ENDANGERING MINORITIES
State Ambassador warned of
backlashes
“Now they have unleashed cultural
terrorism on us.”
Senior State Department Deputy
Ambassador Richard Hoagland warned his audience at Johns Hopkins School of
Advanced International Studies in 2014 about the cost of aggressively pushing
the LGBT agenda.
“There are times and places where
I believe we need to temper our idealism with at least a certain degree of
realpolitik.”
“...We should never forget the
terribly important maxim, ‘First do no harm."... “There are countries in
the world, whether religiously or culturally deeply conservative, that will
react to our goals with backlash against their own LGBT citizens.”
“We should maintain enough
humility to remember that we are terribly new at promoting LGBT human rights as
U.S.
foreign policy...."
FIRST HAND EXPERIENCE
Shortly after the assassinations
of Pakistani Governor, Taseer and Minority Minister Bahti and the killing of
Osama bin Laden in June of 2011, the
U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, held its first-ever LGBT “Pride Celebration.” One of
many US sponsored GLIFFA events held across the middle east during the Obama
administration.
Hoagland, a homosexual, and then
the number two diplomat at the mission, co-hosted the USAID, and GILFAA
event,(Gays and Lesbians in Foreign Affairs Agencies.)
A week later, anti-U.S. Protestors
in Pakistan
described the event as an act of "Cultural Terrorism."
DIVIDING THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Obama's State Department, then
headed by Hillary Clinton, made LGBT rights America's top priority in global
foreign affairs, as we co-sponsored the first-ever resolution adopted by the
U.N. on the human rights of LGBT people. During her U.N. Geneva speech in
December 2011, she alluded to what would be coming next, stating:
"Because Governments impose
Laws, and Laws have a teaching effect, religious beliefs and cultural values do
not justify the failure of governments to promote, (through teaching laws), the
full rights of LGBT people.
Although the U.S.
sponsored measure was passed by 23-19
votes in the U.N., it split the council between Western and Latin American
countries on one side and Muslim and African members on the other.
Above Information from:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/state-dep-t-official-warns-backlash-promoting-lgbt-rights-abroad
REMOVING ALL SANCTUARY
According to a Pew study,
Christians face religious persecution in more countries than any other
religious group as Christians often experience retaliation, serving as
stand-ins for western power and values.
For more than a decade, extremists
have targeted Christians and other minorities, ...This was especially true in Iraq after the U.S. invasion, which caused
hundreds of thousands to flee. ‘‘Since 2003, we’ve lost priests, bishops and
more than 60 churches were bombed,’’ Bashar Warda, the Chaldean Catholic
archbishop of Erbil , said. With the fall of
Saddam Hussein, Christians began to leave Iraq in large numbers, and the
population shrank to less than 500,000 today from as many as 1.5 million in
2003.
The Arab Spring only made things
worse. As dictators like Mubarak in Egypt
and Qaddafi in Libya
were toppled, their longstanding protection of minorities also ended. Now, ISIS is looking to eradicate Christians and other
minorities altogether. ...Recently, ISIS
posted videos delineating the second-class status of Christians in the
caliphate. Those unwilling to pay the jizya tax or to convert would be
destroyed, the narrator warned, as the videos culminated in the now-infamous
scenes of Egyptian and Ethiopian Christians in Libya being marched onto the
beach and beheaded, their blood running into the surf.
The future of Christianity in the
region of its birth is now uncertain. ‘‘How much longer can we flee before we
and other minorities become a story in a history book?’’ says Nuri Kino, a
journalist and founder of the advocacy group Demand for Action.......
source:
see Hillary's full U.N. speech at:
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