{"id":92451,"date":"2019-07-09T16:25:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/glaad-issues-new-report-on-anti-lgbtq-activists-leading-state-departments-new-commission-on-unalienable-rights\/"},"modified":"2019-07-09T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T20:25:35","slug":"glaad-issues-new-report-on-anti-lgbtq-activists-leading-state-departments-new-commission-on-unalienable-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/glaad-issues-new-report-on-anti-lgbtq-activists-leading-state-departments-new-commission-on-unalienable-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"GLAAD Issues New Report on Anti-LGBTQ Activists Leading State Department\u2019s New \u201cCommission on Unalienable Rights\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

GLAAD Issues New Report on Anti-LGBTQ Activists Leading State Department\u2019s New \u201cCommission on Unalienable Rights\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

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GLAAD CEO: \u201cThis \u2018Commission\u2019 is a farce and further illustrates the bold-faced anti-LGBTQ agenda of this administration\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cCommission of Unalienable Rights\u201d is the 117th<\/sup>\u00a0attack against LGBTQ Americans since start of the Trump Administration<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 GLAAD, the world\u2019s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released a new report highlighting the records of the anti-LGBTQ activists appointed to serve on the U.S. State Department\u2019s new \u201cCommission on Unalienable Rights.\u201d\u00a0According to reports<\/a>, the \u201cCommission\u201d will provide the federal government \u201can informed review of the role of human rights in American foreign policy\u201d \u2013 putting LGBTQ acceptance at risk on a global scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis \u2018Commission\u2019 is a farce and further illustrates the bold-faced anti-LGBTQ agenda of this administration,\u201dsaid Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD<\/strong>. \u00a0\u201dThe Trump Administration is knowingly appointing activists who have made careers out of fighting against LGBTQ progress and is now providing them an opportunity to export their anti-LGBTQ activism around the world through the U.S. State Department.\u201d<\/p>\n

GLAAD\u2019s new report dug into the records of the ten members appointed to serve on the State Department\u2019s Commission and found troubling, anti-LGBTQ history in seven of its members. The Commission includes members like Mary Ann Glendon, a longtime anti-LGBTQ activist who claimed marriage equality was a \u201cradical social experiment<\/a>,\u201d and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson, who claimed marriage equality was \u201cone of the signs of the End Times<\/a>.\u201d The launch of the \u201cCommission on Unalienable Rights\u201d now marks the 117th<\/sup>\u00a0attack against the LGBTQ community by the Trump Administration since the start of 2017.<\/p>\n

GLAAD REPORT: Anti-LGBTQ Members of the State Department\u2019s New \u201c<\/u><\/strong>Commission on Unalienable Rights\u201d<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Peter Berkowitz<\/strong>
\u2014\u00a0Criticized<\/a>\u00a0the Supreme Court\u2019s 2003 ruling overturning sodomy laws as \u201cdangerous,\u201d writing that \u201cJustice Kennedy’s majority opinion seemed to follow the logic of his moral and political judgments rather than the logic of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary Ann Glendon (Chair)<\/strong>
\u2014\u00a0Has written extensively<\/a>\u00a0on her view that marriage equality is a \u201cradical social experiment\u201d that harms children. She alsorecently wrote a blurb<\/a>\u00a0for a viciously anti-trans<\/a> book, calling the book\u2014which culminates in a plan of action that calls<\/a> for the complete erasure of trans<\/a> people \u2014\u201ceminently readable and insightful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson<\/strong>
\u2014\u00a0Lectured<\/a>\u00a0that his belief is for Muslims to repress being gay<\/a>, and (at 3:23) that homosexuality and same-sex<\/a> marriage are prophesized as \u201cone of the signs of the End Times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacqueline Rivers<\/strong>
\u2014\u00a0Delivered<\/a>\u00a0a speech at the Vatican, insisting that LGBTQ activists were \u201cabolishing in law the principle of marriage as a conjugal union and reducing it to nothing other than sexual or romantic partnerships or domestic companionship.\u201d She went on insist that LGBTQ activists have \u201cunjustly appropriated\u201d civil rights language.<\/p>\n

Meir Soloveichik<\/strong>
\u2014\u00a0Called<\/a>\u00a0the notion of gay<\/a> people\u2019s marriages \u201cnonsensical\u201d (see page 71<\/em>); he went on to suggest that arguments favoring bestiality will follow same-sex<\/a> marriage (page 72<\/em>); Also,\u00a0blurbed<\/a>\u00a0an anti-LGBTQ book written by the National Organization For Marriage\u2019s cofounder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christopher Tollefsen<\/strong>
\u2014\u00a0Wrote an anti-trans essay<\/a>\u00a0that culminated in the opinion that \u201c…attempts to change one\u2019s biological sex<\/a> all fail. That is an undefeatable reason against trying to do so.\u201d In\u00a0a follow up<\/a>, he further argued that \u201c…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.\u201d<\/p>\n

F. Cartwright Weiland (Rapporteur)<\/strong>
\u2014\u00a0Served<\/a>\u00a0as policy analyst for the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, an anti-LGBTQ think thank that advised the Texas legislature and Governor\u2019s office; also served as speechwriter to anti-LGBTQ US Senator John Cornyn.<\/p>\n

LGBTQ acceptance has been threatened by President Trump and his administration since the start of 2017. Not only has President Trump\u00a0banned transgender Americans<\/a>\u00a0from serving in the nation\u2019s armed forces, but his administration has also\u00a0opposed the Equality Act<\/a>, a bill which would provide across-the-board protections for LGBTQ Americans at home, at work, and in their communities. A full list of the Trump Administration\u2019s anti-LGBTQ actions can be found by going to GLAAD\u2019s\u00a0Trump Accountability Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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