Thank you for your note. I just contacted my member of Congress through “back channels” to make sure this actually gets seen directly by someone who can do something about it.
If this is true, considering the long history of Republican support for Israel, opposition to homosexual activism, and support for fiscal frugality, it seems like this would be a good target for Republican wrath.
Muslim rioters are attacking our embassy personnel claiming an anti-Islamic film was broadcast on “American state television.” Obviously no such thing exists. However, this **IS** an example of the State Department funding things which are offensive to conservative followers of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Even from a purely secular perspective, it seems to me that this has considerable potential to offend people for no good reason, and therefore is a poor use of American diplomatic dollars.
Apparently this is not an aberration. It may be part of a deliberate effort to use homosexuals to help nations like Israel gain credibility for being “liberal” and “modern” in contradistinction to radical Islam, and therefore bolster support for Israel among Western liberals, as well as secular pro-homosexual conservatives (of which there are many in Europe, the modern Netherlands being a notorious example).
It is not news that there are people in Israel who practice triangulation politics, that the enemy of your enemy, even if he's not your friend, may be useful. The Israeli political establishment includes masters of that kind of thing, and I admire them for it.
Okay, I get it. Maybe this is helpful to Israel. If they want to use their tax dollars to promote this kind of thing, that's their business. If I were a member of the Israeli Knesset, I'd have some hard questions, but perhaps I could be convinced.
However, why should American tax dollars be supporting this kind of stuff overseas?