Obama Administration as Global Advocate for Radical LGBTI Agenda

President Obama has no qualms about using what he perceives as his executive power to do almost anything he feels will promote his agenda. That now includes the exporting of moral collapse around the world. Of course, it is dressed up as some form of new found right.

Robert Reilly is right. The Obama administration is doing profound damage to the very understanding of human rights. We have fundamental human rights precisely because we are human persons. No-one should support the denial of truly fundamental human rights for any human person, including those who self identify as homosexual or lesbian. However, that is a far cry from calling homosexual and lesbian behavior itself to be a fundamental human right. The same administration which seems unwilling to defend the violation of true fundamental human rights, such as the Right to Life and the Right to Religious Freedom, is now a global advocate for a radical LGBTI agenda.

WASHINGTON,DC (Catholic Online) - In a brilliant article written for Mercator.net entitled The Envoy for Sodomy Robert R. Reilly draws necessary attention to another act of the imperial Obama presidency which has gotten little notice in the main stream media.

I felt I should bring this to the attention of the readers of Catholic Online.

On February 23, 2015, the Obama Administration created a heretofore nonexistent governmental position entitled "Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons" and appointed a self-identified, openly practicing homosexual man named Randy Berry to the position.

Usually, the creation of such new positions must come from legislation. An attempt to create such a position through legislation failed in the past. But, as we know, this President is anything but usual.

President Obama has no qualms about using what he perceives as his executive power to do almost anything he feels will promote his agenda. That now includes the exporting of moral collapse around the world.

Of course, it is dressed up as some form of new found right.

This Administration is now promoting a revolutionary social and cultural agenda which includes the dangerous notion that there is some kind of fundamental right to engage in sexual activity with a member of the same sex.

Those Nations which refuse to recognize this newly minted right will be called out in the international arena by the United States of America and accused of violating "human rights".

Secretary of State, John F Kerry, told the Press "I could not be more proud to announce Randy Berry as the first-ever Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBT Persons. Too often, in too many countries, LGBT persons are threatened, jailed, and prosecuted because of who they are or who they love."

So, the Obama administration will now use the substantial resources of the United States to promote the LGBTI agenda internationally.

To put how someone engages in homosexual or lesbian sexual activity on the same level as authentic fundamental human rights is not only bad public policy, it puts the United States at odds with many Nations, and openly rejects the Natural Moral Law. 

Reilly is the author of "Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior is Changing everything". This is a brilliant book which is a must read for anyone conceerned about the moral collapse of the Nation and wants to understand its roots and ramifications.

Below is an excerpt from Reilly's important piece in Mercator.net

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"When did the American people decide that sodomy is up there with the inalienable rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence or in the Bill of Rights? For a little historical perspective, we should recall, as related in the Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) case:

"Sodomy was a criminal offense at common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they ratified the Bill of Rights. In 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified, all but 5 of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy laws. In fact, until 1961, all 50 states outlawed sodomy, and today, 24 states and the District of Columbia continue to provide criminal penalties for sodomy performed in private in between consenting adults."

Why did these laws exist for so long?  Because our inalienable rights rest firmly upon "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God," and sodomy is clearly contrary to those Laws, as it violates the very ends of man's sexual powers, which are unitive and procreative.

Sodomy is an act unfit for either of those ends. Therefore, one cannot claim a natural right to do something that is unnatural. Or as Abraham Lincoln said, one "cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong."

But that, of course, is exactly what the rationalization for homosexual behavior accomplishes, as I explain in Making Gay Okay: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything. It transforms wrong into right. For that rationalization to hold, however, everyone must share in it. The rationalization of sodomy requires its universalization. Everyone must agree that the unreal is the real.

To support itself, unreality must advance, or be advanced upon. Assertions of unreality are always aggressive - not only because they are a negation of something - but because, like Napoleon, they must conquer to survive. We are in the phase of its domestic enforcement now, and Secretary Kerry is preparing for its global enforcement in our foreign-policy, as proudly announced by the LGBT flags flying on the masts of our embassies overseas last June, just under the American flag. The State Department has become the instrument for the global universalization of the rationalization for sodomy.

The problem with this should be self-evident. The promotion of "gay" rights must come at the expense of the promotion of human rights because the two are immiscible. One is founded on the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" and the other on moral relativism, which eviscerates the very idea of natural rights and the natural law on which they are based. If you have one, you cannot have the other. You have your rights by virtue of being a human being, and not by anything else - not ethnicity, not religion, not race, not tribe, not sexual orientation.

Were we to construct such a thing as "gay" rights, we would be eviscerating the foundations of human rights, which have to be universal by definition in order to exist. If one has rights as a "gay" person, but then goes straight, like New York Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife did, what happens to one's "gay" rights then? One does not attain or lose rights in this way.

They are inalienable because one possesses them by virtue of one's human nature - not due to any other specificity. Either they exist at that level, or they do not exist at all. If someone, like Kerry, tries to appropriate human rights for something that applies to less than everyone, then you may be sure that they are undermining the very notion of human rights. This is the profound damage that the Obama administration and Secretary Kerry are doing to human rights in order to foist the rationalization for sodomy on everyone.

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Robert Reilly is right. The Obama administration is doing profound damage to the very understanding of human rights. We have fundamental human rights precisely because we are human persons. No-one should support the denial of truly fundamental human rights for any human person, including those who self identify as homosexual or lesbian.

However, that is a far cry from calling homosexual and lesbian behavior itself to be a new fundamental human right. The same administration which seems unwilling to defend the violation of true fundamental human rights, such as the Right to Life and the Right to Religious Freedom, is now a global advocate for a radical LGBTI agenda.

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Keith A. Fournier is Founder and Chairman of Common Good Foundation and Common Good Alliance. A married Roman Catholic Deacon of the Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, he and his wife Laurine have five grown children and seven grandchildren. He is a human rights lawyer and public policy advocate who served as the first and founding Executive Director of the American Center for Law and Justice in the nineteen nineties and has long been active at the intersection of faith and culture. He serves as Special Counsel to Liberty Counsel. He is a senior contributing writer to The Stream.

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