The Trump Administration is apparently pushing on the "diplomatic" front against countries that have criminalized homosexuality, to get them to change their internal policies.
Which sounds great except:
1. The focus is on Muslim countries, as part of Trump's general demonization of Islam. Non-Muslim countries with problematic records around gay rights — like, say, Russia — are not being targeted.
2. Trump's administration is acting unilaterally, eschewing multilateral efforts against such laws. Because, of course, the US doesn't want to be seen hobnobbing with the interests of other other nations.
3. None of this seems to be affecting Trump's domestic policy, which is around marginalizing LGBTQ* rights, banning transfolk from the military, encouraging "religious freedom" exemptions to discriminate against gay people, rolling back previous administration protections, etc.
In other words, it's anti-Islamic rhetoric, hypocritically framed as civil liberty protections.
Trump administration on decriminalizing homosexuality: Do as we say, not as we do
The administration voted previously against a U.N. resolution condemning the use of the death penalty to punish homosexuality.
