Current Events > Every member of Trumps new human rights commission is an anti-LGBTQ activist

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PleaseClap
07/21/19 8:10:12 PM
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Do you think that the Trump Administration is anti-LGBTQ? - Results (19 votes)
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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/07/every-member-trumps-new-human-rights-commission-anti-lgbtq-activist/

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced a new commission that he said will decide which human rights are more important to U.S. foreign policy. And hes stacked it with anti-LGBTQ activists.

The new Commission on Unalienable Rights will answer questions like What does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right? and How do we know or how do we determine whether that claim that this or that is a human right, is it true, and therefore, ought it to be honored?

Pompeo said that the commission would conduct one of the most profound reexaminations of the unalienable rights in the world since the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The group will focus, he said, on natural law.

Natural law is a philosophical thought that says that certain rights are inherent to being human, usually endowed by God, insisting that universal moral truths can be arrived at by examining religious texts or an imagined state of nature. Natural law as a concept is often used by the right to argue against womens and LGBTQ peoples rights.

Senator Robert Menendez (D) noted that Pompeo didnt pick State Department employees who work on human rights to staff the commission, instead picking former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Mary Ann Glendon to head it.

Glendon is a conservative law professor who writes forcefully against the expansion of abortion rights. She called marriage equality a bid for special preferences that will suggest that alternative family forms are just as good as a husband and wife raising kids together.

Peter Berkowitz
Criticized the Supreme Courts 2003 ruling overturning sodomy laws as dangerous, writing that Justice Kennedys majority opinion seemed to follow the logic of his moral and political judgments rather than the logic of the law.

Mary Ann Glendon (Chair)
Has written extensively on her view that marriage equality is a radical social experiment that harms children. She also recently wrote a blurb for a viciously anti-trans book, calling the bookwhich culminates in a plan of action that calls for the complete erasure of trans people eminently readable and insightful.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson
Lectured that his belief is for Muslims to repress being gay, and that homosexuality and same-sex marriage are prophesized as one of the signs of the End Times.

Jacqueline Rivers
Delivered a speech at the Vatican, insisting that LGBTQ activists were abolishing in law the principle of marriage as a conjugal union and reducing it to nothing other than sexual or romantic partnerships or domestic companionship. She went on insist that LGBTQ activists have unjustly appropriated civil rights language.

Meir Soloveichik
Called the notion of gay peoples marriages nonsensical; he went on to suggest that arguments favoring bestiality will follow same-sex marriage. Also, blurbed an anti-LGBTQ book written by the National Organization For Marriages co-founder.

Christopher Tollefsen
Wrote an anti-trans essay that culminated in the opinion that attempts to change ones biological sex all fail. That is an undefeatable reason against trying to do so. In a follow up, he further argued that it is a mark of a heartless culture that it encourages such confusion even to the point of encouraging bodily mutilation as a solution to gender dysphoria and prohibiting therapy that might be psychologically and spiritually beneficial.

F. Cartwright Weiland (Rapporteur)
Served as policy analyst for the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, an anti-LGBTQ think thank that advised the Texas legislature and Governors office; also served as speechwriter to anti-LGBTQ US Senator John Cornyn.


Seems really bad to me.
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PleaseClap
07/21/19 8:47:42 PM
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For an administration that claims to be pro lgbtq, I wonder why it keeps putting people like this in positions of power

Really makes you think
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hyperpsycho
07/21/19 8:49:15 PM
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There is no hope for the future.
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hockeybub89
07/21/19 8:51:33 PM
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PleaseClap posted...
She called marriage equality a bid for special preferences

You fucking what, mate?
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UnfairRepresent
07/21/19 8:52:20 PM
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PleaseClap posted...

Criticized the Supreme Courts 2003 ruling overturning sodomy laws as dangerous,

iRYso92

Government so small you can fit in your asshole.
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Gafemage
07/21/19 8:53:02 PM
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hyperpsycho posted...
There is no hope for the future.

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PleaseClap
07/21/19 8:56:16 PM
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hockeybub89 posted...
PleaseClap posted...
She called marriage equality a bid for special preferences

You fucking what, mate?

They aren't hiring the best people
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hockeybub89
07/21/19 8:57:32 PM
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PleaseClap posted...
hockeybub89 posted...
PleaseClap posted...
She called marriage equality a bid for special preferences

You fucking what, mate?

They aren't hiring the best people

America doesn't send its best.
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Ryuko_Chan
07/21/19 8:58:10 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
PleaseClap posted...

Criticized the Supreme Courts 2003 ruling overturning sodomy laws as dangerous,

iRYso92

Government so small you can fit in your asshole.

X fucking D
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hyperpsycho
07/21/19 9:09:54 PM
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I can imagine marriage equality being taken away. I can even see the sodomy laws coming back. I hope that won't happen but things look bleak right now.
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TheVipaGTS
07/21/19 9:11:57 PM
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Fuckin hell this administration is garbage.
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Zodd3224
07/21/19 9:22:37 PM
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I for one am SHOCKED
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tremain07
07/21/19 9:26:01 PM
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Gay Marriage is so gone if Trump wins a second term, remember in history it's always proven that presidents get more bold with their power in the second term because they don't have to worry about re-elections. Why, I'd even be so bold as to expect them to remove more civil rights protections under the guise of saying it's not needed anymore
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masterpug53
07/21/19 9:27:14 PM
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Just a sad, grim reminder that rights are never truly inalienable, and those in power can and do strip them away when they're needed the most.
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Gafemage
07/21/19 9:29:05 PM
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Gamerguymass
07/21/19 9:42:44 PM
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That Tollefsen is the only one that seems sane. At least from the blurbs there. I would imagine if he had said something really awful that example would have been used instead.

