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Kerry apologizes for State Department discrimination against LGBT employees
CNN ^ | January 9, 2017 | By Theodore Schleifer and Laura Koran

Posted on 01/09/2017 6:56:04 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

(CNN)The State Department on Monday formally apologized for what it describes as decades of discrimination against LGBT employees and job applicants, a rare statement meant to right wrongs that preceded current Secretary of State John Kerry.

"These actions were wrong then, just as they would be wrong today," Kerry said in a statement issued by the department in his name. "On behalf of the Department, I apologize to those who were impacted by the practices of the past."

Kerry has been under pressure in recent weeks to issue a public apology.

In November, Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat who is the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote a letter to Kerry, published by the Washington Blade, asking that he "take steps to remedy a deep stain on our national history and that of the State Department itself: The legacy of the so-called 'lavender scare' in which hundreds of State Department employees were dismissed from service because of their perceived sexual orientation. . ."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bencardin; communistgoals; cultureofcorruption; hedonism; homofascism; homosexualagenda; johnfnkerry; johnkerry; kerry; lavendermafia; lavenderscare; perversion; revisionisthistory; sexpositiveagenda; slipperyslope; sodomandgomorrah; soskerry
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1 posted on 01/09/2017 6:56:04 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Kerry is yet another queer in search of a TOP!


2 posted on 01/09/2017 6:57:52 PM PST by MagUSNRET
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To: Brad from Tennessee

NOT, I REPEAT NOT A “STAIN”, YOU LYING FREAK!!!! Back when America had morals, sodomites were ripe for BLACKMAIL!!!


3 posted on 01/09/2017 6:58:58 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: Brad from Tennessee

More faggotry.


4 posted on 01/09/2017 6:59:27 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I’ll be glad that after 8 damn years of FAGGOT this, FAGGOT that, these pukes will shut up. That’s all this regime talked about...homos. Not jobs, defense, border...just homofag crap.


5 posted on 01/09/2017 7:00:24 PM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: MagUSNRET

So we should have a tranny as next ambassador to Saudi I suppose?

Once again, the Obama team more concerned about genitalia than advancing American interest.


6 posted on 01/09/2017 7:01:33 PM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

How about that whole Hiroshima and Nagasaki thing and the way Seward cheated the Russians out of Alaska?


7 posted on 01/09/2017 7:02:26 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Frank_2001

Ben Cardin is calling this a “lavender scare”, these same pinkos were supportive of the hard left pro-Communist stooges, claiming the “red scare” was hysteria over no threat or interal subversive influence.

FUJK


8 posted on 01/09/2017 7:02:29 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: phoneman08

That’s right. We are supposed to be more concerned with genitalia, and how the owner of genitalia uses same, than with any other issues.


9 posted on 01/09/2017 7:03:35 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Brad from Tennessee

There is something queer about Kerry’s comments.


10 posted on 01/09/2017 7:04:49 PM PST by Herodes
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Makes you wonder why Hillary didn’t jump on that loose ball during the general.


11 posted on 01/09/2017 7:05:34 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MagUSNRET

LMFAO!


12 posted on 01/09/2017 7:06:40 PM PST by SirLurkedalot (10/10/51-7/7/16 RIP Dad, I'll be missing you until I cross over to Eternity)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/05/us/clinton-ends-ban-on-security-clearance-for-gay-workers.html


13 posted on 01/09/2017 7:15:43 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Just about he only things democrats haven’t apologized for is their own destructive conduct, their criminal behavior, and the intentional damage they have done to America.


14 posted on 01/09/2017 7:25:02 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Why are democrats obsessed with people’s sex lives?


15 posted on 01/09/2017 7:41:12 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The horse-faced ‘RAT apologizing for all of the other ‘RATS. LOL.


16 posted on 01/09/2017 7:42:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (As long as tyranny exists, the Constitution and Bill of Right will never be "outdated" or "obsolete")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

When does Lurch apologize for the discrimination against Vietnam Veterans he caused with his lies before the Fulbright Commission?


17 posted on 01/09/2017 7:44:20 PM PST by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"take steps to remedy a deep stain on our national history and that of the State Department itself: The legacy of the so-called 'lavender scare' in which hundreds of State Department employees were dismissed from service because of their perceived sexual orientation. . ."

You can call it sexual orientation if you want... but it's actually sexual perversion that God calls an abomination.

18 posted on 01/09/2017 8:00:58 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: max americana

and Racism. Don’t forget the Racism.
This Dumbass can’t be gone quick enough for me.


19 posted on 01/09/2017 8:02:26 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: a fool in paradise
Lavender scare

Connections between gay rights groups and so-called subversive elements were not entirely baseless. The Mattachine Society, one of the earliest gay rights groups in the United States, was founded by Harry Hay, a former member of the Communist Party USA, who resigned when the membership condemned his politics as a threat to the organization he had founded.

20 posted on 01/09/2017 8:04:57 PM PST by Fedora
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