{"id":137884,"date":"2019-02-20T22:55:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/a-good-cause-for-an-awful-reason.html"},"modified":"2019-02-20T22:55:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T05:55:58","slug":"a-good-cause-for-an-awful-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/a-good-cause-for-an-awful-reason.html","title":{"rendered":"A good cause for an awful reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Trump Administration is apparently pushing on the "diplomatic" front against countries that have criminalized homosexuality, to get them to change their internal policies.<\/p>\n

Which sounds great except:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In other words, it's anti-Islamic rhetoric, hypocritically framed as civil liberty protections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nTrump administration on decriminalizing homosexuality: Do as we say, not as we do<\/a><\/span>
\nThe administration voted previously against a U.N. resolution condemning the use of the death penalty to punish homosexuality.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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 … Continue reading “A good cause for an awful reason”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133009,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/09\/same-ban-second-verse.html","url_meta":{"origin":137884,"position":0},"title":"Same ban, second verse","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Mar-17 5:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have to give the Trump Administration credit for slipping it's Muslim-ish Ban 2.0 in behind the much more newsworthy Obamacare Lite announcements on Monday. 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