to help us," said Mariusz Kurc, the editor of a Polish gay advocacy magazine, Replika, which has received some U.S. funding and other help. "We are used to struggling and not finding any support."
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Ping!
How soon will bh0 send an openly gay ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, or Turkey?
It’s a method of population control.
Or deny them aid because they refuse to legalize gay marriage. Excellent point!
At what point do we admit that our country has become a force for evil in the world?
Makes me want to vomit.
“Under Obama we export homosexuality and perversion. And in doing so indirectly continue to support the plague that is HIV/AIDS.”
We used to be such a great country... once a force for good. We’re not those things anymore. God gave America incredible blessings, and it’s people over the years crapped all over them.
“Under Obama we export homosexuality and perversion. And in doing so indirectly continue to support the plague that is HIV/AIDS.”
We used to be such a great country... once a force for good. We’re not those things anymore. God gave America incredible blessings, and it’s people over the years crapped all over them.
My outrage meter broke 8 scandals ago....
Is Barack Obama Gay?
http://hillbuzz.org/is-barack-obama-gay
What surprises me, is how quickly it went in the toilet.
It looks to me at least equally likely to be “childish” as “gay” behavior. Barack is a Peter Pan figure, never having really grown up and not attempting to do so either. To him, America and indeed the world is a “neat toy.”
I see lots of inconclusive innuendo and gossip. I think the answer right now, unsatisfying though it may be, is that “only his barber knows for sure” and that there are other likely explanations of why he bestows such favor on the “gay” crowd.
And one thing I really hope that we would be above doing, is presumptuously hounding Barack to “come out of the closet.”
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