Tag: Commission on Unalienable Rights
A government commission headed by an anti-LGBTQ activist will ‘reevaluate’ human rights
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a new commission that he said will decide which human rights are more important to U.S. foreign policy.
The new Commission on Unalienable Rights will answer questions like “What does it mean to say or claim that something is, in fact, a human right?” and “How do we know or how do we determine whether that claim that this or that is a human right, is it true, and therefore, ought it to be...
The Trump administration will launch a human rights panel that stresses antigay ‘natural law’
The State Department announced that it will be launching a new advisory panel that will stress human rights in the context of “natural law.”
In contemporary politics, “natural law” is associated with conservative Christianity, especially opposition to reproductive and LGBTQ rights. Anti-LGBTQ activists use the phrase constantly to justify opposing basic human rights.
The State Department published a notice to create the Commission on Unalienable Rights. The notice says that the Commission “will provide the Secretary of State advice and recommendations...
