Joe.My.God. LGBT News
An Islamist murdered a French priest earlier this week, so of course KKK-affiliated hate group leader Tony Perkins exploits the killing to slam the president and Hillary Clinton on LGBT rights. Via press release:
After Tuesday morning’s murder — the latest in a string of small-town attacks — the White House did manage to release a statement through a spokesman for the National Security Council that insisted: “France and the United States share a commitment to protecting religious liberty for those of all faiths, and today’s violence will not shake that commitment.” That sounds good, yet — as the Apostle James said — “Do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?”
The NSC’s words ring hollow when you look at the State Department’s priorities in its foreign policies. Under a new brand of “diplomacy” that started under Secretary Hillary Clinton (and continues under John Kerry), State officials have repeatedly strong-armed countries on LGBT rights despite many nations’ moral and religious objections. By 2011, the State Department had all but morphed into a satellite office for the radical Human Rights Campaign.
While the military was struggling to keep up with the threats, the Obama administration had launched another offensive: Operation International Tolerance. In a major U-turn from the Bush years, the Obama administration began initiating “anti-discrimination” resolutions to strong-arm the world into embracing pro-LGBT policies.
Secretary Hillary Clinton was already knee-deep in her goodwill tour for abortion when she agreed to start lecturing other nations about the need to endorse homosexuality and transgenderism. By the end of her four years at the helm of the State Department, Clinton was most remembered — not for improving the relations with key leaders, but her bullying approach to social extremism. “Gay rights,” she argued on a global stage in 2011, are “human rights.”
Meanwhile, her actions — and the actions of the entire administration — on behalf of persecuted Christians have been both reluctant and infrequent. Part of that blame lies with the president’s constant coddling of Islam and frequent criticism of Christianity. When combined with their abject foreign policy failures, both have put religious liberty at risk here and abroad.
After all, it was under Clinton’s watch that the Ambassador at-Large for Religious Freedom position sat empty. And while the Secretary can’t appoint that person, he or she can certainly advocate its importance — something the Democratic nominee for president never did for the first two years of Obama’s term.
Not surprisingly, the situation dramatically worsened under Clinton’s watch — since the elevation of sexual politics came almost exclusively at the expense of religious freedom. After eight years of chipping away at our First Freedom, we must demand that the next administration place a priority on both religious freedom and national security — which, as we saw yesterday in France, is closely related indeed.