The State Department’s controversial human rights advisory commission on Thursday released its long-anticipated report. The Commission on Unalienable Rights’ 60-page report contains numerous references to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and religious freedom.
The report refers to marriage rights for same-sex couples, affirmative action and abortion as “divisive social and political controversies in the United States” and how “it is common for both sides to couch their claims in terms of basic rights.” “Indeed, it is a testament to the deep roots in the American spirit of our founding ideas about unalienable rights that our political debates continue to revolve around the concepts of individual freedom and human equality, even as