I'm sure they will trynto overturn same sex marriage, but I don't think we need to worry anout sodomy laws. Usually the people that bitch about being in favor of them seem to not know or just remember that a blowjob is also considered sodomy. Once that is pointed out to them I'm sure it won't go anywhere.
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DarthAragorn
07/21/19 9:44:37 PM
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Hard to say it isn't

but I also don't think LGBTQ issues should have much impact on foreign policy
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Gamerguymass
07/21/19 9:48:57 PM
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DarthAragorn posted...
Hard to say it isn't

but I also don't think LGBTQ issues should have much impact on foreign policy


It has to do more with if other countries are rounding them up and killing them. Which does happen in some parts of the world. We generally tend to frown upon shit like that these days.
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Extreme_light
07/21/19 10:00:04 PM
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DarthAragorn posted...
Hard to say it isn't

but I also don't think LGBTQ issues should have much impact on foreign policy


I mean when other countries are killing or oppressing people for being gay, it's kinda is part of foreign policy like any other issues. If you have a human rights commision full of current or former anti-LGBT activists then...
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PleaseClap
07/21/19 10:44:55 PM
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DarthAragorn posted...
Hard to say it isn't

but I also don't think LGBTQ issues should have much impact on foreign policy

I forgot that gay people were solely an American phenomenon
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creativerealms
07/21/19 10:49:47 PM
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal then others.
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PleaseClap
07/22/19 12:18:54 PM
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Ving_Rhames
07/22/19 12:19:40 PM
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LOL it just gets dumber and dumber.
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PleaseClap
07/22/19 4:07:37 PM
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Zodd3224 posted...
I for one am SHOCKED

and appalled?
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Freddie_Mercury
07/22/19 4:13:39 PM
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Gamerguymass
07/22/19 4:13:42 PM
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creativerealms posted...
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal then others.


Back to your poker game with you!
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Zodd3224
07/22/19 4:14:52 PM
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PleaseClap posted...
Zodd3224 posted...
I for one am SHOCKED

and appalled?


Everything he says and does is appaling
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PleaseClap
07/22/19 4:30:16 PM
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Freddie_Mercury posted...
flag tho

may we never forget
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pres_madagascar
07/22/19 4:45:37 PM
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Gafemage posted...
hyperpsycho posted...
There is no hope for the future.

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PleaseClap
07/22/19 4:49:41 PM
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CrimsonRage posted...
he was so adamant that trump was a pro-lgbtq president.

how
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LightningAce11
07/22/19 4:50:33 PM
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Is anyone from the admin a good person.

This is basically a sunday morning cartoon now. They're basically the evil bad guys with not one ounce of goof in them.
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DarkChozoGhost
07/22/19 4:52:11 PM
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This is entirely indefensible and nobody that thinks this is ok should ever be given an ounce of respect or credibility.
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A_A_Battery
07/22/19 4:54:30 PM
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M_Live posted...
People who obsess over hating gay/trans people are just fucking bizarre. Who dedicates so much time and energy to what other people do with their genitals and is still able to call themselves sane? It's just bizarre.


LGBTQ is not just what people do with their genitals. It also includes stuff taught at schools.
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pauIie
07/22/19 4:54:47 PM
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they are. there is no fucking "think."
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Medussa
07/22/19 4:56:16 PM
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nearly everyone Trump has appointed has been completely opposite to the position they were appointed to.
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A_A_Battery
07/22/19 5:01:03 PM
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shockthemonkey posted...
A_A_Battery posted...
M_Live posted...
People who obsess over hating gay/trans people are just fucking bizarre. Who dedicates so much time and energy to what other people do with their genitals and is still able to call themselves sane? It's just bizarre.


LGBTQ is not just what people do with their genitals. It also includes stuff taught at schools.

Ah yes, the evil curriculum of LGBTQ people exist and you shouldnt hate them for that


Frame it any way you like. You want to do stuff with your genitals, thats a thing your detractors can leave up to you. But you really expect to teach your detractors children that they can do with their genitals what you did, then wonder why they are obsessing over the matter...?
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Ving_Rhames
07/22/19 5:02:17 PM
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What a weird post
Thats some weird ass shit you just said
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Goats
07/22/19 5:03:36 PM
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Why are there LGBT who still vote for the right?
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A_A_Battery
07/22/19 5:04:45 PM
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Ving_Rhames posted...
What a weird post
Thats some weird ass shit you just said


Yeah when I read my posts after the fact they give me headaches too. Im just saying that the matter is a tad bit more complicated than why do some people care what others do behind closed doors?!
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PleaseClap
07/22/19 5:04:48 PM
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Regular People: 'It's ok to be gay or trans, there's nothing wrong with that"
Homophobes and Transphobes: "It's not ok to be gay or trans, you'll go to hell."

People on CE: "I can't tell which side is right."
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yusiko
07/22/19 5:06:01 PM
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he held a rainbow flag upside down which is a sign of disrespect
anyone who claimed he was pro LGBT was lying
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Ving_Rhames
07/22/19 5:06:44 PM
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Goats posted...
Why are there LGBT who still vote for the right?


Im one of the good ones! Syndrome.
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HylianFox
07/22/19 5:10:34 PM
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but Trump once held an upside-down rainbow flag with "LGBTs for TRUMP" scribbled on it

he's totally an ally
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Medussa
07/22/19 5:11:25 PM
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Goats posted...
Why are there LGBT who still vote for the right?


some of us care about fiscal policy. That being said, my willingness to vote (R) has fallen to basically zero in the last 10 years. doesn't mean I suddenly like the people running as democrats.
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