Because there is no other important business to attend to, over a hundred Congress-drones have petitioned the State Department to force other countries to accept gay marriage.
One hundred and twenty-five members of Congress asked Secretary of State John Kerry in a letter Monday to deny visas to diplomats’ spouses if the envoys come from a country that doesn’t recognize same-sex spouses of State Department personnel.
The lawmakers who wrote Kerry on Monday argued that countries which don’t recognize spouses of gay foreign service officers “hamper the professional growth” of the diplomats and “threaten the Department’s ability to ensure that it can place the best, most qualified person in each position.”
“We cannot look the other way when an American diplomatic spouse — any American diplomatic spouse — is discriminated against in this way… In countries that maintain legalized forms of racism, sexism, or other types of bias, we believe the State Department should take a proactive role in demonstrating America’s deep commitment to equality, dignity, and diversity,” they continued.
Among the petitioners are the many of same Democrats who insist it would be wrong to tie foreign aid to market and political reforms, because that would be “imposing American values on other cultures.” The folks also believe that it’s wrong to expect foreigners who immigrate to the USA to assimilate into our culture, or even learn our language.
But, what the hell, the Obama-Kerry State Department decided a long time ago that pandering to Lesbian Gay Bullying Totalitarians (LGBT) in the USA was a far more important mission than representing American interests around the world.
On a related note, the political appointment of dim-but-well-connected Democrat to the post of US Ambassador to Japan has worked out about as well as … frankly, as when a dim-but-well-connected Democrat hack was put in charge of the Office of Personnel Management and now some Chinese hackers have my SF-84 … which is as conservatives predicted it would.
“Because there is no other important business to attend to, over a hundred Congress-drones have petitioned the State Department to force other countries to accept gay marriage.”
Did the 2-3%ers within the US Congress just wake up? Was that not to be the policy of the Obama and Romney US State Department? Some countries apparently refuse to be financially extorted to impose homosexual marriage and adoption by the US State Department……
Well at least they care about the borders for something.
So here we are acting as a colonial power imposing our values on our betters (US citizens being awful people and all). Didn’t the left use to bitch about this sort of thing?
@ KCRob: The Left is like the lady in your neighborhood who kicks up a storm about anybody who keeps dogs because she thinks every dog is a mauling waiting to happen, and who casts aspersions on people for not growing rhododendrons in their garden because rhodos are her favorite flowers and she wants to see them everywhere.
There could be a residual benefit from denying visas to anti gay marriage governments. That means muslims radical or not would be denied entrance into the U.S. It might keep or drastically reduce the number of jihadist terrorists entering the country. Those that do arrive will have done so as an illegal, walking across the border.