U.S. Government Works to Normalize LGBT World-Wide

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, August 26, 2011
By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Good morning, Jim. In April 2010 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted an amendment to fight LGBT inequality around the world. LGBT is short for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. The law calls on U.S. embassies to work to reform or repeal laws overseas that criminalize homosexuality. That must be the reason Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in a speech last winter, urged federal employees to tell teenagers it’s okay to be gay.

On June 15th this year, the Obama administration gave $250,000 to a Chicago organization to create the first resource center in the U.S. to resettle LGBT refugees. That organization will provide sensitivity training and develop orientation materials for use across the country.

On June 28th this year, charges were added to the case against Houston’s VA Cemetery, where government officials prohibit prayer and religious speech in burial rites … unless the family submits the prayer or message in writing to the director for her approval. Also, government officials instructed a Houston funeral home to stop telling families they could request prayer at VFW burials. The cemetery director will not allow the words “God,” “Jesus,” and “God Bless” to be written in sympathy cards to families and banned volunteers from speaking religious messages directly to veterans’ families on cemetery grounds.

On July 14th this year, California became the first state to require public school textbooks to include and identify the accomplishments of gay, lesbian, and transgenders, including transvestites. The vote was straight down party lines – 49 Democrats voted yes, 25 Republicans voted no – and the governor signed the bill into law. Republicans voted no because the law writes the homosexual agenda into school textbooks. If parents object, they have to take their children out of school. Opt-out is not an option.

It’s troubling that elected officials are determined to defy parents and undermine children’s morals in order to promote a political agenda whose goal is to normalize the sexual inclinations of three-percent of the population. For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.