By Wendy Wright
NEW YORK, NY (C-FAM) – The citizens of several countries are pushing back against
President Obama’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender foreign policy
imperative. Leaders in El Salvador launched a website on “Obama’s
Corrupting Foreign Policy” and are asking the U.S. Senate to reject
Obama’s nominee for ambassador to their country.
President Obama announced in December
that the promotion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
behavior is a top foreign policy priority, even for the U.S. military
overseas. At the same time, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a
high-profile speech at the UN equating LGBT status with religion. The
State Department told oambassadors worldwide to recognize “gay pride
month,” and it released a list of “accomplishments” including the fact that a U.S. ambassador had published an OpEd promoting the LGBT agenda on behalf of the United States .
Mari Carmen Aponte, a temporary ambassador to El Salvador, published
an essay conflating disapproval of homosexuality with “brutal hostility”
and “aggression” by “those who promote hatred.” It is Salvadorans’
“responsibility” to become advocates for LGBT issues and “to inform our
neighbors and friends about what it means to be lesbian, gay, bisexual
or transgender,” she wrote. The OpEd ran in a major Salvadoran newspaper
in June, igniting a firestorm by offended citizens.
More than three-dozen leaders in Latin American countries rebuked
the ambassador. In a declaration in a Salvadoran newspaper, they accused
the U.S. representative of “disregarding our profound Christian values,
rooted in natural law,” by trying to “impose. . . a new vision of
foreign and bizarre values, completely alien to our moral fiber,
intending to disguise this as ‘human rights’” with “an air of
superiority.” The only thing they agreed with, they stated, is that
violence should be repudiated “just the same as against skinny, fat,
tall or short” people.
The leaders also sent a letter to U.S. Senators protesting Aponte’s
appointment. At a congressional hearing in December, Senator Jim DeMint
read their complaint and criticized Aponte’s “presuming to represent the
views of all Americans” in her OpEd. “I would like to apologize to the
Salvadoran people on behalf of the United States and reassure them that
most Americans share their values,” DeMint said.
Salvadorans perceived that the assault extended beyond Aponte and launched a website exposing “Obama’s Corrupting Foreign Policies.” It chronicles the campaign by US officials to promote homosexuality, and the counter-campaign by Latin Americans.
The Washington Times published a
letter from Latin American leaders warning that the aggressive promotion
of homosexual rights constitutes a “war on religion.” The Obama
administration has placed people in other countries “on the front
lines,” the letter said, and is “demeaning our culture and insulting our
values.” The leaders wrote, “We support the legitimate human rights of
all our citizens. We do not support made up ‘homosexual rights’. We do
not appreciate the ambassador from another country coming in and
preaching to us. We intend to defend our moral values and preserve our
families.”
In Pakistan, the US embassy hosted an LGBT “pride celebration” in June which provoked protests in several cities. A leader of one of the rallies said,
“America has unleashed a storm of immoral values” and “we’ll resist at
all costs.” The U.S. ambassador to Serbia promoted a homosexual rights
march in that country last October which led to riots with an explicitly anti-Western tone.
Wendy Wright writes for C-FAM. This article first appeared in the Friday Fax, an
internet report published weekly by C-FAM (Catholic Family & Human
Rights Institute), a New York and Washington DC-based research institute
(http://www.c-fam.org/). This article appears with permission.
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